Song Analysis 7 (Stay bySugarland)

"Stay"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPG1n1B0Ydw 

I've been sitting here staring at the clock on the wall                                                        And I've been laying here praying, praying she won't call            
 It's just another call from home                                                                
And you'll get it and be gone                                                                                      
And I'll be crying                                                                                          

And I'll be begging you, baby            imagery                                                                    
Beg you not to leave                                                                               
But I'll be left here waiting                                                                                       
With my Heart on my sleeve               metaphor                                                                     
Oh, for the next time we'll be here                                                                                       
Seems like a million years                                                                                       
And I think I'm dying                                                                                        
What do I have to do to make you see                                                                             
She can't love you like me?                                                                                       
Why don't you stay                                                                                  
I'm down on my knees                                                                                              
I'm so tired of being lonely                                                                                              
Don't I give you what you need                                                                                        
When she calls you to go                                                                                          
There is one thing you should know                                                                                   
We don't have to live this way                                                                                       
Baby, why don't you stay                                                                                         
You keep telling me, baby                                                                                        
There will come a time                                                                                          
When you will leave her arms                                                                                  
And forever be in mine                                                                                          
But I don't think that's the truth                                                                                        
And I don't like being used and I'm tired of waiting                                                             
It's too much pain to have to bear                                                               
To love a man you have to share                                                                           

Why don't you stay                                                                                    
I'm down on my knees                                                                               
I'm so tired of being lonely                                                                            
Don't I give you what you need                                                                              
When she calls you to go                                                                                
There is one thing you should know                                                                              
We don't have to live this way                                                                                  
Baby, why don't you stay                                                                                      
I can't take it any longer                                                                                
But my will is getting stronger                                                                         
And I think I know just what I have to do                                                                       
I can't waste another minute                                                                           
After all that I've put in it                                                                                 
I've given you my best                                                                               
Why does she get the best of you                                                                             
So next time you find you wanna leave her bed for mine                                                        

Why don't you stay                                                                                   
I'm up off my knees                                                                                  
I'm so tired of being lonely                                                                                 
You can't give me what I need                                                                                   
When she begs you not to go                                                                                 
There is one thing you should know                                                                           
I don't have to live this way                                                                              
Baby, why don't you stay, yeah 

In the song "stay" by sugarland the speaker is begging her man not to leave. In the first verse, the speaker is hoping her man wont get a call from another girl. If he does he will be gone. He doesn't stay he goes place to place. The speaker just want s him to stay. "And I've been laying here praying, praying she won't call, It's just another call from home, And you'll get it and be gone" 

verse two: even though he gets the call and he is going to leave, the speaker begs him to not go and when he does her heart is broken. " Beg you not to leave,But I'll be left here waiting  With my Heart on my sleeve" all she wants him to stay.

verse three:" And I think I'm dying,What do I have to do to make you see,She can't love you like me?, Why don't you stay" The speaker is saying how  she cant see what the girl has that she doesn't. She is trying to say how the girl cant love him as much she can. 

In verse four, the speaker has given up on him. she wont be waiting for him. She is insinuating that she wont be there the next time he comes back to her. She is finished being hurt time after time and decided she is better off with him. "But my will is getting stronger, And I think I know just what I have to do." 

The speaker is finally over the man who kept breaking her heart time after time. She just wanted him to stay and not leave for the other women, not until later on in the song does she figure out that he is always going to come back and leave. She decides to stop the pain by leaving him, not being the one begging him when he leaves. She is sick of it so she is just keeping him out of her life.                                                                        
                                                                                                                                         

Song Analysis 6 (Daddy You Can let Go by crystal shawanda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F7PH-LbJmA

Wind blowin' on my face                                                                                        
Sidewalk flyin' beneath my bike      Metaphor                                                                         
A five year-old's first taste                                                                                   
Of what freedom's really like                                                                                     
He was runnin' right beside me                                                                                     
His hand holdin' on the seat                      imagery                                                                      
I took a deep breath and hollered                                                                                     
As I headed for the street                                                                                           

You can let go now, Daddy                                                                                          
You can let go                                                                                              
Oh, I think I'm ready                                                                                      
To do this on my own                                                                                 
It's still a little bit scary                                                                                           
But I want you to know                                                                                       
I'll be ok now, Daddy                                                                                         
You can let go                                                                                       

I was standin' at the altar                                                                                             
Between the two loves of my life                                                                                   
To one I've been a daughter                                                                                         
To one I soon would be a wife                                                                                          
When the preacher asked,                                                                                               
         Daddy 's eyes filled up with tears                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
He kept holdin' tightly to my arm                                                                                 
‘Till I whispered in his ear                                                                                      

You can let go now, Daddy                                                                                             
You can let go                                                                                                  
Oh, I think I'm ready                                                                                                       
To do this on my own                                                                                              
It still feels a little bit scary                                                                                             
But I want you to know                                                                                       
I'll be ok now, Daddy                                                                                         
You can let go                                                                                            

It was killin' me to see                                                                                                  
The strongest man I ever knew                                                                                        
Wastin' away to nothin'                                                                                           
In that hospital room                                                                                            
‘You know he's only hangin' on for you'                                                                            
That's what the night nurse said        Alliteration                                                                          
My voice and heart were breakin'       Metaphor                                                                             
As I crawled up in his bed, and said                                                                                 

You can let go now, Daddy                                                                                              
You can let go                                                                                                          
Your little girl is ready                                                                                                      
To do this on my own                                                                                                   
It's gonna be a little bit scary                                                                                          
But I want you to know                                                                                                 
I'll be ok now, Daddy                                                                                                   
You can let go                                                                                                     
You can let go                                                                                                         

In the song, " Daddy You Can Let Go," by Crystal Shawanda is expressing the love the father has for a daughter. Every important event in his daughters life he was there for but he was always the one to  let her go, to let her  grow up.

In the first verse, Its explaining the time when the speaker was five and they were learning how to ride a bike. All of us has had this moment of one of your parents pushing you while you pedal. Usually the parent lets go and you don't notice. In this case though, the father doesn't let go and its the daughter who tells him to let go. It tells us either the child is a risk taker and is brave or more like the father is too over protective. He doesn't want to let go of her.

In second verse, his daughter is getting married, he is bringing his daughter to alter to get married. "I was standin' at the altar, Between the two loves of my life, To one I've been a daughter,To one I soon would be a wife."  She is ready to grow up and have a family and in a way the father doesn't want to let go. But he also is proud of her and wants her to grow up and have a family.  She tells him that he can let go and that she is ready for life." You can let go now, Daddy,You can let go... To do this on my own,It still feels a little bit scary, But I want you to know,I'll be ok now, Daddy, You can let go" 

In the third verse, the father is dying, but yet somehow he is holding on for his daughter. He doesn't want to let her go."It was killin' me to see,The strongest man I ever knew,Wastin' away to nothin', In that hospital room, ‘You know he's only hangin' on for you',That's what,the night nurse said " The nurse on duty told the daughter that the only reason he is holding on was because of her. the daughter told him he could let go.  Every single event in the girls life the father was there. Then came to a time when he had to leave his little girl for good and he didn't want to. He was there for her all the time, now he would have to go. It was hard for the daughter because she had to convince her father he could go, that he didn't have to hold on for her anymore. This songs is beautiful. It talks about the love of a parent but also the over protectiveness of a father.                      

Song Analysis 5 (The House That Built Me by miranda lambert)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQYNM6SjD_o 

I know they say you cant go home again.                                                                          

I just had to come back one last time                                                                             . 
Ma'am I know you don't know me from Adam.                                                                   
But these handprints on the front steps are mine.                                                             
And up those stairs, in that little back bedroom                                                                 
is where I did my homework and I learned to play guitar.                                                    
And I bet you didn't know under that live oak                                                                  
my favorite dog is buried in the yard.                                                                  

I thought if I could touch this place or feel it                                                                    
this brokenness inside me might start healing.                                                             
Out here its like I'm someone else,                                                                    
I thought that maybe I could find myself                                                                 
if I could just come in I swear I'll leave.                                                                     
Won't take nothing but a memory                                                                          
from the house that built me.                           Metaphor                                                 

Mama cut out pictures of houses for years.                                                                  
From 'Better Homes and Garden' magazines.         Allusion                                                          
Plans were drawn, concrete poured,                                                                 
and nail by nail and board by board                                                                 
Daddy gave life to mama's dream.                                                            

I thought if I could touch this place or feel it                                                             
this brokenness inside me might start healing.                                                   
Out here its like I'm someone else,                                                                
I thought that maybe I could find myself.                                                           
If I could just come in I swear I'll leave.                                                                 
Won't take nothing but a memory                                                               
from the house that built me.                                                               

You leave home, you move on and you do the best you can.                                                
I got lost in this whole world and forgot who I am.                                                              

I thought if I could touch this place or feel it                                                                     
this brokenness inside me might start healing.                                                                  
Out here its like I'm someone else,                                                                     
I thought that maybe I could find myself.                                                                          
If I could walk around I swear I'll leave.                                                                         
Won't take nothing but a memory                                                                               
from the house that built me.                                                                                 

In the song "The House That Built Me", Miranda Lambert portrays the feeling of returning to the house she grew up. She believes that if she goes to the place where she became who she was then she would find herself again.

In the first verse, she talks about how after you leave home and go out in the world your not suppose to come back home. She is talking to a stranger, probably the people who bought the house after the speaker's parents. She starts talking about the things in the house were things she did hung out in when she was little. "  But these handprints on the front steps are mine.     And up those stairs, in that little back bedroom is where I did my homework and I learned to play guitar.And I bet you didn't know under that live oak,my favorite dog is buried in the yard." The speaker is talking about how the little odd details of the house where the things she did when she was young like the "handprints on the front steps."    

In the second verse, the speaker is talking about how the feeling of something broken in her, like something is missing. She comes back to find herself."Out here its like I'm someone else,     I thought that maybe I could find myself." she promises the lady that she wont stay long that all she want was to look around and remember the times when she was a child growing up in the house. Hopeful that she will find out who she is from the house. "if I could just come in I swear I'll leave.Won't take nothing but a memory, from the house that built me."

In the third verse,  the speaker goes back in the time when her mom had a dream about a house. She use to cut pictures out magazines. "Mama cut out pictures of houses for years.         From 'Better Homes and Garden' magazines.Plans were drawn, concrete poured, and nail by nail and board by board ,Daddy gave life to mama's dream. " The speaker's father built her mother's dream house. The house that the speaker is going through finding herself is the house that is the mother's dream house.  

In the fourth verse, the speaker talks about leaving home and grow up. She was so overwhelmed living on her own she forgot who she was.

The song is basically about coming home to find the person she forgot about and its about all the memories she had when she was growing up. Its a beautiful song I believe.                                                                                                       

     

Song Analysis 4 ( Remember When by Alan Jackson)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTA2buWlNyM 

Remember when I was young and so were you                                                         Irony

and time stood still and love was all we knew                                                       Metonymy

You were the first, so was I                                                                         Alliteration

We made love and then you cried                                                                                  

Remember when                                                                                             Repetition

Remember when we vowed the vows                                                                                

and walked the walk                                                                                                      

Gave our hearts, made the start, it was hard                                                                      

We lived and learned, life threw curves                                          Personification                
There was joy, there was hurt                                                                                     
Remember when                                                                                          
Remember when old ones died and new were born                                                             
And life was changed, disassembled, rearranged                                                              
We came together, fell apart                                                              Metaphor                
And broke each other's hearts                                                                                          
Remember when                                                                                                    

Remember when the sound of little feet                                                                             
was the music                                                                                                
We danced to week to week                                                                                            
Brought back the love, we found trust        Imagery                                                                       
Vowed we'd never give it up                                                                                        
Remember when                                                                                         
Remember when thirty seemed so old                                                                                  
                                                              
Now lookn' back it's just a steppin' stone                                                                           
To where we are,                                                                                                           
Where we've been                                                                                                    
Said we'd do it all again                                                                                                  
Remember when                                                                                                        
Remember when we said when we turned gray                                  Ambiguity                   
When the children grow up and move away                                                                       
We won't be sad, we'll be glad                                                 Internal rhyme                  
For all the life we've had                                                                                              
And we'll remember when                                                                                              

Remember when is a song about growing up and reminiscing about the memories they have.
In the first verse, Its about when the speaker is young and it felt like that time didn't pass. That all they cared about was the love they had for each other. They didn't care about anything but love they had for each other."time stood still and love was all we knew."

In the second verse,  about when they got married and in the beginning it was hard. people died, people were born and they had a hard time the first couple years of being married. During the whole thing the speaker is looking back on the memories of what he remembered."made the start, it was hard,We lived and learned, life threw curves,There was joy, there was hurt"

In the third verse, is when the speaker and his wife has children. When the children was where the people found love again. In a way having children changed their lives changed what they were use to. They were use to quiet then the sound of little feet became the new music. 


In the fourth verse,the speaker is older and he is talking about how he thought thirty was old but now he doesn't think that."Remember when thirty seemed so old, Now lookn' back it's just a steppin' stone."  They talked about how they wouldn't mind going through all the things they again. they are older now. Their hair is gray and their children move away and even though they are sad they are going to be happy their kids grew up and go into life. This song was basically about how thought the speakers life they looked back in their memory and recalled all the great things they did and even some of the bad things.       

Song Analysis 3 (Why by rascal flats

"Why"   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EXGJKxi_PU   

You must have been in a                                                                                    

Place so dark                                                                                             
You couldn't feel the light                                                                                                
Reachin' for you through                 personification                                                                              
That stormy cloud                                                                                               
Now here we are                                                                                             
Gathered in our little hometown                                                                                     
This can't be the way                                                                                                
You meant to draw a crowd                                                                                               


Oh why, that's what I keep asking                                                                                   
Was there anything I could've                                                                                          
Said or done                                                                                               
Oh, I had no clue you were                                                                                             
Masking                                                                                                       
A troubled soul, God only knows      Allusion                                                                          
What went wrong and why                                                                                     
You would leave the stage                      Alliteration                                                               
In the middle of a song                        symbolism                                                              

Now in my mind I'll keep you frozen           Metaphor                                                                  
As a seventeen-year-old                                                                                  
Rounding third to score the            Imagery                                                                            
Winning run                                                                                              
You always played with passion                                                                                        
No matter what the game                                                                                        
When you took the stage                                                                                      
You'd shine just like the sun              Simile                                                                        


Oh why, that's what I keep asking                    repetition                                                                
Was there anything I could've                                                                                      
Said or done                                                                                                   
Oh, I had no clue you were                                                                                             
Masking                                                                                                      
A troubled soul, God only knows                                                                                       
What went wrong and why                                                                                        
You would leave the stage                                                                                             In the middle of a song                                                                                            

Now the oak trees are swaying                                                                                        
In the early autumn breeze                                                                                     
A golden sun is shining on my face                                                                             
Through tangled thoughts                                                                              
I hear a mockingbird sing                                                                                   
This old world really ain't that                                                                              
Bad of a place                                                                                       

Oh why, there's no comprehending                                                                                   
And who am I to try to                                                                                   
Judge or explain                                                                                
Oh, but I do have one                                                                            
Burning question                                                                                
Who told you life wasn't                                                                              
Worth the fight                                                                             
They were wrong, they lied                                                                              
Now you're gone and we cry                                                                              
'Cause it's not like you to                                                                              
Walk away                                                                                    

In the middle of a song                                                                                                    Your beautiful song

Your absolutely beautiful song                                 

In the song,"Why" by Rascals Flatt they portray the pain of losing a loved one.In the first verse its explaining the pain of the speaker and how she feels by explaining it like a storm.   You must have been in a, place so dark, you couldn't feel the light, reachin' for you through that stormy cloud." The storm is symbolizing the feeling of sadness and the people outside of trying to reach the person who is inside themselves. The speaker is kind of being funny saying that the funeral was a place to draw a crowd and saying it wasn't the best way to draw people."Gathered in our little hometown,This can't be the way,You meant to draw a crowd "

In the second verse, The speaker thinks its their fault what happened to the person. they keep thinking they could of done something to prevent it.  "Oh why, that's what I keep asking ,Was there anything I could've,Said or done,Oh, I had no clue you were,Masking,A troubled soul, God only knows." The person is upset how they didn't know what the person was that they were hiding something.  The speaker also uses ambiguity when they talk about why the person left the stage  in the middle of a song. The speaker mean the person is talking about the person's life. The person left their life before they were ready to leave. just like a person leaving in the middle of the song. "You would leave the stage,In the middle of a song "  

In the third verse, the speaker is talking about how the vision of the person is the seventeen age that they don't change in the mind they see them as they once was. The saying about the baseball game is about how the person wasn't scared of life he took it head on just like in baseball you take risks just like you take risks in baseball."Rounding third to score the, Winning run ,You always played with passion,No matter what the game" Also what ever the person did they did amazing at it. " You'd shine just like the sun".


In the fourth verse, the speaker is describing what she sees. She wants to know why the person didn't fight for life. I believe the person had cancer and didn't tell the speaker they had it. The speaker believed that the person didnt fight for life. Oh, but I do have one, Burning question, Who told you life wasn't, Worth the fight ,They were wrong, they lied,Now you're gone and we cry,'Cause it's not like you to,Walk away,In the middle of a song,  Your beautiful song, Your absolutely beautiful song." The speaker was upset how the person didn't fight for life they left the song in the middle of it. They left life too soon.