Brock Grueter
Speech 101
CAP 2
For this analysis, I will be breaking down the lyrics of the song "Let Her Go" by passenger. This song is about not realizing what you have until it is almost gone, or gone completely. It is a very emotional song that most people can really relate to. Although this sing is about the singer that goes through a break up with his girlfriend, only to realize that she was really important to him, and he feels like he is missing something in his life. In the opening verse he says "Well you only need the light when it's burning low". This is saying that you can be doing everything by yourself when you have something to guide you to the end, but once that "light" goes out and starts to "burn low", then you realize that you were relying on whatever it was to get you to the end. Next he says "Only miss the sun when it starts to snow" this is kind of like the last line but switched up the wording to make people understand it better. almost everyone, that has experiences the cold, can relate to how bad you want the sun to come out and be warm. So by him saying that you know what he is trying to convey. That is in the summer you dont really think about the sun, or you wish it to go away, but once winter comes around, and it is cold, you then wish to have that summer heat back. the last line in the opening of this song is where you start to get the true meaning of this song, he says "Only know you love her when you let her go" (Songmeanings). This lyric is showing that you can go through a relationship not really being happy and not realizing how important the other person is to you, but once they are out of your life you then realize how much they really meant to you.
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... him because he really did let her go.
They are many potential effects or results of this song, and it all depends on who is listening to it. Overall when you really listen to the lyrics, it's a pretty sad song about someone that when through a breakup with someone that he was really in love with. It shows that he regrets the decision of breaking up with her. Some potential effects of this song are possibly people taking things that are in their life less for granted and realizing to respect what they have before it is gone. Not only does it make people respect what they have and to be thankful for it, but it is also a way to telling people to go out and do what you want before you miss that chance and its gone forever. However you view the song it is a great song that makes you realize that something you love, see or do every day could be not there the next day.
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"The Russian Revolution, 1881-1939." DISCovering World History. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Student Resource Centre Canadian Edition. Web. 28 Oct. 2009.
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From the first stanza of this song, you get put into a scene. You know almost immediately that it is about someone, and it is the middle of December, but without stating the obvious, it paints a more illustrated picture for you. The first line states, “A winters day, in a deep and dark December” and I could almost immediately feel a cool breeze around me. When I normally think of a winter’s day, I think of people playing in the snow, and having a good time. This may be because I grew up in Southern California where there has been a lack of snow, but in my head, that is what I imagine. Having them state, in a deep and dark December, turns my attitudes to the more pessimistic way of looking at things. The image of children playing in the snow in my head has now turned to cold and dark emptiness. Reinstating my idea of emptiness, the next line follows with the simply statement, “I am alone”. Personally, I hate being alone. So to have the opening words place us in a deep and dark setting, and then state that you are alone, automatically puts me in a negative mindset.