5 Seconds Of Summer Poem Analysis

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Imagine yourself lying in the sun, feeling the warmth on your skin, when a cloud cover the sun and you feel the sudden coldness that you can seem to shake? The feeling is similar when you love someone very much but they don’t return the feeling. The band, 5 Seconds of Summer (5SOS), in their song, If You Don’t Know, sings about how a singer is in love with a person. The person seems to not be sure if they are in love with the singer, and the the singer wishes for the person to let them go. The couple that 5SOS wrote about was in love at one time, but the person is slowly falling out of love with the singer.
In the beginning of the song, If You Don’t Know, the singer is coming to realization that their partner is going to leave them. In the first stanza the lyrics say, “tonight we’re fading fast, I just want to make this last.”. The singer is saying that they want their relationship to continue and that they believe that it is coming to an end quickly.Later, in that same stanza the singer says, “I’d find a way to make you stay. I’d never let you get away.”. Here, the singer is realizing that the person whom they love is leaving. As …show more content…

I swear we’ll make this last.”. The singer is trying hard to keep their one true love and doesn’t want to lose them. They would do anything just to have one more night with their love. In the chorus it is written, “I want you to want me this way. And I need you to need me to stay. If you say you don’t feel a thing, if you don’t know, then let me go.”. In this part of the song the singer urges their partner to need them and want them, they are practically begging for it. At this point, they understand that they don’t inquire a relationship if the other doesn’t feel anything, so they are asking for the hardest thing, for their best friend to let them

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