Analysis Of The Song Woke Up This Morning

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People combating depression struggle to return to feeling normal from a morose state of being. Depression is the feeling of deep dejection from the events around you that has led many people down dark and dangerous paths. In the most severe of cases, it has caused people afflicted with depression to commit acts of murder and suicide. In A3’s song, “Woke Up This Morning”, the structure and lyrics of the song let us know that the listener has entered a state of depression and is going to commit a violent act. This fits very well for the show that this song is the intro to: David Chase’s, The Sopranos. The lyrics of the song paint an image of someone going through an internal struggle. The very first two lines of the song, “Gonna take you down/Deep …show more content…

Line 3, where the listener wakes up and gets a gun, is also the start of a pattern throughout the song. This is the first time in the song that the title is incorporated into the lyrics. Hearing the title of the song places importance on the following line. Each time the title is repeated, a depressing line usually follows, for example, “All the love is gone” (line 12), “The world turned upside down” (line 25), “…everything you had was gone” (line 38) are all lines that follow the title when it is repeated in the lyrics. Each of these lines puts the listener in a sad place in his/her life. These lines make the reader imagine a person who has just gone through a very traumatic experience. The feeling of loss and turmoil are on the mind of the listener after waking up in the morning. The line “Got a blue moon in your eyes” also follows the title many times throughout the lyrics, which has already been established as an ominous look from the listener. Line 38 is when the structure if the lyrics go under a dramatic change. Up until this point the lyrics are separated into stanzas, but at line 38 the structure changes to prose. The change in structure goes from organized to a jumble of lines emphasizing the chaos that is going on for the listener. The lyrics here are the biggest indicator of the turmoil the listener is experiencing. Lyrics such as, “By half past ten your head was going ding-dong. Ringing like a bell from your head down to your toes” (line 39), “Last night you were flying but today you’re so low…” (Line 42), and “Don’t you wish you didn’t function,” (Line 46) all emphasize an internal struggle taking place within the listener. This prose concludes with the speaker telling the listener, “Well you do so make up your mind to go on, ‘cos when you woke up this morning everything you had was gone.” (Line 48). Here, after the jumble of chaos, the speaker is trying to convince the listener to

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