Song: “Bless the Broken Road” by Rascal Flatts “Bless the Broken Road” is a song that describes the emotions I felt as I received my rejection letter. The school I was attending only went up to 6th grade so we had to apply to other schools. I applied to 3 schools but the school I really wanted to enroll in was University School of Nashville. The main reason I wanted to go was because my best friend, Milly, was going. The letter arrived in the mail and I ripped the paper to shreds disregarding what my mom said about waiting for her to get home. As I read the letter tears pooled in the corner of my eyes waiting to fall. “That every long lost dream” represents what was going through my mind. I thought my life was over. I felt like the biggest failure that I couldn’t get in to the school of my dreams. Then Milly called me excited that she got in and I couldn’t help but cry so hard I could barely breathe. I was so …show more content…
I was in Tybee Island for a school trip when they called my teacher. I was dissecting a squid with my classmates; we were using the ink bags to write our name. My teacher called me outside to talk and I was paranoid that I was in trouble. The teacher looked at me with a sad face and I was confused at what she was sad about. She then told me that my uncle had died from a stroke. The funeral was the following Wednesday. I returned home on Monday. We couldn't believe that one day you could be fine and the next day not. " I just can't stand to see you leaving/ but Heaven couldn't wait for you" these lyrics describe the only logical explanation of why God took him away from away his family. When he was being buried his only daughter, Mika, didn't want him to be buried. " So go on, home" represents the moment my family came to piece and let him go home. In summary, " Heaven" represents the confusion but later acceptance my family we through in the event of my uncle's
Florida Georgia Line consists of two country singers, Brian Kelley and Tyler Hubbard. Ever since the two met at college, their careers have taken off. Florida Georgia Line is well known for its hit, “Cruise” which has had over one million downloads sold and topped both country radio charts. Due to this success, a remix was created with Nelly. This original song was released in 2012, and is part of the album, “Here’s to the Good Times,” whereas the remix was released in 2013.
My first song I´ve chosen is Sean McGee, song titled My Story. Mainly the song is about him facing different struggles, obstacles, and all the horrible things and situations he´s been in throughout his life. I can connect to this song and the lyrics for many reasons. One of his lines were ¨Do you know how it feels to be left out in the rain¨? And I have faced times like this when I feel like no one is there or have my back, and in the line he´s trying express how it feels to have nobody and be all alone. Also throughout this song he expresses how everyday you wake up your face with something rather it's just a minor issue or something that will greatly impact your life.
The speaker is visiting “home for the weekend, /from school, from the North,” and her grandma asks her, “How’s school a-goin’?” The speaker replies with “School’s fine,” holding back her emotions on her lifestyle in college. “I wanted to tell her/about the nights I cried into the familiar heartsick panels of the quilt she made me,/wishing myself home on the evening star./I wanted to tell her/the evening star was a planet,/that my friends wore noserings and wrote poetry/about sex, about alcoholism, about Buddha./ I wanted to tell her how my stomach burned acidic holes at the thought of speaking in class,/speaking in an accent, speaking out of turn,” Understanding is a vital part of the bonds people share. She knew her grandma couldn’t comprehend any of it. The speaker sensed her grandma would deem her friends inadequate. “I was tearing, splitting myself apart/with the slow-simmering guilt of being happy/despite it all.” In spite of the hardships, the speaker enjoyed it
There are many phrases that have several different meanings and interpretations. One phrase is slightly more difficult to decipher; the title of Tim McGraw’s latest hit “Humble and Kind”. The songwriter, Lori Mckenna, takes important characteristics people should possess and incorporates them into a song. This song describes many life situations and is directed toward the general youth of today. McKenna writes while thinking of her children and the life lessons they should learn (Lyrics Uncovered). McGraw then puts them into a melody that is calm, as if he is teaching as he sings. The single “Humble and Kind” is packed full of life lessons for all to hear.
The song I’ve chosen for this assignment is Old Friends by the band Pinegrove. This is a charming alt-rock song about remembering old connections, and holding on to the new ones. In the song singer Evan Stephens Hall realizes he doesn’t make enough time for the people he really cares about when a friend of his passes away. Although I may not be able to relate to the song completely, I can definitely relate to the overall message the band is trying to get across, specifically in a few lines. “I kept saying I wanted to see you/ Saying, ‘What’s wrong with that?’
Johnny Cash can be considered one of the best country artists of all times, but the soul of his music is rooted in the blues. Many of Cash’s songs are about the complications that come with love. The four songs listed above are only a few parts of the story Cash teaches us about the world of love. Most importantly, Cash does a wonderful job of explaining the complicated nature of love and how it really is the most powerful force in the world. Before diving into each of these songs, one must first understand how Cash is a blues artist just as much as he is a country artist.
I looked around at everyone in the room and saw the sorrow in their eyes. My eyes first fell on my grandmother, usually the beacon of strength in our family. My grandmother looked as if she had been crying for a very long period of time. Her face looked more wrinkled than before underneath the wild, white hair atop her head. The face of this once youthful person now looked like a grape that had been dried in the sun to become a raisin. Her hair looked like it had not been brushed since the previous day as if created from high wispy clouds on a bright sunny day.
Before, I could even take note, it was already October. It was time for me to pack everything in my room, and say my final goodbyes to my family members. I was going to leave everything that meant a lot to me behind. Previously, before October, we picked up my dad from the airport so that he could help us load all of our belongings to the U-Haul truck. Lily, ‘my cousin’, (we aren’t related, she is just a very close friend who I consider family) was staying with use because she want to see her father, who was also living in Denver. My mom and dad, sister, uncle, cousin, and I all stayed at the house one last night. I remember that my sister said that all her friends gathered around my mom’s car to wave goodbye to her. Her closest friends got very emotional and they started to cry. Not only did the move affect me, it also affected my sister greatly. It was like someone had given her a punch in the stomach. By the next day, we had everything in the U-Haul truck, and it was time for me to leave my precious Vegas behind. We had now started the drive to
This song means so much to me because it reminds me of my dad. He use to let me drive down the road on his lap. We did most of the same things together and we just loved each other so much. We would spend lots of time together doing things and I always think of those memories and
I was a typical 6th grader with a love for social time and hatred towards pointless homework. As I was tapping my foot on my creaking wooden desk with my book opened pretending to read, Mr. Daniels was watching over me like a bird that just gave birth to chicken eggs. I had a feeling she was going to ask me a question about what I was reading. I realized from that point on to always trust my instincts. Mrs. Daniels tall toothpick shaped body leaned over and asked me to summarize the first chapter in front of the whole class. Due to not even beginning to read the first page I told her I did not even know where to begin. Since I was not prepared for class, not participating, and being rude about my task at hand I received a punishment. My punishment was every week I had to write a summary in my own words about the chapter I had read. My eyes rolled in the back of my head so far I didn't know if they would ever go back to normal. I knew my life was over at this
Honor to Us All" is a song that carries very similar concepts to the scene where the matchmaker arranges for Lindo Jong to marry Huang Taitai to where she is receiving training on how to be a good wife. In the story, Lindo is matched with Huang Taitai, a local boy from a wealthy family. After a flood destroys the house she is living in, her family decides that it is time for her to live in the household where she will eventually be with her future husband. Servants at the house teach her to cook, sew, and do several other tasks a wife should “know how to do.” The song "Honor to Us All" talks about how a girl can honor her family “by striking a good match,” and by a girl “bearing sons.”
Millay chooses to construct her poems by making the narrative as personal, internal, and articulate as humanly possible for the reader. Her ability to engage the reader in reflecting not only on the characters notion of self, but also their own, is made possible by her realistic and accessible construction of selfhood within her poems. Millay writes about an internal reaction the speaker has when discovering, in a public setting, that her lover has died. The speaker does not show actual emotions as much as she offers up hypothetical ways in which people would most likely expect her to react. Yet, she seems unaffected emotionally. By using the description of common expressions of emotion as examples but not physical actions, Millay may be hinting that an awareness selfhood is an inner understanding...
Memories and emotions are something we hold so dear and near to our hearts, and it would be such a dull life without them. The author did an outstanding job of showing me just how important having both of these things in my life truly
The song “Take me to Church” by the artist Hozier, though a popular song, is filled to the brim with many types of analogies, symbols, and social struggles. He explains the trials and opposition that a homosexual individual goes through throughout his/her life by explaining the strong bias of government, religion, and other world views as the song progresses. He successfully creates a beautiful and catchy song on the outside, all the while holding a deeper meaning of the clash of what is accepted and what he believes. In order to connect the symbols to one another, you must first know the overall meaning of the text.
the words of a sad song, where the words have no meaning. My life had