Lyric Meanings

Lyric Meanings

We had an activity today, there were lyrics stock to different parts of the classroom. This was to help us gain the understanding that songs have meaning and that when we sing songs we should have an understanding of what they are about so that we can portray that to the audience. We were given lyrics and we had to describe what we thought they meant, and how we interpreted them so there were no right answers. We then discussed how we would communicate them on stage to the audience.

1. I think its about despair and possible heartbreak, it seems as though the writer is trying to make you imagine the way they feel.

2. I think these lyrics are about someone have these feelings for another but it turns out they who they thought they were. its telling us someone might look lovely but not actually be when you get to know them.

3. This one is similar to number one but this time the person can see through the significant other, and the person doesn't just want to be like every other man the women comes across.

4. This person has all the questions in their head but they cant think how to answer it, them saying the answers are in the 'air' signifies to me that there can be an answer to all their ponders somewhere but he cant see them just yet, so he doesn't know what they are.

5. This one is tricky and i find it hard to find a meaning, it seems like the person is saying that them and the other can still get to know each other and there is still time but he is saying it in different metaphorical ways.

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Our teacher showed us something like this to show how the singers are showing emotion in their performance and keeping the audience gripped not only with their voice but with movement also. Hand gestures and facial expression are mostly used, the body can sway but it isn’t as big of a movement as the hand gestures. It portrays that you don’t need to do too much like dance as well as sing to keep the audience entertained.