Anne+Bradstreet+Songs

purple ** : personification ** red ** : simile ** blue ** : metaphor ** orange ** : hyperbole ** green ** : repetition ** teal ** : imagery **

**Shiny Toy Guns - Frozen Oceans**
I can't sleep I've lost the urge to sing No one's left a friend The cost of ill pretend Where'd you go? I need you now I said ooh, ooh Ten thousand miles apart A frozen ocean joins our hearts I can't wait to meet you when The frozen waves meet ocean floors You'll be standing on the shore I can't wait to meet you then I still dream But what should I believe? Frozen shapes to bend Impossible sets in <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Lost again, still alone <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">I said ooh, ooh <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Ten thousand miles apart <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">A frozen ocean joins our hearts <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">I can't wait to meet you when The frozen waves meet ocean floors You'll be standing on the shore **(makes listener imagine them meeting while this happens in the background, sets mood of song)** <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">I can't wait to meet you then I can't wait I can't wait I can't wait I can't wait I can't wait I can't wait I can't wait **(stresses importance of this phrase)**

<span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">The frozen waves meet ocean floors <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">You'll be standing on the shore <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">I can't wait to meet you then <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Ten thousand miles apart A frozen ocean joins our hearts **(is comparing their emotions to frozen oceans, makes emotions seem negative and large, but it still connects the two people)**  <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">I cant wait to meet you when <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">**Blink 182 - I Miss You** **(compared to ////As Spring The// Winter Doth Succeed//)**

Hello there, the angel from my nightmare The shadow in the background of the morgue **(sets dark and sad mood of song)** The unsuspecting victim of darkness in the valley **(is describing the girl that never comes back to him, makes her seem like a victim/not at fault)** <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">We can live like Jack and Sally if we want Where you can always find me <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">And we'll have halloween on Christmas  <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">And in the night we'll wish this never ends  <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">We'll wish this never ends  <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> I miss you, miss you <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">I miss you, miss you <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Where are you and I'm so sorry <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">I cannot sleep, I cannot dream tonight  <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">I need somebody and always This sick, strange darkness <span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Comes creeping on so haunting every time **(makes listener realize how serious the singer is on this topic)** <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> And as I stared I counted the webs from all the spiders <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Catching things and eating their insides  <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Like indecision to call you and hear your voice of treason  <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Will you come home and stop this pain tonight? <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Stop this pain tonight <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> Don't waste your time on me you're already the voice inside my head <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">(I miss you, miss you)  <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Don't waste your time on me you're already the voice inside my head  <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">(I miss you, miss you)  <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Don't waste your time on me you're already the voice inside my head  <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">(I miss you, miss you)  <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Don't waste your time on me you're already the voice inside my head  <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">(I miss you, miss you) Don't waste your time on me you're already the voice inside my head <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">(I miss you, miss you)  <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Don't waste your time on me you're already the voice inside my head  <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">(I miss you, miss you) (I miss you, miss you) <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">(I miss you, miss you)  <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">(I miss you, I miss you)

**Eminem - Sing For The Moment (compared to //The Four Elements////)//**
<span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">These ideas are nightmares for white parents Whose worst fear is a child with dyed hair and who likes earrings **(gives listener an image of the type of kid being talked about)**  <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Like whatever they say has no bearin' <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Its so scary in a house that allows no swearin' <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">To see him walkin' around with his headphones blarin' <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Alone in his own zone cold and he don't care <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">He's a problem child what bothers him all comes out <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">When he talks about his fuckin' dad walkin' out <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">'Cos he hates him so bad that he blocks him out <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">But if he ever saw him again he'd probably knock him out <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">His thoughts are whacked he's mad so he's talkin' back <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Talkin' black brainwashed from rock and rap <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">He sags his pants two rags and a stockin' cap <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">His step father hit him so he socked him back <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">And broke his nose this house is a broken home **(comparing his home to something broken, and makes the home sound like it isn't a safe place to be)**  <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">There's no control he just lets his emotions go <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">(C'mon) Sing with me (Sing) Sing for the year (Sing) Sing for the laughter Sing for the tear (C'mon) Sing with me just for today Maybe tomorrow the good Lord will take you away

<span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Entertainment is danger intertwine it with gangsters <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">In the land of the killers a sinner's mind is a sanctum <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Only you're unholy only have one homey <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Only this gun lonely 'cuz don't anyone know me <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">But everybody just feels like they can relate <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">I guess words are a motherfucker they can be great <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Or they can be great or even worse they can teach hate <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Its like kids hang on every single statement we make <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Like they worship us plus all the stores ship us platinum <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Now how the fuck did this metamorphosis happen? <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">From standin' on corners and porches just rappin' <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">To havin' a fortune no more kissin' ass <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">But then these critics crucify you journalists try to burn you <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Fans turn on you attorney's all gonna turn it to <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">To get their hands on every dime you have <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">They want you to lose your mind every time you mad <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">So they can try to make you out to look like a loose canon <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">You need to spew don't hesitate to produce air guns <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Thats why these prosecutors wanna convict me <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Swiftly just to get me off these streets quickly <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">But all their kids been listen to me religiously <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">So I'm signin' cds while police fingerprint me <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">They're for the judges daughter but his grudge is against me <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">If I'm such a fuckin' menace this shit doesn't make sense, Pete <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">It's all political if my music is literal and I'm a criminal <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">How the fuck can I raise a little girl? <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">I couldn't I wouldn't be fit to <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">You're full of shit too Guerrera that was a fist that hit you Sing with me (Sing) Sing for the year (Sing) Sing for the laughter Sing for the tear (C'mon) Sing with me just for today Maybe tomorrow the good Lord will take you away

<span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">They say music can alter moods and talk to you <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">But can it load a gun for you and cock it too? <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Well if it can then the next time you assault a dude <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Just tell the judge it was my fault and I'll get sued <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">See what these kids do is hear about us totin' pistols <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">And they want to get one 'cos they think the shit's cool <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Not knowin' we're really just protectin' ourselves <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">We're entertainers of course this shit's affectin' our sales <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">You ignoramus but music is reflection of self <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">We just explain it and then we get our checks in the mail <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">It's fucked up ain't it how we can come from practically nothin' <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">To bein' able to have any fuckin' thing that we wanted <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">It's why we sing for these kids that don't have a thing <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Except for a dream and a fuckin' rap magazine <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Who post pinup pictures on their walls all day long <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Idolize their favorite rappers and know all they songs <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Or for anyone who's ever been through shit in they lives <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">So they sit and they cry at night wishin' they die <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Till they throw on a rap record and they sit and they vibe <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">We're nothin' to you but we're the fuckin' shit in their eyes <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">That's why we seize the moment and try to freeze it and own it <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Squeeze it and hold it 'cos we consider these minutes golden <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">And maybe they'll admit it when we're gone <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Just let our spirits live on through out lyrics that you hear in our songs <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">And we can Sing with me (Sing) Sing for the year (Sing) Sing for the laughter Sing for the tear (C'mon) Sing with me just for today Maybe tomorrow the good Lord will take you away

Sing with me (Sing) Sing for the year (Sing) Sing for the laughter Sing for the tear (C'mon) Sing with me just for today Maybe tomorrow the good Lord will take you away **(puts importance on these phrases and makes it clear that this is what he wants to do/wants others to do, sends his message)**