Song lyrics and analysis
So I was listening to Adema's "Close Friends", and realized that it's lyrically primitive. In that old cliche, it tells rather than shows. For example:
"I was betrayed, how can you say that you feel sorry inside
It's devastating, losing close friends
I've gone away, you make me stay but I can't deal with the lies
I've gone insane, losing close friends"
It's plainly stated with simple words. What happened? He was betrayed. His friend says that he feels sorry but he can't understand how he can just say that. How does he feel? Devastated. He's lost close friends. He's trying to leave, but the friend's trying to make him stay.
Now here's some lines from Eve 6's "Good lives"
"Prep school kid with wall street glib
Got a suit and a tie and a record with winners"
This is more of a snapshot. You've got a kid: not yet an adult, not yet taken seriously. He has "Wall Street glib", not a businessman but apparently attempting to talk like one. He's "got a suit", which makes it seem incidental or not a part of his actual personality. You know how some people can wear a suit and it just seems right, whereas others look like it doesn't fit them? He's of the latter. The "record with winners", I think, draws two phrases together. A person can have a history of winning (I'm probably not remembering the cliche correctly), which means that they are very successful in whatever they do. A person can also have a "record", meaning a criminal record. The mixing of these two things says that, while he's worked with winners, he doesn't have a good reputation among them. They've probably succeeded despite him.
Or this bit, which I know from Rockapella's "People Change":
"I really can't believe it's been a year
It took a little time without you here
I'm guessing you survived alone somehow
It's good that I can joke about it now"
It isn't specified what happened (I'm not even sure, as it isn't stated in the song). It's been a while, and it was something that took some recovery. The time period is stated, and change as well, given as it's stated "can joke about it now" (emphasis added), so there was a time when the writer couldn't joke about it. "You survived alone somehow" indicated separation of some kind, to such an extent that the writer hasn't been in contact with this person, and the first line seems to indicate that time passed quicker than he or she anticipated.
I'm not liking Adema's song quite as much now, as the feeling that it spoke to is now fading.
"I was betrayed, how can you say that you feel sorry inside
It's devastating, losing close friends
I've gone away, you make me stay but I can't deal with the lies
I've gone insane, losing close friends"
It's plainly stated with simple words. What happened? He was betrayed. His friend says that he feels sorry but he can't understand how he can just say that. How does he feel? Devastated. He's lost close friends. He's trying to leave, but the friend's trying to make him stay.
Now here's some lines from Eve 6's "Good lives"
"Prep school kid with wall street glib
Got a suit and a tie and a record with winners"
This is more of a snapshot. You've got a kid: not yet an adult, not yet taken seriously. He has "Wall Street glib", not a businessman but apparently attempting to talk like one. He's "got a suit", which makes it seem incidental or not a part of his actual personality. You know how some people can wear a suit and it just seems right, whereas others look like it doesn't fit them? He's of the latter. The "record with winners", I think, draws two phrases together. A person can have a history of winning (I'm probably not remembering the cliche correctly), which means that they are very successful in whatever they do. A person can also have a "record", meaning a criminal record. The mixing of these two things says that, while he's worked with winners, he doesn't have a good reputation among them. They've probably succeeded despite him.
Or this bit, which I know from Rockapella's "People Change":
"I really can't believe it's been a year
It took a little time without you here
I'm guessing you survived alone somehow
It's good that I can joke about it now"
It isn't specified what happened (I'm not even sure, as it isn't stated in the song). It's been a while, and it was something that took some recovery. The time period is stated, and change as well, given as it's stated "can joke about it now" (emphasis added), so there was a time when the writer couldn't joke about it. "You survived alone somehow" indicated separation of some kind, to such an extent that the writer hasn't been in contact with this person, and the first line seems to indicate that time passed quicker than he or she anticipated.
I'm not liking Adema's song quite as much now, as the feeling that it spoke to is now fading.