EDWIN McCAIN



Poetic Devices in Songs

Poetry is Everywhere

Songs with Metaphors & Personification

I'll Be

By Edwin McCain



The strands in your eyes that color them wonderful

Stop me and steal my breath

Emeralds from mountains thrust towards the sky

Never revealing their depth

Tell me that we belong together

Dress it up with the trappings of love

I'll be captivated, I'll hang from your lips

Instead of the gallows of heartache that hang from above

I'll be your cryin' shoulder

I'll be love suicide

I'll be better when I'm older

I'll be the greatest fan of your life

Rain falls angry on the tin roof

As we lie awake in my bed

You're my survival, you're my living proof

My love is alive and not dead

Tell me that we belong together

Dress it up with the trappings of love

I'll be captivated, I'll hang from your lips

Instead of the gallows of heartache that hang from above

I'll be your cryin' shoulder

I'll be love suicide

I'll be better when I'm older

I'll be the greatest fan of your life

I've dropped out, burned up, fought my way back from the dead

Tuned in, turned on, remembered the things you said

I'll be your cryin' shoulder

I'll be love suicide

I'll be better when I'm older

I'll be the greatest fan of your life

Songs with Similes

Just Like A Pill

By Pink



I'm lyin' here on the floor where you left me 

I think I took too much 

I'm crying here, what have you done? 

I thought it would be fun 

I can't stay on your life support, there's a

shortage in the switch, 

I can't stay on your morphine, cuz its making me itch 

I said I tried to call the nurse again but she’s

being a little witch, 

I think I'll get outta here, where I can 

Run just as fast as I can 

To the middle of nowhere 

To the middle of my frustrated fears 

And I swear you're just like a pill 

Instead of makin' me better, you keep makin' me ill 

You keep makin' me ill 

I haven't moved from the spot where you left me 

This must be a bad trip 

All of the other pills, they were different 

Maybe I should get some help 

I can't stay on your life support, there's a

shortage in the switch, 

I can't stay on your morphine, cuz its making me

itch 

I said I tried to call the nurse again but she’s

being a little witch, 

I think I'll get outta here, where I can 

Run just as fast as I can 

To the middle of nowhere 

To the middle of my frustrated fears 

And I swear you're just like a pill 

Instead of makin' me better, you keep makin' me ill 

You keep makin' me ill

Allusion Examples

Hall Of Fame - the Script

Yeah, you can be the greatest

You can be the best

You can be the King Kong banging on your chest

You could beat the world

You could beat the war

You could talk to God, go banging on his door

You can throw your hands up

You can beat the clock

You can move a mountain

You can break rocks

You can be a master

Don't wait for luck

Dedicate yourself and you gon' find yourself

Standing in the hall of fame

And the world's gonna know your name

'Cause you burn with the brightest flame

And the world's gonna know your name

And you'll be on the walls of the hall of fame

You can go the distance

You can run the mile

You can walk straight through hell with a smile

You could be the hero

You could get the gold

Breaking all the records they thought never could be broke

Yeah, do it for your people

Do it for your pride

How you ever gonna know if you never even try?

Do it for your country

Do it for your name

'Cause there's gonna be a day...

When you're standing in the hall of fame

And the world's gonna know your name

'Cause you burn with the brightest flame

And the world's gonna know your name

And you'll be on the walls of the hall of fame

Be a champion, be a champion,

be a champion, be a champion

On the walls of the hall of fame

(Repeat)

Be students

Be teachers

Be politicians

Be preachers

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Extended Metaphor

Your Heart Is An Empty Room

By Death Cab for Cutie

Burn it down till the embers smoke on the ground

And start new when your heart is an empty room

With walls of the deepest blue

Home's face: how it ages when you're away

Spring blooms and you find the love that's true

But you don't know what now to do

Cause the chase is all you know

And she stopped running months ago

And all you see

Is where else you could be

When you're at home

Out on the street

Are so many possibilities

To not be alone

The flames and smoke climbed out of every window

And disappeared with everything that you held dear

And you shed not a single tear for the things that you didn't need

'Cause you knew you were finally free

'Cause all you see is where else you could be when you're at home

Out on the street are so many possibilities to not be alone

And all you see is where else you could be

When you're at home

There on the street are so many possibilities to not be alone

Brothers On A Hotel Bed

By Death Cab for Cutie



You may tire of me as our December sun is setting because I'm not who I used to be

No longer easy on the eyes but these wrinkles masterfully disguise

The youthful boy below who turned your way and saw

Something he was not looking for: both a beginning and an end

But now he lives inside someone he does not recognize

When he catches his reflection on accident

On the back of a motor bike

With your arms outstretched trying to take flight

Leaving everything behind

But even at our swiftest speed we couldn't break from the concrete

In the city where we still reside.

And I have learned that even landlocked lovers yearn for the sea like navy men

Cause now we say goodnight from our own separate sides

Like brothers on a hotel bed

Like brothers on a hotel bed

Like brothers on a hotel bed

Like brothers on a hotel bed

32 Flavours

By Ani Difranco

squint your eyes and look closer

I'm not between you and your ambition

I am a poster girl with no poster

I am thirty-two flavors and then some

and I'm beyond your peripheral vision

so you might want to turn your head

cause someday you're going to get hungry

and eat most of the words you just said

both my parents taught me about good will

and I have done well by their names

just the kindness I've lavished on strangers

is more than I can explain

still there's many who've turned out their porch lights

just so I would think they were not home

and hid in the dark of their windows

'til I'd passed and left them alone

and god help you if you are an ugly girl

course too pretty is also your doom

cause everyone harbors a secret hatred

for the prettiest girl in the room

and god help you if you are a phoenix

and you dare to rise up from the ash

a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy

while you are just flying back

I'm not trying to give my life meaning by demeaning you

and I would like to state for the record

I did everything that I could do

I'm not saying that I'm a saint

I just don't want to live that way

no, I will never be a saint

but I will always say

squint your eyes and look closer

I'm not between you and your ambition

I am a poster girl with no poster

I am thirty-two flavors and then some

And I'm beyond your peripheral vision

So you might want to turn your head

Cause someday you might find you're starving

and eating all of the words you said

Standing in the hall of fame

And the world's gonna know your name

'Cause you burn with the brightest flame

And the world's gonna know your name

And you'll be on the walls of the hall of fame

(Repeat)

(You can be a champion)

You could be the greatest

(You can be a champion)

You can be the best

(You can be a champion)

You can be the King Kong banging on your chest

…You could talk to God, go banging on his door

…You can break rocks

…Dedicate yourself and you gonna find yourself

…Standing in the hall of fame

Be believers

Be leaders

Be astronauts

Be champions

Be truth seekers

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