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| I chose this song because it has some of the best examples of metaphoric phrasing in it because they are not the ones we are used to seeing, and they are used in very creative ways. Right off the bat, the comparison of an old girlfriend to "another diamond ring" sets the tone and mood for the entire song and the rest of the lyrics follow that lead with one clever line after another. Take a look at some of the analogies like "I used to feel your fire but now it's cold inside", and "your love made me a prisoner, yeah my heart's been doing time". |
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| One of my favorites, and a different way to say that someone has taken advantage of you is this line: "You spent me up like money, then you hung me out to dry". Now there's a phrase you don't see every day! The chorus itself uses the repetitive approach for the beginning of the lines with "Tell me". The first two lines go together very naturally because of the rhythm created by the words used: "Tell me what it takes to let you go, Tell me how the pain's supposed to go". You can see that it works because of how the words "takes" and "go", match up equally with "pain's" and "go". Having two rhymes like that, one in the center, and another at the end, is a great technique to make the lines flow and fit together. |
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| Other techniques used include rhetorical questions like "what's the story?, did you find another man?" and "is it easy to sleep in the bed that we made". And, the use of spelling out words to put added emphasis on them with the classic example of "F.I.N.E. Fine". A lot of Aerosmith's songs have this kind of creativity in their lyrics, but this one is especially entertaining, even when you're just reading it, and that's why, to me, it stands out. |
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| Lyrics Revealed will also be spotlighting various songs and their lyrics to take a closer look at what makes them great and what techniques the writer(s) used that you can also use when you write your songs. |
| (Just click on the song title to go to the lyrics page for that song.) |