Hi everybody! This is my first post on the blog and I have a song with analysis ready; however, first I will be giving a little intro and some background information. So, without further adieu, let’s get started!

Song: City lights

Artist: Motionless In White

Reason: I chose this song not only because it is one of my favorite songs, but because the lyrics have a lot of deep meaning. Also, Chris Motionless, the lead vocalist for motionless in white, is one of my heroes. He makes a statement about being who you want to be and not letting others take that away from you. Even though this is a very depressing song, it is very important to me and I chose it because I feel that it is a good song to open with.

Lyrics:
Paralyzed by my envy of the night
I am lost without you here
and outside it looks like rain
For the last time, I bleed myself dry tonight
And nothing I could ever write
will help you understand this life
There's so much beauty when your eyes
lay lost in all the city lights
The wax will drip as so as blood
romance is dead and all is lust.
You are the water in my lungs,
we've lost it.
We are all alone

Analysis: The first line that sticks out to me, strangely enough, is the first line, “Paralyzed by my envy of the night.” That line is a very interesting line; why is he envious of the night and why is this envy paralyzing? Well that can be answered by thinking about what aspects of night that could be worthy of envy. Night is dark makes it hard to see; therefore, one quality is that it can hide things. This is likely to be the quality that is being envied, because on line two, it says that he is feeling “lost,” which is a feeling of utter distress and is very unsettling. He wants to hide that so incredibly bad that it leaves him “paralyzed.” In this use, paralyzed means that he is completely consumed by his envy to a point of extreme and constriction; the constriction of his every-day life. His feeling is so strong that it interferes with how he lives and that’s why he wants to be able to hide it, but he cannot, so he has no choice but to remain paralyzed and envious.

Next, the song displays just how much he is affected by his problem. A line about time shows that his will to live decreases as time goes on. The line states, “the wax will drip as so as blood.” Wax has a connotation with time because candles are made of wax and as they burn and time goes on the wax drips. Wax is dense in liquid form, so the wax “[dripping] as so as blood” reveals that his time is running out because blood not only is a faster running fluid that wax, but it also represents his death because earlier in the song it says “I bleed myself dry;” and that means to end his own life. Which is also why the “wax”, representing his time, is dripping faster. He in a sense ruined from whatever heartache happened to him and he can’t take it to the point where he doesn’t even have the will to live. This line depicts how emotionally damaged he is by his problem, and it emphasizes his depression.

Lastly, this song shows blame and hatred. He compares the person who left him heart broken to a disease to illustrate how terrible he feels. Near the end the song says, “You are the water in my lungs.” Having water in your lungs can kill you in severe cases, and considering all of the development of the severity of his problem and feelings, it very much is a severe case. This means that he is not only emphasizing how he doesn’t have much time left, but also he is saying that the person who hurt him is his killer. That person is represented as the water that is drowning him inside of himself. Also, because disease is one in his lungs it reinforces the severity of his problem because it means that he is suffocating in his woe. It is easy to see how his failures in love have become his problems in life and are killing him, both literally and inside.

Overall this song is a tale of woe about failures in romance and the hate that the speaker has developed from it. It uses everything from metaphor to interesting imagery to display his feeling of utter distress. his overwhelming issue proves to much for him and he ends up taking his own life.

If you are interested in a link to the song, well, here it is! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCMnUH_jHTI&ob=av2e