How Does Stephen Sanchez Use Metaphors In Until I Found You

Love has the power to keep people together even when they start to fall out. Being in love can be hard. One moment people can be in love, the next they aren't. But love never truly goes away. No matter how far someone can get from someone else, there will always still be that spark in them. The song “Until I Found You” by Stephen Sanchez and Em Beihold is a love song about Stephen Sanchez and his ex girlfriend, Georgia. When the two first met Stephen ended up pushing Georgia away. He later regrets what he did realizing he truly loved Georgia. Later on, Georgia gave Stephen a second chance. They meet up and start to fall in love again. In “Until I Found You,” Stephen Sanchez and Em Beihold demonstrates that love lasts even when the lover leaves through the use of metaphors and repetition.

Sanchez sings about how he wishes that he could go back to being more than friends with a girl that he still has feelings for. In the 13th line Sanchez explains his love as “Juliet to your Romeo” (Sanchez 13). Romeo and Juliet is a tragic story about two lovers who end up dying for each other. What Sanchez meant when he said this was that his love was so great he was willing to die for her. Just like how Romeo loved Juliet, Sanchez loved this girl with all his heart. But the only thing stopping him from loving her more was that she did not love him back anymore. With the use of this metaphor in the song of comparing Romeo and Juliet to his past romance with this girl, he was able to show that he still had feelings for her even though she was