Just Give Me A Reason Figurative Language

“Just Give Me A Reason” Analysis

Love is common concept that has spurred much of today’s artistic representations specifically, in songs. Music, and their personal lyrics, have been a way for numerous artists to communicate to others their heartbreak and loss that they have experienced. Bruno Mars and Adele, notorious for their sorrow filled ballads, have used the literary device of figurative language in their song lyrics to describe the hyperbolization of the many loves they’ve lost. This is also true, for P!nk and Nate Ruess’s “Just Give Me A Reason”. By using the impending doom of heartbreak as a backdrop, “Just Give Me A Reason” tells the story of a troubled love that is arguably, not over. By incorporating the use of common forms of

Each of the types of figurative language used, provides an enhanced version of the message that is trying to get across. As Nate Ruess sings, “Your head is running wild again” in this musical representation, person like traits, are being added to a head. Since a head can not run wild, the complex meaning is that she is thinking too hard about the relationship and forgetting the good times, that were shared. This provides the conflict that is causing both parties to draw apart from each other. The hyperbole, in “Just Give Me A Reason”(2013) serves as an outstanding exaggeration that seen literally, is impossible. As P!nk vocalizes back to Nate, “We’re collecting dust” the overemphasizing of the time that it is taking to repair their love serves as a more descriptive way for the listeners to understand the longing that they feel for each other. The repeated reprise, sung by both Nate and P!nk, “We’re not broken just bent” serves as an idiom for a more profound meaning. Instead of P!nk being bent instead of broken physically, emotionally, the bent signifies that their relationship can be repaired versus broken, where there is no chance of