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The album kicks off with a song accurately titled “An Introduction to the Album”, a slow burning anthem with a slow, calming guitar lead serving as a background for Christian Holden to sing an infectious repeated vocal melody throughout the first half of the song. Christian’s voice is by no means perfect, but his untrained vocals allow genuine emotion to shine through as we hear the stress his voice is put under for some of the more demanding notes. The song twists and turns with the same guitar lead, and sustained piano, until finally Christian lets out a pained cry of “the pills that you gave didn't do anything, I just slept for years on end”, just before the full band crashes with the agony and intensity of an insufferable defeat. For …show more content…

Grief and loss are at the center of most of the songs subject matter, fondly remembering friends and loved ones as well as questioning and second guessing each of those past relationships. The lyrics to “Your Deep Rest” detail conversations had with a close friend leading up to his or her suicide. Sadness encompasses the narrator’s voice as “I found the notes you left behind, little hints and helpless cries. Desperate wishing to be over” is sung over the quiet guitars, and guilt is confronted as “I called in sick from your funeral. The sight of your family made me feel responsible” is sung as the chorus. It embodies the horrors of realizing you could have helped, that you could have in some way changed how things turned out. Instead, that friend has died, and suddenly you’re left realizing that you slowly watched it happen. The song ends with admitting that “I watched you set your spirit free”. It’s these narratives that leave an impression on the listener. As strong as the music is, these stories are what stick with you whether you want them to or not. They are deeply personal and at the same time dangerously relatable. “Life in Drag” details the inner turmoil of a transgender individual in a heart wrenching way, discussing the pain of feeling alienated even in your own body. Home, Like NoPlace Is There’s narrative is written around a character who is surrounded by loved ones who “resolved to make (their) chaos external”, and who’s “wrist showed the bone”. The final track “Dendron” puts a fitting end to the narrative that the album created as a whole, ending with some of the most haunting lyrics on the

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This song allows people to relate as many people in the South and America has to break an arm and leg to just survive. Where Florida Georgia Line is a boy band of the late 2000s and they are artist who does some song writing of their own but majority of the time has their songs wrote by others or worked on by other artist. Florida Georgia Line has songs that are about the love life and break ups for an example one of their latest songs: “Holy”, which is about a female who came into a male’s life, when he was in his darkest times of life. Where he was all break up about life and the female came into his life and saved him for the dark. This goes to show how the modern day country music is about love and addiction to the way life is

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This song has made me fight for what I believe in no matter if I lose some people on my journey. I can connect with this song emotionally not only because of its strong message but what it stands for. In the song Rachel talks about how if no one else believes, she still has a fight left in her. This message makes me feel like I will always have a fight in me no matter how hard life will get. This song is a perfect song for me, because sometimes I forget that my voice matter and it makes me realize that it does

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The attitudes to grief over the loss of a loved one are presented in two thoroughly different ways in the two poems of ‘Funeral Blues’ and ‘Remember’. Some differences include the tone towards death as ‘Funeral Blues’ was written with a more mocking, sarcastic tone towards death and grieving the loss of a loved one, (even though it was later interpreted as a genuine expression of grief after the movie “Four Weddings and a Funeral” in 1994), whereas ‘Remember’ has a more sincere and heartfelt tone towards death. In addition, ‘Funeral Blues’ is entirely negative towards death not only forbidding themselves from moving on but also forbidding the world from moving on after the tragic passing of the loved one, whilst ‘Remember’ gives the griever

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Some times we just want to start over again and the song perfectly portrays that. Also it saids “… screams but no one hears a thing” Guy Montag was trying to tell his wife about books but as much as he tried she wouldn 't listen to him like the song. In the story theres a lot of conflict that had happen but like the song saids that after a hurricane theres a rainbow. When all the bad stuff that is happening in his life its like the hurricane and the rainbow can be when he found the hobos that weren 't just hobos. Set fire to the rain by Adele expresses the feelings that Guy Montag could have been feeling.

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