How to write a .....

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Metaphor song? Can someone help give me some lyrics…I cant think of any and its due soon…

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hey teelo...i just googled and found loads of different songs with the use of metaphor...just posting three here. i dont know how much of metaphor these songs have as i did metaphor in school and cant seem to remember what exactly it is even by looking at the definition again. hope this helps.

**(Unfaithful by Rihanna)

Story of my life, searching for the right
But it keeps avoiding me
Sorrow in my soul cause it seems that wrong
Really loves my company

He's more than a man and this is more than love
The reason that the sky is blue
But clouds are rolling in because I'm gone again
And to him I just can't be true

And I know that he knows I'm unfaithful
And it kills him inside
To know that I am happy with some other guy
I can see him dying

I don't wanna do this anymore
I don't wanna be the reason why
Every time I walk out the door
I see him die a little more inside

I don't wanna hurt him anymore
I don't wanna take away his life
I don't wanna be a murderer

I feel it in the air as I'm doing my hair
Preparing for another date
A kiss up on my cheek, he's here reluctantly
As if I'm gonna be out late

I say I won't be long just hanging with the girls
A lie I didn't have to tell
Because we both know where I'm about to go
And we know it very well

Cause I know that he knows I'm unfaithful
And it kills him inside
To know that I am happy with some other guy
I can see him dying

I don't wanna do this anymore
I don't wanna be the reason why
Every time I walk out the door
I see him die a little more inside

I don't wanna hurt him anymore
I don't wanna take away his life
I don't wanna be a murderer

Our love, his trust
I might as well take a gun
And put it to his head
Get it over with
I don't wanna do this
Anymore, anymore

And I don't wanna do this anymore
I don't wanna be the reason why
And every time I walk out the door
I see him die a little more inside

And I don't wanna hurt him anymore
I don't wanna take away his life
I don't wanna be a murderer
A murderer, no no no
Yeah
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**(Born to run by Bruce Springsteen)

In the day we sweat it out in the streets of a runaway american dream
At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines
Sprung from cages out on highway 9,
Chrome wheeled, fuel injected and steppin out over the line
Baby this town rips the bones from your back
Its a death trap, it's a suicide rap
We gotta get out while were young
`cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run

Wendy let me in I wanna be your friend
I want to guard your dreams and visions
Just wrap your legs round these velvet rims
And strap your hands across my engines
Together we could break this trap
Well run till we drop, baby well never go back
Will you walk with me out on the wire
`cause baby Im just a scared and lonely rider
But I gotta find out how it feels
I want to know if love is wild, girl I want to know if love is real

Beyond the palace hemi-powered drones scream down the boulevard
The girls comb their hair in rearview mirrors
And the boys try to look so hard
The amusement park rises bold and stark
Kids are huddled on the beach in a mist
I wanna die with you wendy on the streets tonight
In an everlasting kiss

The highways jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive
Everybodys out on the run tonight but there's no place left to hide
Together wendy well live with the sadness
Ill love you with all the madness in my soul
Someday girl I don't know when were gonna get to that place
Where we really want to go and well walk in the sun
But till then tramps like us baby we were born to run**

**(fast car by tracy champman)

You got a fast car
I want a ticket to anywhere
Maybe we make a deal
Maybe together we can get somewhere

Anyplace is better
Starting from zero got nothing to lose
Maybe we'll make something
But me myself I got nothing to prove

You got a fast car
And I got a plan to get us out of here
I been working at the convenience store
Managed to save just a little bit of money
We won't have to drive too far
Just 'cross the border and into the city
You and I can both get jobs
And finally see what it means to be living

You see my old man's got a problem
He live with the bottle that's the way it is
He says his body's too old for working
I say his body's too young to look like his
My mama went off and left him
She wanted more from life than he could give
I said somebody's got to take care of him
So I quit school and that's what I did

You got a fast car
But is it fast enough so we can fly away
We gotta make a decision
We leave tonight or live and die this way

I remember we were driving driving in your car
The speed so fast I felt like I was drunk
City lights lay out before us
And your arm felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulder
And I had a feeling that I belonged
And I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone

You got a fast car
And we go cruising to entertain ourselves
You still ain't got a job
And I work in a market as a checkout girl
I know things will get better
You'll find work and I'll get promoted
We'll move out of the shelter
Buy a big house and live in the suburbs
You got a fast car
And I got a job that pays all our bills
You stay out drinking late at the bar
See more of your friends than you do of your kids
I'd always hoped for better
Thought maybe together you and me would find it
I got no plans I ain't going nowhere
So take your fast car and keep on driving

You got a fast car
But is it fast enough so you can fly away
You gotta make a decision
You leave tonight or live and die this way**

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Peace teelobhain

You need lyrics for a song? What is the theme for it? Style and mood of song ... then coming up with the appropriate metaphors will be easy.

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They just asked to write a song on our own using the metaphor style...

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:) Peace again

No that was not my question ... What theme do YOU want to give it? What style do YOU want to give it and mood too ... I'm taking you through the stages of developing a piece. The first stages are that you need to consider the context and the story needs to be played itself (without the metaphor) in your mind first. So tell me the story that you want to convert in to a metaphor song.

Think about what will make you "sing" - what drives you to sing about it?

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Saddness :(...?

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Peace teelobhain

Not exactly a person with a lot to say are you? :)

Sadness comes in many forms about many different things you need to explain what they are and some story that made you sad. Then this can be played on.

Use metaphors such as dark cloud to represent sadness and it will follow that the rain or shadow produced by this cloud are products of sadness ... rain being tears and shadow being gloominess or loneliness.

Sadness can be a burden so playing on the idea of heavy laden clothes drenched, coldness, bitterness, pain and other offshoot concepts should be exploited. Icy winds - poison - barbs are metaphors for the offshoots.

So let's say that a personal encounter with someone made you sad because it brought back old memories of a distant love ... then this can be the theme of the song ... All of this is part of the planning process.

You need to decide next on the style of beat and rhythm and make it suit the theme.

Then you need to construct much like poetry the words. Make up a chorus it is often easier to do this just after the first verse and then prepare the other verses.

In our example above we can say:

Verse 1

Haunted by a distant memory all I see is you
You're a curse that stops the sun from coming through
Shades of grey and black that is all I am to them
I want to sing a sombre tune, can't care less if they condemn

Chorus
Dark cloud, O dark cloud you're my only friend
He crushed my only pearl that I still cannot mend
Dark cloud, O dark cloud pour for me once more
Intoxicate me in your shadow and I will lock the door

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Aaisee baat nahi hai, meray samajh mein he nahi aaraha karna kiya hai lol...issi liyeh - this is my first time - till I got this assignment i thought songs are happy, peppy or sad (i.e. indian songs) lol.

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Oh..this is Informative thanks...mein yeh example chaap loon? :D

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^ Yeah take it ... it's yours :) Peace

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But plagiarism ka masla toh nai hoga na?

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ab angrezi to mujhe aatii nahiiN magar haN urdu meN agar chaahiye to maiN dast bastah Haazir-e-Khidmat huN lol :D

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dast? :D :p

Aap urdu mein kuch deejiyeh aur yahan pay jinki achi English hai unko request karen gay kay mujhay translate kar kay day day - what say?

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tarjumalation ke ba'd shaa'irii kaa maza kahaN rah jaataa hai ji...bilkul us Ghubbare kii taraH jiskii hawaa nikaal di jaaye to phus phus ka murabba ban jaataa hai :D

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Tarjumalation kay illawa mujhay kuch samajh nahi aaya :p

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kis planet se haiN aap lol :D hehe

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Hehe...oh okay abb samajh aagaya pehlay mein samji aapnay mushkil urdu likhi hai...murabba and all that abhi phir say phara toh samajh aagayy asaan hai.

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Khuda kaa laakh laakh shukr hai...maiN to aapkaa jawaab paRh ke soch rahaa thaa k shaayad qayaamat qareeb aa gaii hai jo urdu aapkii samajh meN nahiiN aa rahii lol :D

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Mujhay hard urdu samajh nahi aati..mujhay toh kabhi kabhi apni language bhi itni samajh nahi aati i.e. for example agar 5 levels hain toh i am on level 2 in all the languages.

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oh...tab to aapkaa Haal mere jaisaa hii hai...maiN bhii level 2 pe huNgaa shaayad :) and thats an optimistic view :)