Blog about your favorite song. Type out the lyrics and explain how the sound and rhythm of the song work to enhance the meaning. Explain why the song is important to you.
My favorite song is "Show Me What I'm Looking For" by Carolina Liar. It has never been particularly important to me; I just love how the song sounds. However, it has become more meaningful to me these past few weeks, what with the stress applying to transfer to universities. The lyrics "show me what I'm looking for" describes the roadblock in my life where I have to decide what is it I want to major in and what direction I'm seeking for my future. The line "Mistakes become regrets" is one of my favorite lines in the song because I've come to regret the B in a Philosophy class that completely skewered my GPA. On a serious note however, the line reminds me that any time I procrastinate, it will come back to haunt me.
The song sounds a bit wistful, but not wistful enough to be sad - I have never liked sad songs. Like a poem, songs have rimes, and this song has rimes as well. There's a rime in almost every other line. There is no fixed rhythm, although the last words in the lines are stressed. The rimes are mostly masculine rimes, where there is a stress on the final syllable, and where most of the rimes are one-syllable. Like in this part,
"Wait, I'm wrong,
Should have done better than this
Please, I'll be strong, I'm finding it hard to resist
Show me what I'm looking for"
The song is about how a person is not sure how to proceed in his/her life. Confused and feeling lost, the person decides to turn to God for an answer (of course, the part "Oh Lord" in the song could just be used because it sounds good, but I like to think that it is a true reference to God).
There are discernible pauses in the song which enhances the singer's plight. If he sang the song without pauses, the lines would not have as much meaning. There is a pause at the end of every line as well, including the lines in the chorus. They are somewhere in between run-on lines and end-stopped lines - the pauses are not complete stops, but they are not too short either.
Show Me What I'm Looking For - Carolina Liar
Wait, I'm wrong
Should've done better than this
Please, I'll be strong
I'm finding it hard to resist
So show me what I'm looking for
Save me, I'm lost
Oh Lord I've been waiting for you
I'll pay any cost
Save me from being confused
Show me what I'm looking for
Show me what I'm looking for
Oh Lord
Don't let go
I've wanted this far too long
Mistakes become regrets
I've learned to love abuse
Please show me what I'm looking for
Save me, I'm lost
Oh Lord I've been waiting for you
I'll pay any cost
Save me from being confused
Show me what I'm looking for
Show me what I'm looking for
Oh Lord
Show me what I'm looking for
Show me what I'm looking for
Show me what I'm looking for
Save me, I'm lost
Oh Lord I've been waiting for you
I'll pay any cost
To save me from being confused
Wait, I'm wrong
I can't do better than this
I'll pay any cost
Save me from being confused
Show me what I'm looking for
Show me what I'm looking for
Show me what I'm looking for
Show me what I'm looking for
Oh Lord
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