I chose the song Cough Syrup by Young the Giant. This song is easy to analyze because it is all a metaphor, it has mood, and rhymes. The song has a slightly depressing but more overcoming difficulties mood. The song has movements of the mood where the speaker is hopeful but that is immediately followed by a drop in the mood. However, the music and the tone that the singer uses is very calm throughout the whole song.
The whole song is a very unspecific metephor. So it can be interpreted differently depending on the person. I think that the speaker is referring to the cough syrup being a remedy (or way) of dealing with whatever is troubling you. The singer talks about "fishes in the sea their staring at me" and "zombies in the park their looking for my heart" are both metaphors for people who have bothered/hurt the singer in the past.
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I love this! I don't think I've ever heard this song before, but it does sound very interesting! It seems a little different, but also very unique and expresses many emotions in weird ways. I don't know many songs that revolve around metaphors and similes (or maybe I just didn't know), so I think this song is very different from any song I've ever heard!
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