Authors Note: I am doing my figurative piece on the song “Don’t Worry Child” because I particularly enjoy this song and decided since I like it so much why not analyze it and maybe find out it’s true meaning.
The reason, not to life but to the inside reasons, pains, and happiness that song writers interpret into the songs they write. They make you feel different moods throughout the song. Sometimes I feel moody when I’m listening to a song that I actually can understand the lyrics to. I think the song ‘Don’t Worry Child,” by Swedish House Mafia, was written with excellent figurative language. Some songs can give people hope or make them happy. This isn’t because of the beat of the song or anything like that. It’s the figurative language, the symbolism, and the imagery. That was what causes hope, sadness, and many other feelings in a song.
Songs of happiness are the best songs for those people who are just having a bad day. In the beginning of the song “Don’t Worry Child” the lyrics talk about how he lived in a happy home. This creates an image of just parents playing with their child. Shortly after it says “I was a king I had a gold throne” which is a metaphor. Obviously as a kid he wasn’t a king and he probably didn’t have a gold throne, but the song artist is talking about his child like he was a king so he would have had a good childhood.
Many people in the world are people that say that God has turned his back on them. This is a sign of loss of hope. In this song one of the main sentences that really stands out is “My father said, don’t you worry, don’t you worry child. See heavens got a plan for you.” which really could give someone hope. It symbolizes that there is always hope. Whatever happens, whatever goes wrong for you, you just need to hold on. Life is a bumpy ride, not just a walk on the beach.
Throughout the piece a specific mood is brought up with one very powerful line, “Don’t you worry. Don’t you worry child. See Heavens got a plan for you.” This gives the song listener (or reader) a feeling or mood of hope. In the big picture of life it’s saying that even things aren’t really going your way, you shouldn’t worry or put your head down. In the end if you stay strong and don’t let anything stand in your way, everything will work out for you in the end. Everything that is supposed to happen for you will happen. This chorus that many people listen to, mostly don’t realize how powerful it really is. In just two sentences this song gives you a great amount of hope and a reason to keep going forward and to let nothing stop you from reaching your goal.
Some people listen to songs because they like the chorus, some people listen to a song to help them get through something or to get hope. Those second and third reasons are where the figurative language come in. If a song wanted to give someone hope, but without figurative language it would say something like, “Don’t lose hope” but with figurative language, like in this song it could say something like, “See Heavens got a plan for you.” The one with the figurative language is more inspirational and means a little bit more. Just like that figurative language can give someone hope, or in other cases an uncountable amount of emotions like sadness, happiness or excitement.
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