(anaphora),
(idiom),
(imagery),
(pun),
consternation,
craven,
daunting,
disconcerting,
heedless,
ignorant,
oblivious,
pusillanimous,
redoubtable,
timorous,
tremulous,
unwitting,
[Eels]
You don't have a clue what it is like to be next to you
I'm here to tell you that it is good, that it is true
Birds singing a song, old paint is peeling,
This is that fresh, that fresh feeling
Words can't be that strong, my heart is reeling,
This is that fresh, that fresh feeling
Try, try to forget, what's in the past, tomorrow is here
Love, orange sky above, lighting your way, there's nothing to fear
Some people are good, babe in the 'hood, so pure and so free
I'd make a safe bet, you're gonna get whatever you need
VOCABULARY
These adjectives are related to not having a clue:
- ignorant
- oblivious
- unwitting
- heedless
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These words are related to the concept of fear:
+ Nouns that are similar to "fear"
- consternation
- trepidation
- perturbation
+ Adjectives that express the idea of "causing fear":
- formidable
- redoubtable
- daunting
- disconcerting
+ Adjectives about "being afraid":
- timorous
- tremulous
- craven
- pusillanimous
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LITERARY TERMS
- One interpretation of these lyrics is that the singer is encouraging someone to forget the past and focus on the "fresh feeling" of the present and the promise of the future. He uses imagery that can suggest a feeling of happiness: "birds singing a song." The image of old paint peeling can bring to mind the idea of walls needing a fresh coat of paint or a snake shedding its skin.
- The line "I'm here to tell you that it is good, that it is true" contains an example of anaphora.
- The phrase "fresh feeling" is alliterative.
- The idiom "babe in the woods" refers to an innocent, naive person; it originated in a 16th century ballad about two children who get lost in a forest. The phrase "babe in the 'hood" is a pun that modernizes the concept by replacing "woods" with a shortened form of "neighborhood" and furthers the sentiment that some people are good by virtue of being pure.
- imagery: the use of descriptive language to create mental pictures or represent ideas
- anaphora: the repetition of a word or set of words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences
- alliteration: the repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of words in a group
- idiom: a term whose figurative meaning does not reflect the literal definitions of the words it contains
- pun: a play on words suggesting different meanings of either the same word or phrase or words or phrases that sound alike
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THE SONG
