Download "Fresh Feeling" here.
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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.
That fresh feeling.
This is that fresh feeling.
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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
Download "Dyslexic Heart" here.
You shoot me glances and they're so hard to read
I miscontrue [interpret incorrectly] what you mean
Slip me a napkin and now that you start
Is this your name or a doctor's eye chart?
I try and comprehend you but I got a dyslexic heart
I ain't dying to offend you, I got a dyslexic heart
Thanks for the book, now my table is ready
Is this a library or bar?
Between the covers I thought you were ready
A half-angel, half-tart
Do I read you correctly, lead me directly
Help me with this part
Do I hate you? Do I date you?
Do I got a dyslexic Heart?
You keep swayin'… what are you sayin'?
Thinking 'bout stayin'?
Or are you just playing, making passes
Well, my heart could use some glasses
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Dyslexia is a reading disorder associated with an impairment in the ability to read and comprehend words. It may also involve challenges in interpreting auditory or visual information. Dyslexia is a pathological condition that affects people, so describing a heart as "dyslexic" is personification. Similarly, hearts do not wear glasses.
The series of questions "Do I hate you? Do I date you? Do I got a dyslexic heart?" is an example of anaphora because three successive sentences begin with the words "do I."
The couplet "Do I hate you? Do I date you?" is an example of antithesis because the sentences have a similar structure and they express contrasting feelings (assuming that dating someone is indicative of a lack of hatred).
- personification: the assignment of human characteristics to inanimate objects or nature in a direct and explicit manner
- anaphora: the repetition of a word or set of words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences
- couplet: a pair of successive lines of verse that generally rhyme and have the same meter
- antithesis: the placement of words, phrases, or sentences in a parallel structure to form a balanced contrast of ideas
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