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 * By: Nathan Strauss, Shaun Henry, and Lucillia M

Morose:** __And the hardest part Was letting go not taking part Was the hardest part__

__Oh and I I wish that I could work it out__

__Was letting go not taking part You really broke my heart And I tried to sing But I couldn't think of anything__

__Everything I know is wrong Everything I do it just comes undone And everything is torn apart Oh and thats the hardest part__
 * -"The Hardest Part"- Coldplay**

//**Explanation:**// Characteristics of morose can be found in the beat and the lyrics of this song. The line, "Everything I do it just comes undone" certainly seems to show a unhappy and melancholy feel to what the artist is saying, especially, when combined with the somber tone of the music accompanying the lyrics. Several times during the song, certain words are dragged out to give the feeling of unhappiness. __And the hardest part...Was letting go not taking part...Was the hardest part__- These opening lyrics of the song set the morose tone by starting and ending with the "hardest part." This gives the feeling that the singer is upset and dwells on the gloomy event. "Was letting go not taking part" shows that the dejection is more depressing because it was self inflicted and something that of which is not easy to let go. __Oh and I...I wish that I could work it out__- Saying "Oh" supports the narrator's feeling of woe. When we are depressed we tend to wish we had done something differently which is stated in the next line of the song. __Was letting go not taking part...You really broke my heart...And I tried to sing...But I couldn't think of anything__- The tone of morose is clear in this section because the line "Was letting go not taking part" was repeated, stressing that the sad feelings linger and deepening the mood. "You really broke my heart" is a melancholy feeling that everyone can associate with, making the tone more obvious. "And I tried to sing...But I couldn't think of anything" again shows that the singer is torn by not being able to do anything right. __Everything I know is wrong...Everything I do it just comes undone...And everything is torn apart...Oh and thats the hardest part__- The first line of this stanza -- "Everything I know is wrong" -- shows his distress in failing. "Everything I do it just comes undone" again leads to understanding and supportiong why the song has a morose tone. The depressing emotions are finally sumed up with the last two lines "And everything is torn apart...Oh and thats the hardest part" -- discomfort is certain where it says "torn apart." The musicial accompaniment throughout the line "Everything I do it just comes undone" includes a piano part which adds to the melancholy mood -- it has a softer and less energetic sound. When the lines are sung, they accend in pitch only to drop to lower notes starting with the words: "is torn apart". This drop to a lower pitches expresses the sad feeling as one that worsens.

Attention to detail is superb! This may be the best analysis of lyrics and tone I have had the pleasure to read so far! Kudos...

__An old man turned ninety-eight He won the lottery and died the next day It's a black fly in your Chardonnay It's a death row pardon two minutes too late__
 * Ironic:**

__It's like rain on your wedding day It's a free ride when you've already paid It's the good advice that you just didn't take Who would've thought ... it figures__

__And life has a funny way of helping you out when You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up In your face__

__It's a traffic jam when you're already late It's a no-smoking sign on your cigarette break It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife__
 * -"Ironic"-** **Alanis Morissette**

//**Explanation:**// The entire song, which itself is called "Ironic," describes a plethora of things that can plainly be described as ironic. The song starts off lines with something pleasant, typically turning them into an unforeseen misfortune in the end. The events mentioned are very coincidental, and when combined with the sing-songy tone of the music, seem to add a sort of 'disapointing' tone to the song. Nevertheless, the lyrics are intentionally ironic. __An old man turned ninety-eight...He won the lottery and died the next day...It's a black fly in your Chardonnay...It's a death row pardon two minutes too late__- Each of these different events -- winning the lottery and dying, a fly in your expensive wine, a pardon for a crime after the man has been executed -- shows outcomes that end up contrary to what should have occured. The first and second parts of each line have opposite meanings -- winning and dying, a low-life and high class, a pardon and death. In the incongruity of the statements comes some kind of humor. The line "It's a death row pardon two minutes too late" perfectly shows ironyin this song. Morissette's voice fluctuates with each word, giving stress to the word 'pardon'. Then as she reaches the word 'late', her voice softens significatly in accordance with the event. This lyric is accompanied by an acoustic guitar, which elegantly plays crisp chords that vary in scale. This helps to give feeling to the words and the sense of irony in them. __It's like rain on your wedding day...It's a free ride when you've already paid...It's the good advice that you just didn't take...Who would've thought ... it figures__- Again we see opposite and unnecpected instances happening. They can be described as a satire because of the mockery in ending up on the path of unfortunate mishaps. "Who would've thought" is the singer's stance in which she agrees that the events are unexpected. "It figures" shows humor in this as though the bad events would have happened anyway without justification. __And life has a funny way of helping you out when...You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up...In your face__- The line "and life has a funny way of helping you out when" shows that the singer finds comedy in the turns-of-events described. "You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up" helps to show that things are not always expected. Her use of "in your face" tells us that its is usually ouselves that get the most grief from irony. __It's a traffic jam when you're already late...It's a no-smoking sign on your cigarette break...It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife__- Moreover, Morissette establishes irony with more events in juxapositon with contrasting ones.

Again, this group really exceeded the expectations of this project! What sophisticated and meaningful interpretations!

On a cloudy afternoon Gone too soon__** Here one day Gone one night__** Dying with the rising of the moon Gone too soon__**
 * Reflection: Luci Mason**
 * -"Gone Too Soon"- Michael Jackson**
 * __Like the loss of sunlight
 * __Born to amuse, to inspire, to delight
 * __Like a sunset

On a cloudy afternoon Gone too soon__** I chose this line because it gives a sense of what Michael Jackson is feeling about this loss he has recently suffered. He is comparing his loss to a bright beautiful sunny day becoming a cloudy day in as quick as an instant Here one day Gone one night__** In this line, it is clear that when he says here one day gone one night, he is reflecting on how Ryan, the one who died, was here doing fine then the next day he was gone forever. He also describes what he believes we as people are here on the earth to do, throughout this entire song he is reflecting on different aspects of life that compare to the loss of his dear friend. Dying with the rising of the moon Gone too soon__** This is the closing line of his song, in this line he directly talks about death and indirectly compares it to Ryan's death. He is using the sunset as a way to describe in depth how it was when Ryan died.
 * Analysis:**
 * __Like the loss of sunlight
 * __Born to amuse, to inspire, to delight
 * __Like a sunset

As a huge MJ fan, I am pleased to see how you are able to dissect this somewhat obscure song and make it relevant!