assignment 7

Lyrics to If It Means A Lot To You :
Hey darling, I hope you're good tonight
And I know you don't feel right when I'm leaving
Yeah, I want it but no, I don't need it
Tell me something sweet to get me by
'Cause I can't come back home 'til they're singin'

La, la la la, la la la
'Til everyone is singin'

If you can wait 'til I get home
Then I swear to you that we can make this last
(La la la)
If you can wait 'til I get home
Then I swear come tomorrow, this will all be in our past
It might be for the best

Hey sweetie, I need you here tonight
And I know that you don't wanna be leaving
Yeah, you want it but I can't help it
I just feel complete when you're by my side
But I know you can't come home 'til they're singin'

La, la la la, la la la
'Til everyone is singin'
La, la la la, la la la

If you can wait 'til I get home
Then I swear to you that we can make this last
(La la la)
If you can wait 'til I get home
Then I swear come tomorrow, this will all be in our past
It might be for the best

You know you can't give me what I need
And even though you mean so much to me
I can wait through everything
Is this really happening?
I swear I'll never be happy again
And don't you dare say we can just be friends
I'm not some boy that you can sway
We knew it'd happen eventually

La, la la la, la la la
Now everybody's singin'
La, la la la, la la la
Now everybody's singin'
(If you can wait 'til I get home)
La, la la la, la la la
Now everybody's singin'
(Then I swear we can make this last)
La, la la la, la la la
Now everybody's singin'

If you can wait 'til I get home
Then I swear we can make this last

     Have you ever been in this situation?  Its brutal right?  "If it Means A lot to you" by A Day To Remember is a song with a plot about a couple.  Once again the man has to leave home for a tour, but most importantly he has to leave his love behind.  After he's gone for a while she can't stand being alone all the time and breaks up with him.  This song also has many poetic devices.  Of course this "poem" is a lyric poem.  It expresses the feelings that this man has for his girlfriend.  If she can just wait till he gets home than they can get through anything.  In the seventh stanza "I swear ill never be happy again" is a hyperbole. Eventually you get over a broken heart in most cases, but he makes it an extreme exaggeration.  Throughout the poem 'La, la la la, la la la is repeated. This an example of the poetic device onomatopoeia.  Onomatopoeia is a word that imitates a sound.  It is also used as parallelism.  "Cause I can't come back home 'til they're singin" symbolizes the couple being back together again.  At first I was a little confused about what "til they're singin" meant, but I figured out that it meant that once he'd been to all the cities and pleased all his fans they'd be singing his songs and then he could come home to his girlfriend.  In a nut shell the theme of this poem is choosing what/who the most important thing/ people are to you personally.  In this case the singer picked his music as a priority to his girl.  Weather he regretted his decision after no one knows.