Metaphors

"One" U2

U2's "One" is a powerful song that contains a metaphor. The lyric "Love is a Temple" compares the unrelated objects of love to a temple. The song deals with the recent breakup of the narrator and his/her lover. The sex of the narrator is never determined within the lyrics. The speaker in the song is visited by "the one" they broke up with. The narrator asks if he/she has come to apologize for their mistakes, or to continue their arguments. The narrator feels regretful for his actions by asking "Did I disappoint you", "Did I ask too much." However, the two have not arrived at a point where they can work it out and become the "one" united as a couple. "Will it make it easier on you now, You got someone to blame" shows that the two are full of resentment still. U2's "One" is a great song that exemplifies regret.

Is it getting better
Or do you feel the same
Will it make it easier on you now
You got someone to blame
You say...

One love
One life
When it's one need
In the night
One love
We get to share it
Leaves you baby if you
Don't care for it

Did I disappoint you
Or leave a bad taste in your mouth
You act like you never had love
And you want me to go without
Well it's...

Too late
Tonight
To drag the past out into the light
We're one, but we're not the same
We get to
Carry each other
Carry each other
One...
Have you come here for forgiveness
Have you come to raise the dead
Have you come here to play Jesus
To the lepers in your head

Did I ask too much
More than a lot
You gave me nothing
Now it's all I got
We're one
But we're not the same
Well we
Hurt each other
Then we do it again
You say
Love is a temple
Love a higher law
Love is a temple
Love the higher law
You ask me to enter
But then you make me crawl
And I can't be holding on
To what you got
When all you got is hurt
One love
One blood
One life
You got to do what you should
One life
With each other
Sisters
Brothers
One life
But we're not the same
We get to
Carry each other
Carry each other

One...life

One


"I'll Be There For You" Bon Jovi

Bon Jovi's songs have repeatedly topped the charts for their dominant lyrics that inspire. "I'll Be There For You" is a perfect love song that displays a man's love for the woman he worships. The narrator asks her for a second chance after he regrets his decision of leaving her alone and on her own. The song is full of metaphors left and right. The lyrics are set in the first person, so the narrator refers to himself as "I". He continuously states the things that he will now perform for the one he loves. An example of a task is that he will "be the wine" when she gets drunk, to show how close he would like the relationship to be. Regret is found everywhere in Bon Jovi's lyrics of "I'll Be There For You."

I guess this time youre really leaving
I heard your suitcase say goodbye
And as my broken heart lies bleeding
You say true love in suicide

You say youre cried a thousand rivers
And now youre swimming for the shore
You left me drowning in my tears
And you wont save me anymore

Now Im praying to God youll give me one more chance, girl

Ill be there for you
These five words I swear to you
When you breathe I want to be the air for you
Ill be there for you
Id live and Id die for you
Steal the sun from the sky for you
Words cant say what a love can do
Ill be there for you

I know you know were had some good times
How they have their own hiding place
I can promise you tomorrow
But I cant buy back yesterday

And baby you know my hands are dirty
But I wanted to be your valentine
Ill be the water when you get thirsty, baby
When you get drink, Ill be the wine

Ill be there for you
These five words I swear to you
When you breathe I want to be the air for you
Ill be there for you
Id live and Id die for you
Steal the sun from the sky for you
Words cant say what a love can do
Ill be there for you

Solo

And I want there when you were happy
I wasnt there when you were down
I didnt mean to miss your birthday, baby
I wish Id seen you blow those candles out

Ill be there for you
These five words I swear to you
When you breathe I want to be the air for you
Ill be there for you
Id live and Id die for you
Steal the sun from the sky for you
Words cant say what a love can do
Ill be there for you