All The Little Lights

The song I choose for this assignment was "Let Her Go" by Passenger, on the album All The Little Lights. I do count this song as poetry, not just because it's a love song but because of the way it's lyrical and beautifully written.

The theme is just that you never know how much you actually have until it's gone, maybe forever. In this song, it's showing a guy who lost his true love. You didn't know how much this person meant to you until they left, you feel despondent, saddened, and wishing you knew how much that person meant to you before they're gone. Letting go of someone you truly cared about is one of the hardest things you have to go to go through life. Although change isn't necessarily a bad thing for chance is the only thing that is constant in this week so be real wise about who is worth keeping.

The first verse explains practically the song. most of the time you normally only need light when you don't have any, but during a time when you don't have it, it is not important to you. "You only miss the sun when it starts to snow" is basically saying the sun is clearly everywhere and in all seasons but it is trying to say that when it starts to snow you tend to crave the heat more, the sun, the warmer days that you enjoyed so much. But through the hottest says of the year you'd sometimes just wish that it wasn't the case and that it would be totally opposite. That line he uses alliteration by repeating the consonant sound of "s" which makes the lyrics flow better and makes it more fun to listen to. "Only know you love her when you let her go" when you love someone or something and then its gone from your life for whatever reason, your mood changes and all of a sudden you feel saddened, or depressed, and a heart that is now filled with nothing as you realize how much that someone or something meant to you.

Staring at the bottom of your glass

Hoping one day you'll make a dream last

But dreams come slow and they go so fast

You see her when you close your eyes

Maybe one day you'll understand why  

Everything you touch surely dies

The middle verse leads directly into self-reflection. Staring at the bottom of your glass symbolizes drinking and depression. Although you just hope yo have your love in your life again you realize that she is gone. He is disheartened with the memories of her and all the mistakes that hes made. In the end he just wants to make sense of it all. "Everything you touch surly dies" explains that he has made other aberration in his life, maybe its not his first heartbreak that he is going through, so now he views himself as a repeat failure in a way that represents the idea that maybe hes not good for anyone or anything. That line is also a hyperbole because he uses it by describing that realistically things don't die when you touch them it is not meant to be taken literally

Staring at the ceiling in the dark

Same old empty feeling in your heart

Cause love comes slow and it goes so fast

Well you see her when you fall asleep

But never to touch and never to keep
Cause you loved her too much and you dived too deep

The last verse describes his thoughts while laying in the bed looking up at the ceiling. The room somewhat symbolizes how he feels in a way. Alone in a dark room feeling confused and depressed. He still feels the same sadness of missing her. He constantly keeps thinking and dreaming of her but it does not bring her back to him in reality. He is heart broken because of how much he loved and cherished her but "Divided too deep" is a confusing lyric to me. I just assumed that if could mean that he gave it all he had from the depths of his heart or that he literally dived too deep, meaning he drowned or died on the inside by going to far from her.