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Music saturates today’s society. Television, movies, and of course, the radio surrounds us with music. Songs possess more than just catchy words and a good beat. Writers compose lyrics to create a feeling and meaning for the song. John Rzeznik shows his imag ....

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.... simile. This shows how the writer can not connect with his lover, because he can not sense reality within her. The writer uses another literary technique, the repetitive use of the word “And.” Rzeznik uses “And” at the beginning of every verse. This shows a way of continuing his thoughts to stress a point and keeps the reader interested. This song contains a sad and depressing tone. The writer attempts to reach out and understand his lover. While he also wants her to see and comprehend him, but not as the world would, as he writes, “‘Cause I don’t think that they’d (the world) understand.” In the first verse, or stanza, the re ....