Exercise 4 – Lyric Evaluation and Being Singular

Lyric Evaluation:

The Way She Feels by Between the Trees

Found above are the lyrics to one of my all-time favorite songs, The Way She Feels by Between the Trees. After seeing this band perform this song live, I can provide a first hand experience of the atmosphere that this song provokes from the band, the audience, and myself. It is through this atmosphere that I will connect it to the actual narrative from the song lyrics.

To give a brief narrative meaning of the song:
Young girl is a cuter. She is constantly hiding her knifes and pain from her parents who are always intruding upon her. They don’t understand her; she’s deeply depressed. She meets a boy and finds comfort in his arms and life. He tells her how much it hurts him to see her cut herself. She puts down her knife and finds relief in his eyes.

The rock music style expresses this theme by beginning the song in a very solemn, constant rhythm. Prior to the chorus, she has not cut herself. The chorus peaks up a little bit as she begins to cut herself. The next verse is solemn and constant in rhythm as she is recovering from her cuts. The music style becomes almost helpless or desperate sounding with the lower pitch in his tone to express the words that the boy is telling her “the deeper you cut, the deeper i hurt.”. The drums amplify then die down a little when she opens her eyes to find relief in his life. The ending of the song ends almost in a celebration with a quicker tempo (celebration as she stops cutting).

The atmosphere of this song is very hurtful and painful that ultimately ends in inspiration. Physically the band members strain and cry out as if they, themselves, are the cutters in the story. The audience relates to the narrative and reflects to either a past or a loved ones’ past. The ending mood results in some tears and an overall feeling of inspiration.

Being Singular:

Orality – with an identity as a part of a whole (member of the family; member of the community).  I have multiple, clear, defined roles in both the family and community aspect.  As with my family, I have the responsibility as an older sister, the humbleness as my father’s daughter, and the admiration as my mother’s daughter.  My role is to continue my family’s hard work and dedication.  I must maintain the family farm and the family’s honorable respect in the community.  In the community, I am an aspiring engineering to physically built a future and improve a present.  State of mind for both family and community is to be pro-active, reliable, motivated, reasonable, inspiring, and helpful.

Literacy – I play the role of a student who is determined, motivated, and passionate.  To go to the stars requires going above and beyond your own personal limits.  If planet Earth is a box then my career literally and physically requires me to step outside the box.  For athletes, practice makes perfect.  For math students, repetition of math problems makes perfect.  For engineering students, repetition of math problems with physical applications with constantly changing variables and situations makes (near) perfect.

Electracy – I play the role as an inputer.  I input data and information to the electracy system to output an avatar.  I am merely the X in the X+Y=Z equation.  To define my variables: X=my brain, Y=internet/media processes, Z=output Avatar/creation/new form thought.  My state of mind is to inform or tell or write or express.  In turn, the media transmitted to everyone else is an evolution of thought processes.

It is our collective singularities that make a family or a community or a business or world-wide electracy across the web or movie database.  To reach inside and fully develop your role would help in producing your wide-image and role in all electracy aspects and community and career components.

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