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THE FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE USED ONE OF THE JASON MRAZ
ALBUMS IN 2008 ENTITLED “WE SING, WE DANCE, WE STEAL
THINGS”
A GRADUATING PAPER
Submitted to the Board Examiners as a Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree of SarjanaPendidikan (S.Pd) English
Education Department of Teacher Training and Education Faculty
State Institute for Islamic Studies (IAIN) Salatiga
Arranged By:
NURFIYANTI
113 08 028
ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION FACULTY
STATE INSTITUTE FOR ISLAMIC STUDIES (IAIN)
SALATIGA
2016
DECLARATION
بسم اهلل الّرمحن الّرحيم
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NURFIYANTI
113 08 028
WRITING ORIGINALNESS STATEMENT
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Who to state it,
Nurfiyanti
113 08 028
Salatiga,Sept 09th
2016
Hanung Triyoko, S.S., M.Hum., M.Ed.
The Lecturer of English Educational Department
State Institute for Islamic Studies (IAIN) Salatiga
ATTENTIVE COUNSELOR‟S NOTE
Case : Nurfiyanti’s Graduating Paper
Dear
The Head of State Islamic
Studies Institut of Salatiga
Assalamu’alaikum, Wr. Wb.
After reading and correcting Nurfiyanti‟s graduating paper entitled THE
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE USED ONE OF THE JASON MRAZ
ALBUMS IN 2008 ENTITLED “WE SING, WE DANCE, WE STEAL
THINGS”
I have decided and would like to propose that thist paper can be
accepted by the Teacher Training and Educational Faculty, I hope this paper
would be examined as soon as possible.
Wassalamu’alaikum, Wr. Wb.
Consultant,
Hanung Triyoko, S.S., M.Hum., M.Ed. NIP. 19730815 199903 1 003
A GRADUATING PAPER
THE FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE USED ONE OF THE JASON MRAZ
ALBUMS IN 2008 ENTITLED “WE SING, WE DANCE, WE STEAL
THINGS”
Written By:
NURFIYANTI
113 08 028
Has been brought to the board of examiners of English and Educational
Department of Teacher Training of Education Faculty of State Institute for Islamic
Studies (IAIN) Salatiga on September 30th
, 2016 and hereby considered to
completely fulfill of the requirement for degree of Sarjana Pendidikan Islam
(S.Pd.I) in English Education Department.
Boards of Examiners
Head : Dr. Sa‟adi, M. Ag
Secretary : Hanung Triyoko, S.S,M.Hum.,M.Ed
1st Examiners : Faizal Risdianto,S.S,M. Hum.
2nd Examiners : Ari Setiawan,M. M.
Salatiga, September 30th
2016
Head of Teacher Training and
Education Faculty
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NIP. 19670121 199903 1 002
MOTTO
Verily, every difficulty there is relief (By self)
DEDICATION
This graduating paper is whole hearedly dedication to :
1. Allah SWT and Prophet Muhammad SAW who always guides and
gives strength for me.
2. My beloved Mrs. Watiyem thanks for your trust. My beloved Mr.
Kusno thanks for all generosity.
3. My beloved husband, Agus Puji Narimo thanks for your love,support
and finance.
4. My beloved son, Yorgi Radhika Alvaro thanks for your encouragement.
5. My beloved sister, Martini thanks for your motivation.
6. All of my friends in TBI 2008 IAIN Salatiga.
7. All of my friends in IAIN Salatiga.
8. My friends of sharing in the same struggle (Nitha,Darul,Dwi,Restu).
Thanks for togetherness.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Bismillahirrahmanirrahim,
In the name of Allah, The Most Gracious and The Most Merciful, The
Lord of Universe. Because of Him, the writer could finish this graduating paper as
one of the requirement to finished in English and Department of Education
faculty at State Institute of Islamic Studies (IAIN) Salatiga.
Secondly, peace and salutation always be given to our prophet Muhammad
SAW who has guided us from the darkness to the lightness.
However, this success would not be achieved without supports, guidance,
advices, helps, and encouragements from individual and institution, and I
somehow realize that an appropriate moment for me to deepest gratitude for:
1. Mr. Dr. H. Rahmat Haryadi, M. Pd. as the Rector of State Institute for
Islamic Studies (IAIN) Salatiga.
2. Mr. Suwardi, M.Pd., as the Dean of Education Faculty.
3. Mrs. Noor Malihah, Ph. D. As a Head of English Edecational Department
of State Institute for Islamic Studies (IAIN) Salatiga
4. Mr. Hanung Triyoko, S.S., M.Hum., M.Ed., as a counselor who has
educated, supported, directed and given the writer advices, suggestions,
and recommendations for this graduation peper from beginning until the
end.
5. My parents Mrs. Watiyem and Mr. Kusno thanks for your trust all
generosity giving spirit and motivation.
6. My beloved husband, Agus Puji Narimo thanks for your love, support and
finance.
7. My beloved son, Yorgi Radhika Alvaro thanks for your encouragement.
8. My beloved sister, Martini thanks for your motivation.
9. All of the lecturers in English Department of IAIN Salatiga.
10. All of the staffs who have helped the writer in processing of graduating
paper administration.
Finally this graduating paper is expected to be able to provide useful
knowledge and information to the readers. The writer is pleased to accept more
suggestions and contributionsfrom the reader to the improvement of the
graduating paper.
Salatiga, September 14th
2016
The writer
Nurfiyanti NIM. 113 08 028
ABSTRACT
Nurfiyanti. 2016. The Figurative Language Used One of The Jason Mraz Albums
in 2008 Entitled “We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things”. Graduating paper
English Education Department of state Institute for Islamic studies (IAIN)
Salatiga. Counselor: Hanung Triyoko, S.S., M.Hum., M.Ed.
Keywords: figurative language
In this research writer will analyze songs lyric of Jason Mraz album We
Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things is so melancholic and simple but consist of
many languages learning about figurative language. These albums consist of 12
songs, this research will study and analyze about figurative language that there are
in Jason Mraz song. After reading the text of a song the listeners do not know
what the topic of the text is. They cannot understand the sentence that they read or
listen in the song simply. Every song has many massagers. The language used in
literary work has been specific language used in other communication. Music and
song are parts of this world of sound, and art is based on the organization.The
aims of this research are (1) what are the types of figurative language used in
Jason Mraz songs? (2) What are the massages in Jason Mraz song lyrics? (3)
What is the denotative and connotative meaning in Jason Mraz songs?
The reseach method that is used in this study, the writer used descriptive
method. According to Suharsimi Arikunto‟s (1990:309), descriptive studies are
design to obtain information concerning with the current status of phenomena.
They are directed toward determining the nature of situation as it exists of the
time of study. Thus there is no administration or control of a treatment as it is
found in an experimental study.
After analyzing, the of Jason Mraz Song album 2008 she gets 44 (fourty
four) figurative languages in all of songs. In this research the writer found,
everything you do "Metonymy, Hyperbole, Personification, Simile and paradox".
Connotation meaning sometimes makes the listeners cannot understand what it
means, so the writer tries to make it clearly. She explained the real meaning of
Jason Mraz Songs. Denotation meaning makes the listeners understand more. But
it is less interesting because the listeners have known the real meaning of the
songs. Based on the messages of Jason Mraz Songs album 2008, the writer think
that she wants to tell the listeners of Jason Mraz Songs album 2008, that love can
give a power to some on but in the contrary, love can make some one lass of
mind. Love is abstract thing and irrational.
TABLE OF CONTENT
TITLE ........................................................................................................ i
SYMBOL OF YARD ................................................................................ ii
DECLARATION ....................................................................................... iii
WRITING ORIGINALNESS STATEMENT .................................. iv
ATTENTIVE CONSELOR NOTES ....................................................... v
STATEMENT OF CERTIFICATION ................................................... vi
MOTTO ..................................................................................................... vii
DEDICATION ........................................................................................... viii
ACKNOWLEDGENMENT ..................................................................... ix
ABSTRACT ............................................................................................... xi
TABLE OF CONTENT ............................................................................ xii
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
A. Background of the Study............................................ 1
B. Statement of the problem ........................................... 3
C. Objectives of the Study .............................................. 4
D. Benefits of the Study .................................................. 4
E. The Limitation of The Study ...................................... 4
F. Definition of the Key Terms ...................................... 5
G. Review of Related Literature ..................................... 6
H. The Methodology of the Research....................... ...... 7
I. Graduating Paper Out Lines ....................................... 9
CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
A. Literature........................................................................................ 10
1. The Characteristic of Literature............................................... 10
2. Categories of Literature........................................................... 11
3. The Benefit of Reading Literature........................................... 11
4. Kinds of Literature.................................................................. 11
B. Figurative Language...................................................................... 12
1. Definition of Figurative Language........................................... 12
2. Types of Figurative Language.................................................. 16
3. Meanings.................................................................................. 23
CHAPTER III DATA AND CLASSIFICATION
A. Biography of Jason Mraz Singers.................................................. 24
B. Data Presentation.......................................................................... 28
C. Data Classification......................................................................... 29
CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS
A. Findings Discussion...................................................................... 34
B. Data Analysis Of Figurative Language......................................... 35
C. The Denotative Meaning and Connotative Meaning..................... 45
D. The Message that Contained
In Song‟s Album Jason Mraz Year 2008...................................... 55
CHAPTER V CLOSURE
A. Conclusions.................................................................................. 61
B. Suggestions.................................................................................. 62
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. The Background of the Study
Language is intimately tied to man‟s feeling and activity. It is bound up
with nationality, religion, and the feeling of self. It is used for work, work
ship, and play by everyone, be he beggar or banker, savage or civilized
(Robert Lado, 1964:11). Language variation language spoken by large
populations show marked differences among groups of speakers. These
variations appear geographically, historically, and socially. Everyone, for
example, talks about differences between American and British English, the
Spanish of Spain and of Latin American, Canadian French and the French of
France(Robert Lado, 1964:16).
According to Joshua A. Fishman and Suwito, communication with the
language of not only linguistic but rather determined by nonlinguistic factors,
such as social factors and situational factors. Social factors such as social
status, education level, economic level, age, and gender, whereas situational
factors refer to who speaks, the language of what, to whom, when, where, and
what issues are discussed. Means the domination of social factors and
situational factors in the use of language affects the emergence of language
variation.
In communication with someone else, many people need certain
medium that they called it as language, because they will not understand if one
people talk with other people who have different language. According to
Edward Sapir, language is a purely human and non-instinctive method of
communicating ideas, emotions, and desires by means of a system of
voluntarily produced symbols (Edward Sapir, 1921:8).
Figurative Language is one type of literary work which emphasis on
connotation rather than denotation meaning. Generally, Figurative language is
language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from
the literal interpretation. Language used in literary work has specification
based on languages use in other communication (Okta, 2010:3).
Figurative language is one with its literally in compatible term, forces
the readers to attend the connotation rather than to the denotation (Burhan
Nurgiyantoro, 1995:277). Language used in literally work has been specific
languages use in other communication; music and song are parts of this world
of sound (Endah Wahyuningsih, 2007:2).
Song lyrics is included of kind of literature because lyric is language
creation (poem) which contains of personal feeling expression. Song lyric is
like poem but it is served in song form. It attributes are imaginative but
nowadays. Song also contains critic to our government‟s wisdom, welfare,
miserable, etc. A lyric which is written by author, has destination that will be
delivered to audience. Song contains of word system, good diction, figurative
language, so it will makes it is not just in their ears but heart also can feel it.
Song is created by authors based on their life experiences, tell about someone
or another. Almost of people hear song be able toward their interest that
contains simple lyric, easy to understand and remember because they are in
growing faze. They learn by singing song that they like. Teenagers prefer
listen love song than other because almost of them feel in love in this age.
Mean while old people usually like slow song because their hearing are weak.
Song is more interesting if is sung by singer who has certain voice character
beside sing lyric also interesting. Singers give special voice that makes it touch
audience‟s feeling. Music arrangement also influences music power too. In
this research writer will analyze songs lyric of Jason Mraz album We Sing,
We Dance, We Steal Things is so melancholic and simple but consist of many
languages learning about figurative language. These albums consist of 12
songs, this research will study and analyze about figurative language that there
are in Jason Mraz song. After reading the text of a song the listeners do not
know what the topic of the text is. They cannot understand the sentence that
they read or listen in the song simply. Every song has many massagers. The
language used in literary work has been specific language used in other
communication. Music and song are parts of this world of sound, and art is
based on the organization. So, the writer makes research with title The
Figurative Language Used One of the Jason Mraz Album in 2008 Entitled“We
Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things”.
B. Statement of the Problem
From the background of the study, the writer would like to write down
problem statements as follows:
1. What are the types of figurative language used in Jason Mraz songs?
2. What are the messages in Jason Mraz song lyrics?
3. What is the denotative and connotative meaning of each song lyrics in
Jason Mraz songs?
C. The Objective of the Study
Considering the problems that formulated above the objectives of
research can be specified as follows:
1. To identify the types of figurative language used in Jason Mraz songs.
2. To reveal the message conveyed in Jason Mraz songs.
3. To identify the denotative and connotative meaning of each song lyrics
used in Jason Mraz songs.
D. The Benefit of Study
The result of the research is expected to be beneficial in two ways:
1. Practically, this research will give some knowledge about figurative
language like:
a. It will give additional knowledge to English student and English
lectures.
b. It will make student who like Jason Mraz‟s songs understand figurative
language in these songs.
c. It will add knowledge about figurative language analyzing in Jason
Mraz‟s songs.
2. Theoretically, this study will add the literature in linguistic about figurative
language.
E. The Limitation of The Study
The writer would like to limit this research, the limitations are:
1. This research will be limited by writer on analyzing the figurative of
language used by Jason Mraz‟s songs.
2. This research will be limited on the album entitled “we sing, we dance, we
steal things” of Jason Mraz songs.
3. This research examines the denotation and connotation meaning used by
Jason Mraz songs.
F. Definition of Key Terms
Figurative language consists of two words. Figurative means imitation,
meanwhile language is a set of signals and the structures and can be studied by
human being (Francis, 1992:244). Figurative language express of idea, opinion
or author‟s thinking which is consisting of syntax. That consists of word,
cause to pass certain condition and situations. Figurative language consist of
dictions of lexical chaises, sentences structures, describing, rime pattern and
else that used by art anchors or there are in literature creations. Then figurative
language is language is used by authors to create certain effect. From some
language experts above, so writer can concludes that figurative language is
language which is used by authors to deliver ideas, thinking and author‟s
opinion forward literature.
Lyrics are literature (poem) that contains personal feeling expressions,
word system of song. Song is sounds that consist of instrument voice and
singing, performance, way, etc. Song is music unity that consists of tone
arrangement consecutively. Song lyric is formed from language which is
produced by communication between song authors to song lovers. As written
discourses it is delivered by written medium at album subtitled and is called as
oral discourses because it can be heard by people. Lyric songs have certain
characteristic because it is served by using melody and sound which be able to
lyric songs. So it is more complete became supported by music arrangement
that add art value of song.
G. Review of Related Literature
In this research, the writer uses several the other previous theses as
related literature as follows:
The first review related to this research, and the title is “Figurative
Language Analysis in Letto’s song “ Truth, Cry and Lie” Album”. Which has
been researched by Muh Masruri in 2012, the Student of Islamic Studies
Institude (STAIN) Salatiga? In his thesis, he has analyzed about the figurative
language, According to him, the figurative language used Letto‟s song are
personification, ellipsis, rhetoric, metaphor, synecdoche pars pro toto, anti
climax, pleonasm and repetition.
The second review related to this research, and the title is “Figurative
Language Analysis in Celine Dion’ Songs”. Which has been researched by
Mokhamad in 2010, the student of State Islamic Studies Institude (STAIN)
Salatiga? In his thesis, he has analyzed about the figurative language.
According to him, the figurative used in Celine Dion‟s Songs are simile,
hyperbole, metonymy, personifications, etc in these songs. He analyzed
sentence by sentence in Celine Dion‟s songs.
The third review related to this research and the title is “A Descriptive
Study on Figurative Language Christian Bautista’s Song’s”. Which has been
researched by Afidatul Barokah in 2007? The student of State Islamic Studies
Institute (STAIN) Salatiga. In her thesis, he has analyzed about the figurative
language. According to him, the figurative used in Christian Bautista‟s are
simile, personification, metaphor and hyperbole.
The fourth review related to this research, and the title is “A
Descriptive study on Figurative Language used in West life’s Song’s”. Which
has been researched by Ifonilla Yenianti in 2003, the Student of Islamic
Studies Institude (STAIN) Salatiga? In her thesis, she has analyzed about the
figurative language. According to him, the figurative language used in West
life song are metonymy, hyperbole, personification, paradox, metaphor, simile
and apostrophe, and it has many connotation meanings based on the data
analysis.
The fifth review related to this research, and the title is “A Descriptive
Study on the Uses of Colloquial Style on English Song’s”. Which has been
researched by Endriana Sri Wahyuni in 2003, the Student of Islamic Studies
Institude (STAIN) Salatiga? In her thesis, she has analyzed about the
colloquial style. According to her, the language styles in English songs are
colloquial style which discusses about non Standard English which is now
recognized as normal and interesting variety of English. As my thesis research,
the language style in Jason Myraz‟s song has interesting of English‟s variety.
But, the writer uses figurative language to be analyzed. It is interesting,
because some of them creates an paradigme of meaning, deeply and build
some imaginations.
H. The Methodology of the Research
1. The Method Research
In this study, the writer used descriptive method. According to
Suharsimi Arikunto‟s (1990:309), descriptive studies are design to obtain
information concerning with the current status of phenomena.
They are directed toward determining the nature of situation as it
exists of the time of study. Thus there is no administration or control of a
treatment as it is found in an experimental study. Therefore, this study
attempts to identify, classify, and describe the figurative language of Jason
Mraz‟s songs.
2. Data Sources
Data sources in this research were Jason Mraz‟s albums. The lyric
contained 12 song : Make it Mine, I’m Yours, Lucky, Butterfly, Live High,
Love for a Child, Details in the Fabric, Coyotes, Only Human, The
Dynamo of Volition, If It Kills Me and A Beautiful Mess.
3. Techniques of collecting data
There are many ways to collect the data, such as: documentation
and questionnaire. This technique was used to get data relating to
figurative language in Jason Mraz songs. Documentation in this case is the
text of Jason Mraz songs cassette.
The techniques of taking the data as follows:
a. The writer selected the Jason Mraz songs.
b. The writer read all of the lyrics of Jason Mraz songs
c. The writer of the lyrics of Jason Mraz songs.
d. The writer analysis the figurative language belonging to Jason Mraz
songs.
4. Techniques of analyzing data
In analyzing the data, the writer uses descriptive analysis technique
to analyze the figurative language used by Jason Mraz songs. The
techniques of analyzing the data as follows:
a. Listening to the Jason Mraz cassettes album to understand that lyrics.
b. Reading and learning all sentences from the lyrics.
c. Identifying the kinds of figurative language.
d. Describing the message conveyed in Jason Mraz songs.
I. Graduating Paper Out Lines
Outline is preliminary sketch representing the principal features,
structures and content of written work (Shah Mahmoud, 1992:109). This
graduating paper is divided into five chapters they are: chapter one is
introduction consisting of background of the study, statement of the problem,
the objectives of the study, the benefits of the study, the limitation of the
study, definition of key terms, review of related literature, the methodology of
the research, graduating paper out lines. Chapter two is review of the related
literature consist of the kind of figurative language and biography of Jason
Mraz songs. Chapter three is data and classification that consist of data
presentation and data classification. Chapter four is analysis that contain of
data analysis of figurative language, figurative language‟s definition and key
word to identify figurative language in Jason Mraz album entitled we sing, we
dance, we steal things. Chapter five is closure that consists of conclusion and
suggestion, bibliographies, curriculum vitae and appendix. The last part is
bibliography and appendixes.
CHAPTER II
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
In this chapter the writer would like to review the related literature dealing
with the figurative language of songs.
A. Literature
Literature derived from the Latin literal, meaning “letter”. The root
meaning of literature refers primarily to the written word and seems to support
this board definition. However, such a definition eliminates the important oral
traditions on which much of our literature is based, including homer‟s illiad
and odyssey, the English epic Beowulf, and many Native American legends
(Charles E.bressler, 1998:6)
Literature is considered as the expression of beautiful thought, ideas in
beautiful language (Hartiningsih, 2001:4). It will be interesting for some
readers if they have high sensitivity and imagination because they can really
enjoy the beauty of literature. Literature is writing of particular kind involving
a particular use of words, writing that works in particular way, makes
different. Literature is human expression about the life experience in language
form.
1. The Characteristic of Literature
Characteristics of literature that mentions three points: first, that
literature has power. The use of language in a certain piece work of
literature may create a powerful emotional impact in the reader mind.
Second, literature is also vivid. One of its great achievements is by the
power of written word to make you hear, to make you feel, it‟s before all,
to make you see. Third, the language of literature is clear to clarify this, he
use a passage describing a character (Sunaryono, 1988:2).
2. Categories of Literature
There are two categories of literature are escape and interpretative
literature. Escape literature is that written purely for entertainment, to help
us pass the time agreeably. Interpretative literature is written to broaden,
deepen and sharpen our awareness of live; it takes us through the
imagination deeper into the real world (Sunaryono, 1988:2).
3. The Benefit of Reading Literature
The benefit of learning literature especially western literature are
the human readers can increase their vocabulary, understanding the
English or American styles of speaking, and knowing western culture.
Another benefit and reading literature is that it offers the readers
an experience, problem life and the way to solve it. But to have experience
and to make the story comes alive, they must read it seriously. Though the
experience is imagination but the emotion is real. Different experience
makes different readers responds differently to the some work.
4. Kinds of Literature
The kinds of literature are mentions two main divisions they are
literature of knowledge and the literature of imagination, both of literature
in function, according to the purpose of the writer. The literature of
knowledge presents or interprets facts, ideas or happenings, a description
of a person or place, the explanation of scientist process, the account of
war, or the discussion of political issues. The literature of imagination
interprets experience by fictitious presentation of person, ideas and events
these writing involve prose, poetry and drama (Sunaryono, 1988:3). The
writer of this thesis will explain only literature of imagination as material
because the analysis of this thesis is about poetry that include into one of
imaginative literature.
B. Figurative Language
1. Definition of Figurative Language
The poetic element of poetry comes from figurative language
aspects. It is one factor that influences the beauty of works. According to
Longman Dictionary of English language and culture (1992), the word
figurative is an adjective of a word, phrase, meaning, etc. used in some
way other than the main or usual meaning to suggest a picture in the main
or to make a comparison that can help the readers make unfamiliar like
familiar.
Abrams (1985:66), also states that figurative language is a
deviation from which speakers of language apprehend as the ordinary, or
standard, significance or sequences of words, in order to achieve some
special meaning or effect. It has often been divided into two classes. They
are “figure of thought”; in which words are used in a way that effects a
conspicuous change in their standard meaning. The standard meaning of a
word, as opposed to its tropic meaning, is called its literal meaning and
“figures of speech” or “rhetorical figures” or schemes (from the Greek
word for form), in which the departure from standard usage is not,
primarily, in the meaning but in the order of the words.
Figurative language is language that employs various figures of
speech. In general, figurative language that departs from the language
employed in the traditional, literal ways of describing persons or object.
Using figurative language is making imaginative description in fresh way.
It is usually immediately obvious whether a text is using figurative or
literal meaning (Reaske, 1966:33).
Figurative language is one factor that makes the poem will have
more meaning. Parrine (1977:61) states that the figurative language is
more effective to explore what the literary people means, because;
a. Figurative language creates the imaginative thinking.
b. Figurative language is the way to make the additional imaginations in
the poem, therefore the abstract will be concrete.
c. Figurative language is the way to give the intensity of the poet.
d. Figurative language is the way to concretize the meaning and to
explore many things in sorter sentence (Waluyo, 1987:83).
The metaphor consists of two terms; they are the main term
(principal term) and secondary term. The main term means tenor, and the
second term means vehicle. Tenor refers to signify and vehicle refers to
signifier. Nevertheless, the people use the term without tenor. This kind of
metaphor is implied metaphor (Pradopo, 1987:66).
According to Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
(1987:379) figurative speech or figurative language is “an example of the
figurative use of words.” Same definition is given by Oxford Advanced
Learner‟s Dictionary (2005: 433) that is “a word or phrase used for vivid
or dramatic effect.”
Figurative language or “figures of speech” is “a way of saying
something other than the literal meaning of the words”
(http://www.frostfriends.org/figurative.html). In other words, any language
that goes beyond the literal meaning of words in order to furnish new
effects or fresh insights into an idea or a subject, cited from
(http://www.orangeusd.k12.ca.us/yorba/figurative_language.htm).
Meanwhile, figurative language is:
“Figure of speech, word of group of words used to give particular
emphasis to an idea or sentiment. The special emphasis is typically
accomplished by he user’s conscious deviation from the strict literal sense
of a word, or from the more commonly used from of word order or
sentence construction”
(http://au.encarta.msn.com/text_761577842_1/Figure_of_Speech.html).
In Merriam-Webster‟s Encyclopedia of Literature (1995: 415),
figure of speech is defined as:
“A form of expression (as a simile or metaphor) used to convey meaning
or heighten effect often by comparing or identifying one thing with another
that has a meaning or connotation familiar to the reader or listener.”
The figurative language is the way to express ideas through a
specific language which is showing the author‟s soul and personality.
Therefore, we can see the condition and the character of the writer through
his expression. Figurative language is essential for a true appreciation of
literature understanding how it works help us interpret what the poets are
saying and what they are trying to explore. It is usually used in poetry. It
just like what Raskin says that figurative language is used in poetry and
fiction, as well as in everyday speech when a potentially ambiguous
sentence is only one meaning of it occurs to him and he intends the
sentence in this one meaning (Raskin, 1963:63). It is because Poets do
sometime use vague, abstract language; but only in order to make a
particular kind of impression on the reader, or to create in the poem a
vague, day-dreaming mood (Lewis, 1944:25).
Related with the statement above is appropriate with the purpose of
using figurative language. The poets use it to conceive many more effect,
more effective, and more suggestive in the poems. There are some types of
figurative language each of which has their own function. Those types are
metaphor,simile, personification, overstatement, euphemism
(understatement), synecdoche, and irony (Waluyo, 1987:84). However, in
this study only focused on metaphor. From the definition above, we can
conclude that figurative language is the way to explore the idea by specific
language, which shows the mind and the individuality of the writers as the
user of language. The purpose of using it is to make the expression more
interesting and giving an imaginative comfort for the readers. In addition,
figurative language gives more esthetic value for the work.
Therefore, based on the explanations above, the writer conclude
that figurative language is language that cannot be taken literally (or
should not be taken literally only). Figurative language is supposed as a
way in saying one thing and meaning another. It is usually applied by
many writers in creating literary works such as poetry and novel. Many
writers create figurative language personally and creatively. Their styles
are influenced not only by their culture but also their background of
experiences and so forth. Certainly, the writers‟ skill to create attractive
and dept meanings of combinational words are needed to attract their
readers‟ intention.
2. Types of Figurative Language
According to Merriam-Webster‟s Encyclopedia of Literature
(1995:415). Figurative language or figure of speech can be classified in
five major categories, there are
a. Figures of resemblance on relationship (e.g., simile, metaphor,
kenning, conceit, parallelism, personification, metonymy, synecdoche
and euphemism).
b. Figures of emphasis or understatement (e.g., hyperbole, litotes,
rhetoric question, antithesis, climax, bathos, paradox, oxymoron and
irony).
c. Figures of sound (e.g., alliteration, repetition, anaphora and
onomatopoeia).
d. Verbal games and gymnastics (e.g., pun, and anagram).
e. Errors (e.g., malapropism, periphrasis, and spoonerism).
In addition, in line with Frost (2006:76) state that there are sixteen
types of figurative language. Those figurative language would be
explained which related to this study and those are used in analyzing the
findings. The sixteen types of igurative language are presented below:
a. Alliteration
Alliteration is repeated consonant sound occurring at the beginning of
the word or within words. Alliteration is used to create melody,
establish mood, call attention to important words, and point out
similarities contrast.
For instances:
1) Sweet smell of success, a dime a dozen, and jump for joy.
2) Five freaky females finding sales at retail.
b. Allegory
Allegory is a poem in the form of a narrative or story that has a second
meaning beneath the surface one. Allegory is a prolonged or an
extended metaphor which presents its meaning in a veiled way. In
short, it is simply one thing consistently being presented in the guise
of something else. Usually there is a series of actions, which are in
fact symbolic of other actions. Furthermore, Robert Frost is notable
for his use of parable using the description to evoke an idea. For
instances:
1) After apple-picking: the apple harvest suggests accomplishment.
2) Birches: the climbing suggests the value of learning and
experience.
3) Because of wading your ship of life, roaming the ocean, the raff,
billow and hurricane.
c. Allusion
Allusion is a brief figurative or symbolic reference within a literary
text to
a familiar or person, place, event or thing outside the text. Allusion is
used in hopes of triggering an association to portray a meaning. For
instances:
1) Catherine is a real Cinderella (works a lot around the house,
cooking and cleaning).
2) He was Hercules of a man (strong, take on anything).
d. Assonance
Assonance is a resemblance of a sound in words or syllable.
According to Ensiklopedi Sastra Indonesia (2004: 93). For instances:
1) Thy kingdom com, thy will be done.
2) Fleet feet sweep by sleeping geese.
e. Hyperbole
Hyperbole is expression of exaggeration which used by a writer
depicted as being better or worse, or larger or smaller, than actually
the case. According to Merriam-Webster‟s Encyclopedia of Literature
(1995: 573) “hyperbole is a figure of speech that is an intentional
exaggeration for emphasis or comic effect.” For instances:
1) Dr. Johnson drank his tea in oceans.
2) My date last night was the most beautiful girl in the world
f. Idiom
Idiom is the language peculiar to a group of people and has a
special meaning of its own. Idioms according to Webster's Dictionary,
an idiom is defined as: peculiar to itself either grammatically (as no, it
wasn't me) or in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the
conjoined meanings of its elements (as Monday week for „the
Monday a week after next Monday‟). Idioms are expressions of at
least two words which cannot be translated literally and which
function as a single unit semantically (see Holman 1992). For
instances:
1) She sings at the top of her lungs.
2) Do you need a hand?
3) You steal my heart you make me fall in love with you
g. Imagery
Imagery is the use of words to describe something, to create a
“menta
picture” of it. When Matthew Arnold‟s speaker says “the sea is
calm
tonight” in the poem “Dover Beach,” you create sea in your
imagination.
For instances: The trees converged in a velvet meadow.
h. Irony
Irony is word using that say something other than what we mean
actually. Irony is one of type of figurative language that declare the
opposite meaning or contradiction with the fact. Irony refers to words
with an implication opposite to their usual meaning. Ironic comment
may be humorous or mildly sarcastic (McArthur, 1996:532). For
example:
1) In this cell we are happy, actually.
2) Someone says to his friend “ you are very slim” whereas the fact
is that his friend is very fat.
i. Metaphor
Metaphor is use of a word or phrase denoting kind of idea or object in
place of another word or phrase for the purpose of suggesting a
likeness between the two. In the other word, “metaphor is a figure of
speech in which a word of phrase denoting one kind of object or
action is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy
between them” (Merriam_Webster‟s Encyclopedia of Literature,
1995: 756). For instances:
1) A woman is admired for her strength and beauty, she is a silken
tent.
2) The stages of love are stepping stones to death.
3) My lover is a treasure.
j. Metonymy
Metonymy is figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of
one object or concept for that of another to which it is related. as “the
bottle” for “strong drink.” According to Kinayati (2006:19) metonymy
is figures of speech that use one word or phrase to explain something,
because its have a close associated. Example: He loves the bottle,
meaning that he likes the content, not the bottle itself; He bought a
Chevrolet (Chevrolet is used to mean a car).
k. Onomatopoeia
Is a figure of speech that combines of sounds in a word that imitates or
suggests what word refers to? And according Reaske (1966:21) this is
a technique of using a word whose sound suggests its meaning.
Example; when the owl sang in her night, cuckoo…..
I don‟t know where I had to go.
l. Paradox
Paradox is a statement or situation containing apparently contradictory
or incompatible elements, but on closer inspection may be true.
There are three definitions of paradox based on Merriam_Webster‟s
Encyclopedia of Literature (1995: 856):
Paradox is (1) A tenet or proposition contrary to received of
expectation. 2) An apparently self-contradictory statement, the
underlying meaning of which is revealed only by careful scrutiny.
(3) Something (such as a person, phenomenon, state of affairs, or
action) with seemingly contradictory qualities or phases
Paradox is a termeven absurd, but may contain an insight into life
(McArthur, 1996:348). Several examples of paradox as follows:
1) Men work together whether they work together or apart.
2) A well-known secret agent.
3) “This statement is false”; if the statement is true, then the
statement is false, thereby in rhetoric for a situation or statement
that is or seems self- contradictory and the statement true.
m. Personification
Reaske (1966:39) state that personification is the process of
singing human characteristic to object. Personification is figure of
speech which shows an analogy to draw a thing as if human
characteristic, or these thing, animal, and abstract term is made as
human.
Personification is a figure of speech that draw an animal an
object or an ideas having human characteristic (Kinayati, 2006:19).
When something that is not human is given human-like qualities, this
is known as personification. An example of personification would be
to say, for examples:
“The leaves danced in the wind on the cold October afternoon.
”The wind stood up and gave a shout”
“The sky looks angry”
C. Meanings
Figurative language refers to words, and groups of words, that
exaggerate or alter the usual meaning in figures of speeches of the component
words. A figure of speech may be said to occur whenever a
speaker or writer, from the sake of freshness or emphasis, departs from the
usual denotations of words (Kennedy, 1983; 479). Figurative language may
involve analog to similar concepts or the other contexts, and may involve
exaggerations. There are many figurative languages, the writer will analyze
figurative languages in Jason Mraz album entitled “we sing, we dance, we
steal things” because these figurative languages always uses by the poet in the
word and figurative languages will classified.
L.A. Richarcd in Aminuddin say the original difficulty of all reading,
the problem of making out the meaning is our obvious starting point.
According to Reaske (1966:36) meaning is something that the poet wants to
convey to the reader. In this research, the writer only focus on contextual
meaning in analyzing figurative language used in Jason Mraz songs Album
entitled we sing, we dance, we steal things. Askar (2011) said that contextual
meaning is the meaning of almost any utterance depends on the context in
which it made (online accesses on November 24th
, 2013). By these
explanation the writer concluded that the contextual meaning is the meaning
of the poem does not depend on the the word of poem but it depends on the
context of the sentence.
CHAPTER III
DATA AND CLASSIFICATION
A. Biography of Jason Mraz Singers
Jason Mraz, born on March 23, 1977 and raised in Mechanicsville,
Virginia, was mostly influenced with such music genres as reggae, pop, rock,
jazz, folk and hip-hop. Having a strong interest in music, he attended the
American Musical and Dramatic Academy but dropped out a year later when
he decided to pick up guitar at the age of 18 and started exploring his singing
talent at strawberry fields and on the streets of Manhattan.
After busking around the Big Apple, Jason moved to San Diego.
There, he landed a singing career with a duo with drummer Noel "Toca"
Rivera. Along with Toca, he performed at the coffeehouses around the town
before getting signed to Elektra Records. Mraz is of Czech descent through
his grandfather who moved to the United States from what is now the Czech
Republic in 1915. His sure name is Czech for "frost." Mraz is a vegan. He
attended The American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City,
for a short time, studying musical theatres before moving to San Diego. Mraz
also owns an avocado farm in Northern San Diego County near Fallbrook.
Music career, Waiting for My Rocket to Come. In 2002, Mraz released
his first major-label debut album, Waiting for My Rocket to Come. The album
was a relative commercial success, peaking at number fifty-five on the
Billboard Hot 200 and at number two on the Top Heat seekers Chart. The lead
single from the album, "The Remedy (I Won't Worry)" was co-written by
music production team The Matrix and it was Mraz's first top twenty single on
the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number fifteen.
In July 2005, Mraz opened for Alanis Morissette during her Jagged
Little Pill Acoustic Tour. On July 26, 2005, he released his second major-label
album, Mr. A?Z, for Atlantic Records. It entered the Billboard 200 album
chart at number 5. In December, the album earned a Grammy Award
nomination for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, while its producer, the
prolific Steve Lilywhite, received a nomination for Producer of the Year.
Mraz's friend and former roommate Billy "Bushwalla" Galewood also
collaborated on the album, co-writing "Curbside Prophet" and the album's
third single, and "I'll Do Anything".
Mraz began his long-running tour in support of Mr. A?Z at the San
Diego Music Awards on September 12. The tour featured a variety of opening
acts, including Bushwalla and Tristan Prettyman, with whom he had co-
written the duet "Shy That Way" in 2002. Mraz and Prettyman dated, ending
their relationship in 2006. They also co-wrote the song "All I Want For
Christmas is Us". In November 2005, Mraz opened for the Rolling Stones on
five dates during their 2005/2006 world tour. Also in 2005, Mraz was one of
many singers featured in the fall advertisement campaign for The Gap entitled
"Favourites". The music-themed campaign also featured other singers
including Tristan Prettyman, Michelle Branch, Joss Stone, Keith Urban,
Alanis Morissette, Brandon Boyd, and Michelle Williams. In December 2005,
Mraz released the first part of his on going pod cast.
Jason Mraz performs at Fox woods Resort Casino in Ledyard,
Connecticut on May 17, 2006. In March 2006, Mraz also performed for the
first time at a sold-out performance in Singapore with Toca Rivera as part of
the annual Mosaic Music Festival. In May 2006, Mraz toured mostly small
venues and music festivals in the U.S., along with a few shows in the United
Kingdom and Ireland. The tour included a May 6, 2006 acoustic show with
P.O.D., Better than Ezra, Live, and The Presidents of the United States of
America. Mraz was featured as a headlining guest of St. Louis's annual Fair
St. Louis and performed a free concert at the base of the Arch on July 1, 2006.
In December 2006, Selections for Friends, the live, online-only album
recorded during the Songs for Friends Tour, was released. Selections for
Friends features Jason's favourite songs from the Schubas Tavern and Villa
Montalvo shows he played in July 2006. Jason Mraz began 2007 by debuting
his new single "The Beauty in Ugly", an earlier track penned by Mraz entitled
"Plain Jane" that he rewrote for the ABC TV show Ugly Betty. The song was
featured as a part of ABC's "Be Ugly in '07" campaign. He has since released
a song in Spanish entitled "La Nueva Belleza (The New Beauty)".
In 2007, American Idol contestant Chris Richardson performed "Geek
in the Pink", which subsequently garnered the song mass recognition and
increased downloads at the American Tunes Store. It was also performed later
that year by Canadian Idol contestant Greg Neufeld. "Geek in the Pink"
peaked at 22 on the U.S. Tunes Store on March 10, 2007, but it was ineligible
for the site's Hot 100. The tape-recording of bootlegs during Mraz's shows is
explicitly supported by him and his management.
We sing, we dance, we steal things, Jason Mraz at Grina Lund in
Stockholm, Sweden 2008 Mraz released his third studio album, we sing, we
dance, we steal things. On May 13, 2008. The album debuted at number three
on the Billboard Hot 200 giving Mraz his highest charting album to date.
Following the success of lead single, I'm yours, the album broke into the top
ten of many international music charts and charted in the top three in Australia
and the US. The first single "I'm yours" reached on a radio charts in the US.
The single was a B-side to Mr A-Z, and was made famous by recordings from
his live shows. In September 2008, the song became Mraz's first Top 10 hit on
the Billboard Hot 100, peaking so far at as of October 14, 2008, the album has
been certified Gold by the RIAA, selling in excess of 500,000 copies in the
US. The song was a commercial success worldwide, peaking in the top ten of
multiple European charts and topping the charts in New Zealand for six
weeks. Mraz and his song "I'm yours" were nominated for Song of the Year
and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at the 2009 51st Grammy Awards. The
album we sing, we dance, we steal things, was also nominated for a Grammy
Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical in 2009. On January 31,
2009, Mraz was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live, performing "I'm
yours" and "Lucky", the latter with Colbie Caillat. "Lucky" has peaked on the
Hot 100 at 48.
B. Data Presentation
Data in general represents a structured codification of single primary
entities, as well as of transactions involving two are more primary entities.
Representation of fact, concepts or instructions in a formalized manner
suitable for communication, interpretation or processing by humans or by
automatic means, any representations such as characters or analog quantities
to which meaning is or might be assigned. Mean while presentation is learning
model or data studying to get certain aims. So, data presentation is learning
model from basic sources that will be studied in a research. Data is researches
are songs in Jason Mraz album, “we sing, we dance, we steal things”. This
album consist of 12 songs, they are:
1. Make It Mine
2. I'm Yours
3. Lucky (ft. Collbie Caillat)
4. Butterfly
5. Live High
6. Love For A Child
7. Details In the Fabric
8. Coyotes
9. Only Human
10. The Dynamo Of Volition
11. If It Kills Me
12. A beautiful Mess
(These lyric songs can be looked at the appendix)
C. Data Classification
Data in general represent a structure codifications of single primary
entities, as well as of transactions involving two or more primary entities.
Meanwhile classification is the act of forming into a class or classes; a
distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc. According to some
common relations or affinities, grouping of data are based of same certain
characteristic. So data classification is grouping of data that will be studied by
a researcher in a certain research.
The researcher used documentation as the method of collecting the
data. This method was proposed to collect the metaphors that are expressed in
Jason Mraz‟s songs third album entitled “we sing, we dance, we steal things”.
Based on the result of analysis, it can be concluded that in creating the song
lyric Jason Mraz has not used all types of metaphorical language. In the
previous chapter, the writer explains about the figurative languages of songs.
The figurative of songs is similar to the figurative of poetry. The figurative
languages used in Jason Mraz‟s songs album “we sing, we dance, we steal
things”are:
1. Hyperbole, hyperbole or overstatement is emphasizing a point with a
statement containing exaggeration.
2. Personification, a figure of speech in which a thing, an animal or an
abstract term is made human.
3. Simile, comparison of two things, indicated by some connective; usually,
as, than, like or a verb such as resembles.
4. Metonymy, the name of a thing is substitutes for that of another closely
associated with it.
5. Paradox, a statement that at first strikes we as self contradictory but than
on reflection make some sense.
This chapter will classify clearly about figurative language that are
contained in Jason Mraz‟s song lyric:
No Code Expression Figurative Language
1
1
The one that tells you to taste past the
tip of your tongue
Hyperbole
2 I keep my life on a heavy rotation Methapore
3 I don't wanna wake before
The dream is over
Hyperbole
4
2
I tried to be chill but you're so hot that
I melted
Paradox
5 And nothing's going to stop me but
divine intervention
Hyperbole
6 I've been spending way too long
checking my tongue in the mirror
Hyperbole
7
But do you want to come on
Scooch on over closer dear
And I will nibble your ear
Hyperbole
8
3
I'm lucky I'm in love with my best
friend, Lucky to have been where I
have been
Hyperbole
9 You'll hear the music fill the air
I'll put a flower in your hair
Hyperbole
10 I feel your whisper across the sea Hyperbole
11 Though the breezes through trees, Personification
No Code Expression Figurative Language
move so pretty you're all I see
as the world keeps spinning round
12
I'm talking to you
Across the water across the deep blue
ocean
Simile
13
4
I wanna fly with you and I don't wanna
lie to you
Hyperbole
14 Butterfly, well you landed on my mind Methapore
15 Climb in my mouth now child Hyperbole
16
Oh, kiss me with your eyelashes
tonight or Eskimo your nose real close
to mine
Personification
17 I'm your pole and all you're wearing is
your shoes
Methapore
18 Ride your tongue along your bottom lip
and bite down
Paradox
19
5
I try to picture a girl through a looking
glass and see her as a carbon atom,
see her eyes and stare back at them
Hyperbole
20 Though her home is on the surface she
is still a universe
Methapore
21 Glory God, oh God is peeking through
the blinds
Paradox
22
6
There's a couple getting steamy in the
car parked in the drive
Metonymy
23 Was it mom who put my dad out on his
ass or the other way around
Personification
24 You hit your head and then forgot your
name
Hyperbole
25 7 Is it Mother Nature's sewing machine Personification
No Code Expression Figurative Language
26
8
Then the city life has crumbled to the
sea
Hyperbole
27
That's when the city lights starts falling
for the sea, winding roads are winding
down
Simile
28 I wish the world was alive like you, I
wish the wind would blow me through
Personification
29
9
A squirrel in the tree is he watching me Personification
30 Murderous crow, hey what you know Methapore
31
Is that a twig, are you a dove of peace
a black dove undercover, with another
puzzle piece
Simile
32 Up in the major's tree, the one he
planted back when he was just a boy
Simile
33 The planet's talking about a revolution Personification
34
10
Living life of a cat, I just wanna relax
here and write another rap tune
Hyperbole
35 I'm try in' to keep with the Joneses,
while waiting for guns and the roses
Metonymy
36
Half a politician holding the mic like
ammunition and my vision is as simple
as light
Personification
37
Driving off on your blind man's bike,
you can say just what you like or
nothing can stop you
Simile
38
11
To know that I know that you know
now and baby that's a case of my
wishful thinking
Simile
39 And I will find a way to you if it kills
me
Personification
No Code Expression Figurative Language
40 If I should be so bold, I'd ask you to
hold my heart in your hand
Hyperbole
41
12
And it's a beautiful mess, yes it is. It's
like, we're picking up trash in dresses
Simile
42 We'll fly like birds not of this earth Personification
43 You're the kind of girl who can take
down a man,
Hyperbole
44 And tides they turn and hearts
disfigure
Hyperbole
Code: number song entitled album’s Jason Mraz in year 2008
CHAPTER IV
ANALYSIS
In this chapter, the data are taken from English song by Jason Mraz from
“We sing, we dance, we steal things” album such as:
1. Make It Mine
2. I'm Yours
3. Lucky (ft. Collbie Caillat)
4. Butterfly
5. Live High
6. Love For A Child
7. Details In the Fabric
8. Coyotes
9. Only Human
10. The Dynamo Of Volition
11. If It Kills Me12.
12. A beautiful Mess
The writer chooses the songs of Jason Mraz because she knows that many of
this contains the figurative language, especially the above songs.
Before analyzing and interpreting the data, it is important to know that there
are four ways in analyzing the data. The techniques of analyzing data in this
research are:
1. Reading and learning all sentences from the text of the songs
2. Identifying the figurative language
3. Analyzing and classifying the sentences which had figurative language or
in terms of their structural aspect
4. Describing the messages conveyed in Jason Mraz songs from “We sing,
we dance, we steal things,” album
There are connotative and denotative meanings in Jason Mraz‟s songs, so the
writer must be careful to interpret the data investigated will be useful and
clearly understood.
A. Data Analysis Of Figurative Language
The most important part of this research is the result of data analysis.
This analysis is based on text meaning of figurative language
1. The data (01) entitles “Make It Mine”
a. Lyric : The one that tells you to taste past the tip of your
tongue
Figurative : Hyperbole
Reason : The writer just wants to say “to express it past / to talk
it past”
b. Lyric : I keep my life on a heavy rotation
Figurative : Methapore
Reason : The writer just wants to say “life journey”
c. Lyric : I don't wanna wake before The dream is over
Figurative : Hyperbole
Reason : The writer just wants to say “living statement /
becoming dream real”
2. The data (02) entitles “I'm Yours”
a. Lyric : I tried to be chill but you're so hot that I melted
Figurative : Paradox
Reason : Because chill and hot is contradictory, it is one of
paradox characteristic
b. Lyric : And nothing's going to stop me but divine intervention
Figurative : Hyperbole
Reason : This lyric containing exaggeration the writer just want
to say “there is no that can predict it when was i will
stopped”
c. Lyric : I've been spending way too long checking my tongue in
the mirror
Figurative : Hyperbole
Reason : The writer just wants to say “I need it time long to
prove it mine”
d. Lyric : But do you want to come on Scooch on over closer dear
And I will nibble your ear
Figurative : Hyperbole
Reason : It has closely associated with “I expect you are coming
because I miss you”
3. The data (03) entitles “Lucky (ft. Collbie Caillat)”
a. Lyric : I'm lucky I'm in love with my best friend, Lucky to have
been where I have been
Figurative : Hyperbole
Reason : There is the exaggeration of the word “I'm lucky I'm in
love with my best friend”, because writer willing to
appear it strength of luckiness from these loves.
b. Lyric : You'll hear the music fill the air
I'll put a flower in your hair
Figurative : Hyperbole
Reason : This lyric containing exaggeration the writer just wants
to say “I admire you that i expressing like the air
blowing that to face waving of music and i will insert it
a flower in your hair”
c. Lyric : I feel your whisper across the sea
Figurative : Hyperbole
Reason : This lyric containing exaggeration the writer just wants
to say that I expect you is nearest people and came
from my yard's village.
d. Lyric : Though the breezes through trees, move so pretty
you're all I see as the world keeps spinning round
Figurative : Personification
Reason : It has closely associated with “we taste within with love
and of i own yourself to forever”
e. Lyric : I'm talking to you Across the water across the deep blue
ocean
Figurative : Simile
Reason : The writer just wants to say that “I express it feeling of
love this to yourself, although place different we (the
far distance love)”
4. The data (04) entitles “Butterfly”
a. Lyric : I wanna fly with you and I don't wanna lie to you
Figurative : Hyperbole
Reason : This lyric containing exaggeration the writer just wants
to say “I said honest want with you”
b. Lyric : Butterfly, well you landed on my mind
Figurative : Methapore
Reason : The writer just wants to say “the existed in thinking just
only you (someone this my loves)”
c. Lyric : Climb in my mouth now child
Figurative : Hyperbole
Reason : This lyric containing exaggeration the writer just wants
to say “pronouncing/say an out word from my mouth
will to be applied by a child”
d. Lyric : Oh, kiss me with your eyelashes tonight or Eskimo your
nose real close to mine
Figurative : Personification
Reason : It has closely associated with “life statement that
tonight you are the life that of i own”
e. Lyric : I'm your pole and all you're wearing is your shoes
Figurative : Methapore
Reason : “all you're wearing is your shoes” is cause and “I'm
your pole” is effect
f. Lyric : Ride your tongue along your bottom lip and bite down
Figurative : Paradox
Reason : Because ride and tongue is contradictory, it is one of
paradox characteristic
5. The data (05) entitles “Live High”
a. Lyric : I try to picture a girl through a looking glass and see
her as a carbon atom, see her eyes and stare back at
them
Figurative : Hyperbole
Reason : This lyric containing exaggeration the writer just wants
to say “to describe it good personality or bad a girl”
b. Lyric : Though her home is on the surface she is still a
universe
Figurative : Methapore
Reason : The writer just wants to say “parted place stay in
universe”
c. Lyric : Glory God, oh God is peeking through the blinds
Figurative : Paradox
Reason : Because Glory God and peeking through the blinds is
contradictory, it is one of paradox characteristic
6. The data (06) entitles “Love For A Child”
a. Lyric : There's a couple getting steamy in the car parked in the
drive
Figurative : Metonymy
Reason : “a couple getting steamy” is cause and “the car parked
in the drive” is effect
b. Lyric : Was it mom who put my dad out on his ass or the other
way around
Figurative : Personification
Reason : It has closely associated with “missing a child on
separation second its old peoples”
c. Lyric : You hit your head and then forgot your name
Figurative : Hyperbole
Reason : This lyric containing exaggeration the writer just wants
to say “forget it all matter from my remembering”
7. The data (07) entitles “Details In the Fabric”
Lyric : Is it Mother Nature's sewing machine
Figurative : Personification
Reason : It has closely associated with “life journey or wheel of
life peoples”
8. The data (08) entitles “Coyotes”
a. Lyric : Then the city life has crumbled to the sea
Figurative : Hyperbole
Reason : This lyric containing exaggeration the writer just wants
to say “it‟s happen changing order city life”
b. Lyric : It's when the city lights starts falling for the sea,
winding roads are winding down
Figurative : simile
Reason : This lyric containing exaggeration the writer just wants
to say “lights starts falling for the sea”
c. Lyric : I wish the world was alive like you, I wish the wind
would blow me through
Figurative : Personification
Reason : It has closely associated with “willing to in know in
around the world”
9. The data (09) entitles “Only Human”
a. Lyric : A squirrel in the tree is he watching me
Figurative : Personification
Reason : It has closely associated with “evaluation/character
from someone”
b. Lyric : Murderous crow, hey what you know
Figurative : Methapore
Reason : The writer just wants to say “it’s hunter / law upholder
/ justified”
c. Lyric : Is that a twig, are you a dove of peace a black dove
undercover, with another puzzle piece
Figurative : Simile
Reason : This lyric containing exaggeration the writer just wants
to say “peacefulness symbol to be parabled a pigeon
that perch in a tree twig”
d. Lyric : Up in the major's tree, the one he planted back when he
was just a boy
Figurative : Simile
Reason : This lyric containing exaggeration the writer just wants
to say “comprehension a the regulation is applied to
child since age early”
e. Lyric : The planet's talking about a revolution
Figurative : Personification
Reason : The writer just wants to say “will it’s happen revolution
/ structural changing”
10. The data (10) entitles “The Dynamo Of Volition”
a. Lyric : Living life of a cat, I just wanna relax here and write
another rap tune
Figurative : Hyperbole
Reason : This lyric containing exaggeration the writer just wants
to say “do life what existence without existence
prosecuting and pressure”
b. Lyric : I'm try in' to keep with the Joneses, while waiting for
guns and the roses
Figurative : Metonymy
Reason : “I'm try in' to keep” is cause and “waiting for guns and
the roses” is effect
c. Lyric : Half a politician holding the mic like ammunition and
my vision is as simple as light
Figurative : Personification
Reason : It has closely associated with “willing realize it mission
and the vision that have been arranged”
d. Lyric : Driving off on your blind man's bike, you can say just
what you like or nothing can stop you
Figurative : Simile
Reason : This lyric containing exaggeration the writer just wants
to say “to execute it a matter according to side and like
heart”
11. The data (11) entitles “If It Kills Me”
a. Lyric : To know that I know that you know now and baby that's
a case of my wishful thinking
Figurative : Simile
Reason : This lyric containing exaggeration the writer just wants
to say “wish to someone or to expect it a matter to
someone so that realized”
b. Lyric : And I will find a way to you if it kills me
Figurative : Personification
Reason : It has closely associated with “to find way to show
although way mentioned to endangered”
c. Lyric : If I should be so bold, I'd ask you to hold my heart in
your hand
Figurative : Hyperbole
Reason : This lyric containing exaggeration the writer just wants
to say “braveness to hold promise / loyalty”
12. The data (12) entitles “A beautiful Mess”
a. Lyric : And it's a beautiful mess, yes it is. It's like, we're
picking up trash in dresses
Figurative : Simile
Reason : This lyric containing exaggeration the writer just wants
to say “confusion a feeling expressing man to a girl”
b. Lyric : We'll fly like birds not of this earth
Figurative : Personification
Reason : It has closely associated with “happy feeling a man
after to express it his feeling”
c. Lyric : You're the kind of girl who can take down a man,
Figurative : Hyperbole
Reason : This lyric containing exaggeration the writer just wants
to say “to praise of prettiness a girl”
d. Lyric : And tides they turn and hearts disfigure
Figurative : Hyperbole
Reason : This lyric containing exaggeration the writer just wants
to say “mutual to accept and fill in while difficult also
happy”
B. The Denotative Meaning and Connotative Meaning
Denotation is the potential of a word (Charles.W. Kreidler, 1998: 43).
It has meant what the word expresses is the tune of words meaning, the
messages which will extend, without manipulated, it easier to understand.
Denotative meaning is the dictionary meaning of word. John C. Hodges and
Marry says (1984:249) that the denotation of word is what the word actually
signifies. According to the dictionary, the word hair denotes “one of the fine,
threadlike structures that grow from the skin of most mammals.”
Connotation is language furnisher the means for expressing a wide
range of attitudes. Meaning is more than denotation. People not only talk and
write to describe things and events and characteristic. They also express their
opinions, favourable and unfavourable (Charles.W. Kreidler, 1998: 44). The
connotation of word is what the word suggests or implies (Charles.W.
Kreidler, 1998: 249-250). Hair, for instance, may connote beauty, fertility,
nudity, strength, uncleanliness, temptation, rebellion, or primitivism. The
Connotation of a word includes the emotions or associations that surround it.
In the Oxford dictionary; connotation is idea or quality suggested by a word
in addition to its main meaning. From the quotation above, connotative is
used to the message through explicitly meaning or hidden messages.
In terms of denotative and connotative meaning the writer found some
sentences used in lyric Jason Mraz songs album‟s 2008.
a. The data (01) entitles “Make It Mine”
i. Lyric : I'm gonna make it mine
Meaning : denotative
Reason : The denotative meaning of this sentence is the writer
willing realizes it dreaming. The words „make‟ refers
to form (something) by putting parts together or
combining substances; construct; create.
ii. Lyric : I keep my life on a heavy rotation
Meaning : connotative
Reason : The conntotative meaning of this sentence is he still
on their life as usual although the fluctuative thing in
daily life.
iii. Lyric : The one that tells you to taste past the tip of your
tongue
Meaning : connotative
Reason : The connotative meaning of the word “taste past” is
“to memorize what happenend in the past” and the
sentence „tip of your tongue‟ refers to a feeling
something
iv. Lyric : And all the angels they'll be singing
Meaning : connotative
Reason : no source shows the angel sings. Its hyperbol. It just
informs that main character feel happy and
willingness to express his love to somebody.
b. The data (02) entitles “I'm Yours”
a. Lyric : And nothin's gonna stop me but divine intervention
Meaning : denotative
Reason : The denotative meaning of this sentence is the writer
god's of power.
b. Lyric : But my breath fogged up the glass
Meaning : denotative
Reason : its hyperbol meaning. The denotative meaning of this
sentence is the writer to proof it existence life.
c. Lyric : I tried to be chill but you’re so hot that I melted
Meaning : connotative
Reason : It‟s meant, the writer feel it is existence patience and
anger in to do it
c. The data (03) entitles “Lucky (ft. Collbie Caillat)”
a. Lyric : You make it easier when life gets hard
Meaning : denotative
Reason : The denotative meaning of this sentence is the writer
existence spirited in the life.
Lyric : I'm talking to you Across the water across the deep
blue ocean
Meaning : connotative
Reason : The connotative meaning of the word “talking to you
Across the water across” is “feeling from heart”.
Lyric : I feel your whisper across the sea. I keep you with me
in my heart
Meaning : connotative
Reason : its mean, the writer emphasize his girl about his feeling.
Expresses a faith to him.
d. The data (04) entitles “Butterfly”
a. Lyric : I’m taking a moment just imagining that I’m dancing
with you
Meaning : denotative
Reason : The denotative meaning of this sentence is the main
character above he wishes to dance with his girlfriend
b. Lyric : Hey sophisticated lady, oh you got it all
Meaning : denotative
Reason : The denotative meaning of this sentence is the writer
expresses what the girl have done to him.
c. Lyric : Butterfly well you landed on my mind
Meaning : connotative
Reason : It means, he expresses a love to somebody and
believing a true love.
e. The data (05) entitles “Live High”
a. Lyric : I try to picture the girl through a looking glass
Meaning : denotative
Reason : The denotative meaning of this sentence is the writer
take picture a girl
b. Lyric : I try to picture the man to always have an open hand
Meaning : denotative
Reason : The denotative meaning of this sentence is the writer
take picture a male who open his hand
c. Lyric : Though her home is on the surface she is still a
universe
Meaning : connotative
Reason : hyperbolic literature, which he informs that a girl has
something to explore.
d. Lyric : See him as a giving tree, see him as matter
Meaning : connotative
Reason : it means he admires a girl. Phrase „giving tree‟ looks
like a giving. Hyperbolyc language expressed for
beloved girl.
e. Lyric : The call of the wild is still on ordinary why
Meaning : denotative
Reason : the sentence „the call of the wild‟ is refers to the appeal
of nature in the raw.
f. The data (06) entitles “Love For A Child”
a. Lyric : There's a picture on my kitchen wall. Looks like Jesus
and his friends involved
Meaning : denotative
Reason : The denotative meaning of this sentence is the writer
shows the condition of his kitchen arround
b. Lyric : By the pool last night, apparently. The chemicals
weren't mixed properly
Meaning : denotative
Reason : The denotative meaning of this sentence is the writer
tells what happenend in last night.
c. Lyric : You hit your head and then forgot your name
Meaning : denotative
Reason : The denotative meaning of this sentence is the writer
expresses the condition of himself
d. Lyric : And then you woke up at the bottom by the drain
Meaning : connotative
Reason : it means that a man has poor memories
e. Lyric : Who was there to handle all the broken bits of glass
Meaning : connotative
Reason : it means that no body would solve his problems.
g. The data (07) entitles “Details In the Fabric”
a. Lyric : If you're shocked it's just the fault of faulty
manufacturing
Meaning : denotative
Reason : The denotative meaning of this sentence is the writer
tells us a problematic of manufacturing.
b. Lyric : And pulling all your threads
Meaning : denotative
Reason : the word „pull‟ is refers to exert force on (someone or
something), typically by taking hold of them, in order
to move or try to move them toward oneself or the
origin of the force.
c. Lyric : All the details in the fabric?
Meaning : denotative
Reason : it means particular of the fabric
h. The data (08) entitles “Coyotes”
a. Lyric : I wake and I‟m dialing‟ and my mind‟s running‟ to
you
Meaning : denotative
Reason : The denotative meaning of this sentence is „I” or main
character on „coyote‟ lyric informs that after he wake,
he calls her girl and really loves his girl
b. Lyric : Then the city life has crumbled to the sea. And the girls,
all fall to the lost and found.
Meaning : connotative
Reason : The connotaive meaning of this sentence is the writer
tells the illegality of a country. There is smuggling of
girls.
c. Lyric : And when the coyotes, they sing in the park
Meaning : connotative
Reason : The song writer just wants to interest the listener to
describe the condition arround the park by
personificating coyote which can not sing as it is an
animal
d. Lyric : And the flying men‟ll hit the ground
Meaning : connotative
Reason : It‟s mean; actually, almost all of the peoples in this
word would felt down and feel a sorrow thing.
i. The data (09) entitles “Only Human”
a. Lyric : Only human, made of flesh, made of sand
Meaning : denotative
Reason : The denotative meaning of this sentence is the writer
tells us the origin of human being
b. Lyric : Are you a riddle to solve all along?
Meaning : connotative
Reason : It‟s meant; actually, almost all of the peoples in this
word still not understand what they figure out.
j. The data (10) entitles “The Dynamo Of Volition”
a. Lyric : My phone it beeps because I missed it
Meaning : denotative
Reason : The denotative meaning of this sentence is the writer
tells us that he doesn‟t answer a call deliberately.
b. Lyric : I‟ve got the dynamo of volition
Meaning : connotative
Reason : it means someone have passion to do something.
c. Lyric : Oh, first like bumping and wrist lock
Meaning : denotative
Reason : it means, the writer imagine the pain of himself
k. The data (11) entitles “If It Kills Me”
a. Lyric : Well all I really wanna do love you. A kind much
closer than friends
Meaning : denotative
Reason : The denotative meaning of this sentence is the writer
expresess really love his girl
b. Lyric : I'd ask you to hold my heart in your hand
Meaning : connotative
Reason : The connotative meaning of this sentence is the writer
tells us that he hopes a girl to trust his love
c. Lyric : And I will find a way to you if it kills me
Meaning : connotative
Reason : it means the man would do everything to his girl
l. The data (12) entitles “A beautiful Mess”
a. Lyric : You've got the best of both worlds
Meaning : connotative
Reason : there is no reason with living girl has more than one
world.
b. Lyric : You are strong but you're needy, humble but you're
greedy
Meaning : denotative
Reason : The denotative meaning of this sentence is the writer
tells about his girl‟s personality
c. Lyric : 'Cause I like being submerged in your contradictions,
dear
Meaning : connotative
Reason : it means that he wants to prove himself to his girl
d. Lyric : Well fly like birds not of this earth
Meaning : connotative
Reason : no body could fly like birds.
C. The Message that Contained In Song’s Album Jason Mraz Year 2008
After analyzed about figurative language, denotative and connotative
meaning, here the writer wants to rises up the messages album Jason Mraz
year 2008 songs based on the writer‟s interpretation. The writer finds the
messages that are contained in song‟s album Jason Mraz year 2008 as
follows:
1. Make It Mine
They writer wants to show about the desire of his self. The message that
pocketed in the title song lyric Make It Mine is to reach successions not
only imagine pass dream in sleep but the mentioned dreaming must to be
applied in life day with various businesses.
2. I'm Yours
They writer wants to show about the desire of his self. The message that
pocketed in the title song lyric I‟m Your‟s is brave stiff that "I’m yours",
I undefined. But, sometimes someone late for to stiff it. Until late word
become a matter that must be accepted. That we all has right for be
loved. Because that is the right that to be gave God and don't long for to
approve it and stiff the that girl-friend ours.
3. Lucky (ft. Collbie Caillat)
They writer wants to show about the desire of his self. The message that
pocketed in the title song lyric “Lucky” is to story it about friendship that
changed to somebody love, the mentioned matter to be proofed with
glance "I'm lucky I'm in love with my best friend". This song to story it
distance tent loving far, friendship become love, they meet, make
moment and then to separate, but they are effort to mutual to meet back
and interlace their loving.
4. Butterfly
They writer wants to show about the desire of his self. The message that
pocketed in the title song lyric Butterfly is shadow a perfect woman and
to gave beauty / life parted secluded, where i fall love and to own all
from that to own it.
5. Live High
They writer wants to show about the desire of his self. The message that
pocketed in the title song lyric Live High is God give it a guide to his
people to the true way life and to reach parted, also to set it for man and
woman fairly.
6. Love For A Child
They writer wants to show about the desire of his self. The message that
pocketed in the title song lyric Love For A Child is child's loving in
family within (father and mother) because happen divorcing, until the
child release it body with to cure also to love in age too young. Until
emerge disappointment about what was have been made this as long as.
7. Details In the Fabric
They writer wants to show about the desire of his self. The message that
pocketed in the title song lyric Details in the Fabric is life journey will
better to take up from smallest matters in life day and to do according to
willing self go along journey time.
8. Coyotes
They writer wants to show about the desire of his self. The message that
pocketed in the title song lyric Coyotes are felt mutual to love and watch
by intactness until level emotional can control.
9. Only Human
They writer wants to show about the desire of his self. The message that
pocketed in the title song lyric Only Human is as our human to be
positioned in perfect condition until it‟s proper of us mutual to work
same in situation whatever to realize it the changings that to instruct to
succeed and goodness.
10. The Dynamo Of Volition
They writer wants to show about the desire of his self. The message that
pocketed in the title song lyric The Dynamo of Volition is existence
egoism attitude to execute it vision until don't view people was around it.
11. If It Kills Me
They writer wants to show about the desire of his self. The message that
pocketed in the title song lyric If It Kills Me is existence the checking off
is while we are sigh and feel comfort in various matters, that to finally
emerge the honest love feeling from in heart also to promise to copy
loyal.
12. A Beautiful Mess
They writer wants to show about the desire of his self. The message that
pocketed in the title song lyric A Beautiful Mess is the end waiting for
beautiful to express heart feeling, although to initially be had a look
beside eye with comparison of the surest categories.
This chapter presents the result of data analysis that covers the
description of the figurative language in Jason Mraz Album Entitled We
Sing, We Dance, and We Steal Things. The display of the data was done
formerly by giving the description of the figurative language has found in
Jason Mraz Album. The finding lyric and grouping the figurative language in
lyric can help the readers understand what will be provided by the researcher.
Song is poem voice ones. Song also as combination between music and word
that to be sang. Song not only just to tell about story of life, it is also used as
entertaintment in adding the artistic value in a song, the creators song often
time to use it language style to express it the work. By because that, writer
analyzed usage of language style and connection with context meaning to
song lyric Jason Mraz in album Entitled We Sing, We Dance, and We Steal
Things.
In this analytical, the theory is taken from Keraf to to find the types of
language style to be used to song lyric Jason Mraz in album Entitled We
Sing, We Dance and We Steal Things. Next semantics‟ theory from Saeed to
be used to mean it the context meaning that be found in song lyric Jason
Mraz. According to with the research problem that exist, this analytical to
discuss phenomenon of the types of language style the context's meaning in
song lyric Jason Mraz. The data takes from song lyric entirely Jason Mraz
album year 2008 entitled “We Sing, We Dance and We Steal Things”. This
album contain twelve collection of the songs Jason Mraz that to be taken
outside in 2008. After finishing the analytical, showing result got 5 the
language style type that to be used to songs Jason Mraz in album “We Sing,
We Dance and We Steal Things”. The Usage of type language-style
personification be found most often be found in every song, to be followed
by hyperbole, simile, paradox and metonymy. Besides that also be found
context meaning from the language style that to be used to every song lyric.
The following data shows the research finding about lexical relations,
in the lyrics of Jason Mraz‟s songs which deal with research problems. Each
of the data display is followed by the analysis. The data are presented verse
by verse and the researcher does not include the verse which does not
represent any kinds of lexical relations. Message in album Jason Mraz this is
he want to disperse it wish, give love, peacefulness, creativity, spirituality and
love to all people with small matters easy ones to be applied in life.
Successions don‟t make become greedy, but even on the contrary. Making
Successions Jason Mraz more and more incessant to give it the contribution
to world pass various activitys of positive that walk in the problems of human
-right, environment conservation, art and education, until health.
CHAPTER V
CLOSURE
A. Conclusion
After the writer analyzed the data from Jason Mraz Song‟s album
2008, she found many figurative languages. She took 12 songs of Jason Mraz
Song album 2008, the writer analyzed them based on texts meaning in
figurative language.
1. After analyzed, the Jason Mraz Song album 2008 she gets 44 (fourty four)
figurative languages in all of songs. In this research the writer found, five
types from 13 types of figurative by Frost:
a. Metonymy,
b. Hyperbole,
c. Personification,
d. Simile and
e. paradox.
2. Based on the messages of Jason Mraz Songs album 2008, the writer think
that she wants to tell the listeners of Jason Mraz Songs album 2008, that:
a. love can give a power to some on but in the contrary,
b. love can make someone lost of mind. Love is abstract thing and
irrational.
c. Not just someone to be loved, but also something. Like social arround,
environment and things related to us, to be loved too.
B. Jason Mraz Songs album 2008 have many connotation meanings based on
the data analysis. The writer found more connotation meanings than
denotation meaning. It proves that the composer use connotation meaning
to make the songs being literary work specially Jason Mraz Songs. Not all
songs are as figurative meaning, because as the writer knows that literary
work is romantic and artistic. Connotation meaning sometimes makes the
listeners cannot understand what it means, so the writer tries to make it
clearly. She explained the real meaning of Jason Mraz Songs. Denotation
meaning makes the listeners understand more. But it is less interesting
because the listeners have known the real meaning of the songs.
C. Suggestion
After the writer analyzed the thesis, she wants to give several
suggestions as follow:
1. To the listeners
The writer hopes to the listener of music, especially for the listeners of
Jason Mraz Songs album 2008 can enjoy more the songs by understanding
the figurative of the language used in that songs.
2. To the readers or other researcher
a. She hopes there are many researchers or writers written other topic of
Jason Mraz Song‟s album 2008, because his songs are very
interesting, and many interesting topics to talk about it.
b. She hopes to the other researchers to analyze the language used in the
song from the different point of view.
We Sing We dance We Steal Things by Jason Mraz
1. Make It Mine
Wake up everyone How can you sleep at a time like this
Unless the dreamer is the real you
Listen to your voice The one that tells you To taste past the tip of your tongue Leap in, the net will appear I don't wanna wake before
The dream is over I'm gonna make it mine Yes I, I know it I'm gonna make it mine Yes I'll make it all mine
I keep my life on a heavy rotation
Requesting that it's lifting you up, up, up and away And over to a table at the Gratitude Café And I am finally there And all the angels they'll be singing
Ah la la la, ah la la la I la la la la love you I don't wanna break before The tour is over I'm gonna make it mine Yes I, I'll own it
I'm gonna make it mine Yes I'll make it all mine And timing's everything
And this time there's plenty I am balancing
Careful and steady And reveling in energy that everyone's emitting Well I don't wanna wait no more Oh I wanna celebrate the whole world I'm gonna make it mine Oh yes I'm following your joy
I'm gonna make it mine Because I, I am open I'm gonna make it mine
That's why, I will show it I'm gonna make it mine Gonna make it mine Oh mine
Yes I'll make it all mine
2. I'm Yours Well you done done me and you bet I felt it I tried to be chill but you're so hot that I melted Before the cool done run out I'll be giving it my bestest And nothing's going to stop me but divine intervention
I reckon it's again my turn to win some or learn some But I won't hesitate no more, no more
It cannot wait, I'm yours Well open up your mind and see like me
Open up your plans and damn you're free Look into your heart and you'll find love love love love Listen to the music of the moment people, dance and sing We're just one big family And it's our God-forsaken right to be loved loved love love
So I won't hesitate no more, no more It cannot wait, I'm sure There's no need to complicate, our time is short This is our fate, I'm yours D-d-do do you, but do you, d-d-do But do you want to come on
Scooch on over closer dear And I will nibble your ear I've been spending way too long checking my tongue in the mirror And bending over backwards just to try to see it clearer But my breath fogged up the glass
And so I drew a new face and I laughed I guess what I be saying is there ain't no better reason To rid yourself of vanities and just go with the seasons It's what we aim to do, our name is our virtue But I won't hesitate no more, no more
It cannot wait, I'm yours Open up your mind and see like me (I won't hesitate) Open up your plans and damn you're free
(No more, no more) Look into your heart and you'll find that the sky is yours (It cannot wait, I'm sure)
So please don't please don't, there's no need (There's no need to complicate) There's no need to complicate (Our time is short) Our time is short
(This is our fate)
This is, this is, this is our fate I'm yours Oh, I'm yours
Oh, I'm yours Oh, whoa, baby you believe I'm yours You best believe, best believe I'm yours
3. Lucky (ft. Collbie Caillat)
[Jason]
Do you hear me,
I'm talking to you
Across the water across the deep blue ocean
Under the open sky, oh my, baby I'm trying
[Colbie]
Boy I hear you in my dreams
I feel your whisper across the sea
I keep you with me in my heart
You make it easier when life gets hard
[Both]
I'm lucky I'm in love with my best friend
Lucky to have been where I have been
Lucky to be coming home again
Ooohh ooooh oooh oooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
[Both]
They don't know how long it takes
Waiting for a love like this
Every time we say goodbye
I wish we had one more kiss
I'll wait for you I promise you, I will
[Both]
I'm lucky I'm in love with my best friend
Lucky to have been where I have been
Lucky to be coming home again
Lucky we're in love in every way
Lucky to have stayed where we have stayed
Lucky to be coming home someday
[Jason]
And so I'm sailing through the sea
To an island where we'll meet
You'll hear the music fill the air
I'll put a flower in your hair
[Colbie]
Though the breezes through trees
Move so pretty you're all I see
As the world keeps spinning round
You hold me right here right now
[Both]
I'm lucky I'm in love with my best friend
Lucky to have been where I have been
Lucky to be coming home again
I'm lucky we're in love in every way
Lucky to have stayed where we have stayed
Lucky to be coming home someday
Ooohh ooooh oooh oooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooooh ooooh oooh oooh ooh ooh ooh ooh 4. Butterfly
I'm taking a moment just imaginin' that I'm dancin' with you
I'm your pole and all you're wearing is your shoes
You got soul, you know what to do to turn me on until I write a song about you
And you have your own engaging style
And you've got the knack to vivify
And you make my slacks a little tight, you may unfasten them if you like
That's if you crash and spend the night
But you don't fold, you don't fade
You've got everything you need, especially me
Sister you've got it all
You make the call to make my day
In your message say my name
Your talk is all the talk, sister you've got it all
You've got it all
Curl your upper lip up and let me look around
Ride your tongue along your bottom lip and bite down
And bend your back and ask those hips if I can touch
'Cause they're the perfect jumping off point, getting closer to your
Butterfly
Well you float on by
Oh, kiss me with your eyelashes tonight
Or Eskimo your nose real close to mine
And let's mood the lights and finally make it right
But you don't fold, you don't fade, you've got everything you need
Especially me
Sister you've got it all
You make the call to make my day
In you message say my name
Your talk is all the talk, sister you've got it all
You've got it all, you've got it all, you've got it all (2x)
You've got it all, you've got it all
Doll I need to see you pull your knee socks up
Let me feel you up side, down slide, in slide, out slide, over here
Climb in my mouth now child
*scat*
Butterfly, well you landed on my mind
Damn right you landed on my ear and then you crawled inside
And now I see you perfectly behind closed eyes
I wanna fly with you and I don't wanna lie to you
Cause I, cause I can't recall a better day
So I'm coming to shine on the occasion
You're an open minded lady
You've got it all
And I never forget a face
'Cept for maybe my own
I have my days
Let's face the fact here, it's you who's got it all
You know that fortune favors the brave
Well let me get paid while I make you breakfast
The rest is up to you, you make the call
You make the call to make my day
In your message say my name
Your talk is all the talk, sister you've got it all
I can't recall a better day
So I'm coming to shine on the occasion
You're a sophisticated lady, oh you've got it all
You've got it all, you've got it all, you've got it all (3x)
You've got it all, you've got it all...
Butterfly, baby, well you've got it all
5. Live High
I try to picture a girl through a looking glass
And see her as a carbon atom, see her eyes and stare back at them
See that girl as her own new world
Though her home is on the surface she is still a universe
Glory God, oh God is peeking through the blinds
Are we all here standing naked
Taking guesses at the actual date and time
Oh my, justifying reasons why
Is an absolutely insane resolution to live by
Live high, live mighty
Live righteously takin' it easy
Live high, live mighty
Live righteously
I try to picture the man to always have an open hand
See him as a giving tree, see him as matter
Matter of fact he's not a beast
No, not the devil either, always a good deed doer
Well, it's laughter that we're makin' after all
The call of the wild is still in order nationwide
In the order of the primates all our politics are too late
Oh my, the congregation in my mind
Is an assembly selling gratitude and practicing their lovin' for you
Live high, live mighty
Live righteously takin' it easy
Live high, live mighty
Live righteously
And oh, let's take it easy and celebrate the malleable reality
Because nothing is ever as it seems, this life is but a dream
Live high, live mighty
Live righteously takin' it easy
Live high, live mighty
Live righteously, let's take it easy
Live high, live mighty
Live righteously takin' it easy
Live high, live mighty
Live righteously, let's take it easy
6. Love For A Child
There's a picture on my kitchen wall
Looks like Jesus and his friends involved
There's a party getting started in the yard
There's a couple getting steamy in the car parked in the drive
Was I too young to see this with my eyes?
By the pool last night, apparently
The chemicals weren't mixed properly
You hit your head and then forgot your name
And then you woke up at the bottom by the drain
And now your altitude and memory's a shame
What about taking this empty cup and filling it up
With a little bit more of innocence
I haven't had enough, it's probably because when you're young
It's okay to be easily ignored
I like to believe it was all about love for a child
And when the house was left in shambles
Who was there to handle all the broken bits of glass
Was it mom who put my dad out on his ass or the other way around
Well I'm far too old to care about that now
What about taking this empty cup and filling it up
With a little bit more of innocence
I haven't had enough, it's probably because when you're young
It's okay to be easily ignored
I'd like to believe it was all about love for a child
It's kinda nice to work the floor since the divorce
I've been enjoying both my Christmases and my birthday cakes
And taking drugs and making love at far too young an age
and they never check to see my grades
What a fool I'd be to start complaining now
What about taking this empty cup and filling it up
With a little bit more of innocence
I haven't had enough, it's probably because when you're young
It's okay to be easily ignored
I'd love to believe it's all about love for a child
It was all about love...
7. Details In the Fabric
Calm down
Deep breaths
And get yourself dressed instead
Of running around
And pulling on your threads and
Breaking yourself up
If it's a broken part, replace it
If it's a broken arm then brace it
If it's a broken heart then face it
And hold your own
Know your name
And go your own way
Hold your own
Know your name
And go your own way
And everything will be fine
Hang on
Help is on the way
Stay strong
I'm doing everything
Hold your own
Know your name
And go your own way
Hold your own
Know your name
And go your own way
And everything
Everything will be fine
Everything
Are the details in the fabric
Are the things that make you panic
Are your thoughts results of static cling
Are the things that make you blow
Hell, no reason, go on and scream
If you're shocked it's just the fault
Of faulty manufacturing
Everything will be fine
Everything in no time at all
Everything
Hold your own
And know your name
And go your own way
Are the details in the fabric (Hold your own, know your name)
Are the things that make you panic
Are your thoughts results of static cling (Go your own way)
Are the details in the fabric (Hold your own, know your name)
Are the things that make you panic (Go your own way)
Is it Mother Nature's sewing machine
Are the things that make you blow (Hold your own, know your name)
Hell no reason go on and scream
If you're shocked it's just the fault (Go your own way)
Of faulty manufacturing
Everything will be fine
Everything in no time at all
Hearts will hold
8. Coyotes
I'm sipping coffee at a quarter to two
Awake and I'm dailing and my mind's running to you
No wonder I'm a one woman man
She keeps my heart in a jar on the nightstand
I should tell her that she couldn't be more
Opposite than a foot in the door
There's no one else I would rather go out with
Thats hell when I see them standing there
Me and my mouth we don't mean to be rushing
We talk about the freely cuz we crushing
I'm gonna shake both sides of the butt, yeah
Theoretically, yes ain't we lucky
And when the coyotes, they sing in the park
That's when the city lights starts falling for the sea
Winding roads are winding down
And the flying metal hit the ground
Every notion is closer to touching
The coyotes sing when they call on your lovin'
Hello?
We're coming back for more
You know why we're coming for you
You know we should be, we should be together
Cuz once we rock, we won't wanna stop
Not today or tomorrow
You better lock your doors
You know why, cuz we want you
Cuz we like you a lot
I wish the world was alive like you
I wish the wind would blow me through
Another opportunity to approach you
Another telepathic rendezvous
I wish you well with the rope and the jargon
You got a double-sided lexicon
I got to try to keep your attention
Gotta write using less emoticons
Gotta figure out the snooze alarm
I wanna lay in the place till dawn
I wanna play in the park, come on
Now let me see your other upper eschelon
And when the coyotes escape to New York
Then the city life has crumbled to the sea
And the girls will fall to the lost and found
The flying metal hit the ground
Every notion is closer to touching
The coyotes sing when they feast on your lovin'
I'm a coyote, and I've got a taste for your lovin'
We're coming back for more
You know why we're coming for you
You know we should be, we should be together
Because once we rock, we won't wanna stop
Not today or tomorrow 9. Only Human
A squirrel in the tree is he watching me
Does he give a damn
Does he care who I am
I'm just a man, is that all I am
Are my manners misinterpreted words or only human
I'm human
Murderous crow, hey what you know
What you reading about, what you hold in your toes
Is that a twig, are you a dove of peace
A black dove undercover, with another puzzle piece
Are you a riddle to solve all along?
Or am I over thinking thoughts of human after all
Only human
Made of flesh, made of sand, made of human
The planet's talking about a revolution
The natural laws ain't got no constitution
They've got a right to live their own life
But we keep paving over paradise
'Cause we're only human
Oh yes we are, only human
If it's our only excuse do you think we'll keep on being only human
Oh, yes we are
Only human
So far, so far
Up in the major's tree, the one he planted back when he was just a boy
Back in 1923
Thirty meters and a foot, take a look, take a climb
What you'll find is the product of a seed
The seed is sown, all alone
It grows above, with a heart of love
Sharp and shelter of the animals of land and cold weather breathing
We're all breathing
The planet's talking about a revolution
The natural laws ain't got no constitution
They've got a right to live their own life
But we keep paving over paradise
'Cause we're only human
Yes we are, only human
If it's our only excuse do you think we'll keep on being only human
Yes we are, only human, so far, so far
And this place, it will outlive me
Before I get to heaven I'll climb that tree
And I will have to give my thanks
For giving me the branch to swing on
If I ever fall in love
I'll have to give myself a baby
I will let my children have their way
'Cause we're only human, yes we are
Only human, so far, so far
So far, so far 10. The Dynamo Of Volition
I've got the dynamo of volition
With po-pole position Automatic transmission with lo-ow emissions I'm a brand new addition to the old edition with the love unconditional I'm a drama abolitionist Damn no opposition to my proposition
Half of a man, half magician Half a politician holding the mic
Like ammunition And my vision is as simple as light Ain't no reason we should be in a fight
No demolition Get to vote, get to say what you like Procreation Compositions already written by themselves Heck is for the people not believin' in gosh Good Job
Get 'em up way high Gimme gimme that high five Good time
Get 'em way down low Gimme gimme that low dough Good God
Bring 'em back again Gimme gimme that high ten You're the best definition of good intention I do not answer the call if I do not know who is calling I guess the whole point of it all is
That we never know really I'm tryin' to keep with the Joneses While waiting for guns and the roses To finish what we all suppose is gonna be That shit was so lame
Oh, fist like pumpin and wrist lock twisting up a rizla Kid Icarus on the transister Nintendo been givin' me the blister I bend over take it in the kisser
Best friends are hittin' on my sister Try to tell them that they still wish-a 'Cause she already got herself a mister And besides that's gross to want to dis her Didn't I say, didn't I say Good Job
Get 'em up way high Gimme gimme that high five Good time Get 'em way down low
Gimme gimme that low dough Good God Bring 'em back again
Gimme gimme that high ten You're the best definition of good versus evil I do not keep up with statistics I do not sleep without a mistress I do not eat unless it's fixed with
some kind of sweet like a licorice
My home is deep inside the mystics I'm known to keep diggin on existence I'm holdin' in the heat like a fishstick My phone it beeps because I missed it
I do not answer the call if I do not know who is calling I'm making no sense of it all Say, can I get a witness I'm only a boy in a story
Just a hallucinatory Trippin' on nothing there is Living in the wilderness
With a tiger spot on my back Living life of a cat
I just wanna relax here And write another rap tune Driving off on your blind man's bike You can say just what you like Or nothing can stop you Good Job
Get 'em up way high Gimme gimme that high five Good time Get 'em way down low Gimme gimme that low dough Good God Bring 'em back again
Gimme gimme that high ten You're the best (x7) Good Job Get 'em up way high Gimme gimme that high five
Good time Get 'em way down low Gimme gimme that low dough Good God Bring 'em back again Gimme gimme that high ten You're the best definition of good intention (x3)
You're the best around
11. If It Kills Me Hello, tell me you know
Yeah, you figured me out Something gave it away It would be such a beautiful moment
To see the look on your face To know that I know that you know now And baby that's a case of my wishful thinking You know nothing Cause you and I
Why, we go carrying on for hours, on and
We get along much better Than you and your boyfriend Well all I really wanna do is a love you
A kind much closer than friends use But I still can't say it after all we've been through And all I really want from you is to feel me As the feeling inside keeps building And I will find a way to you if it kills me If it kills me
Well how long, can I go on like this, Wishing to kiss you, Before I rightly explode?
This double life I lead isn't healthy for me In fact it makes me nervous If I get caught I could be risking it all
Baby there's a lot that I miss In case I'm wrong Well all I really wanna do is love you A kind much closer than friends use But I still can't say it after all we've been through
And all I really want from you is to feel me As the feeling inside keeps building And I will find a way to you if it kills me If it kills me If I should be so bold I'd ask you to hold my heart in your hand
Tell you from the start how I've longed to be your man But I never said I would I guess I'm gonna miss my chance again All I really wanna do is love you A kind much closer than friends use
But I still can't say it after all we've been through And all I really want from you is to feel me As the feeling inside keeps building And I will find a way to you if it kills me If it kills me If it kills me I think it might kill me
And all I really want from you is to feel me It's a feeling inside that keeps building And I will find a way to you if it kills me
If it kills me If it kills me It might kill me
12. A beautiful Mess\
You've got the best of both worlds You're the kind of girl who can take down a man, And lift him back up again You are strong but you're needy,
Humble but you're greedy
Based on your body language, And shoddy cursive I've been reading Your style is quite selective, but your mind is rather reckless
Well I guess it just suggests that this is just what happiness is Hey, what a beautiful mess this is It's like picking up trash in dresses Well it kind of hurts when the kind of words you write
Kind of turn themselves into knives And don't mind my nerves you can call it fiction 'Cause I like being submerged in your contradictions dear
'Cause here we are, here we are Although you were biased I love your advice
Your comebacks they're quick And probably have to do with your insecurities There's no shame in being crazy, Depending on how you take these Words they're paraphrasing this relationship we're staging And it's a beautiful mess, yes it is
It's like, we're picking up trash in dresses Well it kind of hurts when the kind of words you say Kind of turn themselves into blades And kind and courteous is a life I've heard But it's nice to say that we played in the dirt Cause here, here we are, Here we are
Here we are x7 We're still here And what a beautiful mess this is It's like taking a guess when the only answer is yes
And through timeless words and priceless pictures We'll fly like birds not of this earth And tides they turn and hearts disfigure But that's no concern when we're wounded together And we tore our dresses and stained our shirts But it's nice today, oh the wait was so worth it