Piolo Ysidore Serrano

Art Appreciation MW 5:40pm – 7:10pm

November Rain
Performed by Guns N’ Roses

When I look into your eyes

I can see a love restrained
But darlin' when I hold you
Don't you know I feel the same

Nothin' lasts forever

And we both know hearts can change
And it's hard to hold a candle
In the cold November rain

We've been through this such a long long time

Just tryin' to kill the pain, oo yeah
But love is always coming and love is always going
And no one's really sure who's lettin' go today
Walking away

If we could take the time

To lay it on the line
I could rest my head
Just knowin' that you were mine
All mine
So if you want to love me
Then darlin' don't refrain
Or I'll just end up walkin'
In the cold November rain

Do you need some time on your own

Do you need some time all alone
Everybody needs some time
On their own
Don't you know you need some time all alone

I know it's hard to keep an open heart

When even friends seem out to harm you
But if you could heal a broken heart
Wouldn't time be out to charm you

Sometimes I need some time

On my own
Sometimes I need some time all alone
Everybody needs some time
On their own
Don't you know you need some time all alone

And when your fears subside

And shadows still remain, oh yeah
I know that you can love me
When there's no one left to blame
So never mind the darkness
We still can find a way
'Cause nothin' lasts forever
Even cold November rain

Don't ya think that you need somebody

Don't ya think that you need someone
Everybody needs somebody
You're not the only one
You're not the only one

Don't ya think that you need somebody

Don't ya think that you need someone
Everybody needs somebody
You're not the only one
You're not the only one

Don't ya think that you need somebody

Don't ya think that you need someone
Everybody needs somebody
You're not the only one
You're not the only one

Don't ya think that you need somebody

Don't ya think that you need someone
Everybody needs somebody

Semiotic Iconic Contextual Evaluative

The song November The theme of the song November Rain is an To write a song like
Rain is a fusion of is unrequited love. American rock song “November Rain”
classical music and 80s Iconic images used are released by Guns N’ requires a high artistic
- 90s hard rock. The flames to symbolize Roses in 1991 as part skill and a lot of
song was part of the passion and love, and of the double album creativity as it is not
wave of rock ballads the rain to symbolize Use Your Illusion I and easy to compose a 9
that came out that sorrow, hard times, or Use Your Illusion II. It minute song, originally
time, being one of the other dark emotions. was written by the 25 minutes,
biggest hits of the time. The song is about band’s singer Axl Rose accompanied by an
The song is 8 minutes unrequited love. way back in the early orchestra which
and 56 seconds long, Throughout the song, 80s but was not made involves multiple and
has no traditional the writer talks about part of their debut varying layers of sound.
chorus, and ends with how painful or horrible album, Appetite for The song is very
a breakdown. An the feeling of loving Destruction, due to relatable to a lot of
orchestra plays someone who does not Rose feeling that the people, including
throughout the song, love you back is as song was still myself, as everyone
composed of symbolized by the “incomplete” and that has experienced
traditional wind, string, major imagery that the releasing a rock ballad unrequited love.
and percussion writer uses, the cold would make their Dealing with
instruments. The song November rain. The image “soft”. The song unrequited love is a
becomes “heavier” or rain is a metaphor for peeked at number 3 on huge learning
moves to a more rock the “coldness” of the the Billboard Hot 100 experience for
sound as the song feeling of unrequited chart in 1992 and it everyone and
progresses. As like any love. The line “…it’s was, and still is, the depending on the
other ballad, the song hard to hold a candle in longest song to reach person, that
has a medium pace and the cold November the top 10, running for unrequited love can
evokes feelings of rain” is a metaphor for 8:56 take up a large portion
sorrow, pain, longing, how difficult it is to of their lives
desperation, and hope love someone who
does not return the
feeling, the burning
candle being the
representation of love
and the rain being the
representation of the
absence of love. The
writer of the song
remains hopeful
throughout the song
that the love of his life
will eventually love him
back as represented by
the line “…nothin’ lasts
forever, even cold
November rain”