Title of the

No Lyrics Figurative Language Example Word

Song
1 A Thousand I have died Hyperbole - I have died
Years everyday everyday waiting
waiting for you Reason: for you
Darling don’t be - I have loved you for
afraid I have The writer expresses how much she a thousand years,
loved you misses someone by using “I have I’ll love you for a
For a thousand died everyday waiting for you” thousand more
years which means she has been waiting
I’ll love you for a for a long time to meet this specific
thousand more person. She did not literally ‘dying’,
she wants to tell the listener that
her heart aches even more as she
waits. She is eager to meet this
person because she misses
her/him.

The writer also emphasizes, that

not only does she miss this person,
but she also loves her/him by
writing “I have loved you for a
thousand years, I’ll love you for a
thousand more” meaning she has
loved this person for a long time,
and she is not going to stop loving
him/her in the future.
2 Anthem of The stars will cry Personification and Hyperbole - The stars will cry
Our Dying The blackest the blackest tears
Day tears tonight Reason: tonight
And this is the
moment that I The writer describes how ‘the
live for stars’, which is supposedly
I can smell the classified as one of the dead things,
ocean air cry like humans do, by saying “the
And here I am stars will cry”. Also, the writer
Pouring my exaggeratedly expresses how
heart onto everyone else would be very sad by
these rooftops saying “will cry the blackest tears
tonight”, to emphasize it is so sad
that even the world is going to cry.
3 Airplanes Can we pretend Simile - Can we pretend
that airplanes in that airplanes in
the night sky are Reason: the night sky are
like shooting like shooting stars
stars The writer wants the listener to
 I could really agree with her imagination by
use a wish right saying “can we pretend that…”, and
now, a wish what she was addressing how
right now, a airplanes in the sky moves like
wish right now shooting stars by saying “that
airplanes in the night sky are like
shooting stars”, meaning that
airplane only looks like a tiny thing
from the ground, moving swiftly
across the sky just like a shooting
star. She continues with “I could
really use a wish right now”,
meaning that she compares
airplanes with shooting stars
because she wants to see shooting
stars instead so she could make a
wish.
4 Big Girls And I’m gonna Simile - I’m gonna miss you
Don’t Cry miss you like a like a child misses
child misses Reason: their blanket
their blanket
But I’ve got to The writer expresses how she will
get a move on miss a specific person so much by
with my life comparing the feeling of missing
It’s time to be a someone to how a child can’t be
big girl now apart from their blanket, by saying
And big girls “I’m gonna miss you like a child
don’t cry misses their blanket” which means
Don’t cry, don’t that the writer cannot think of
cry, don’t cry being apart with this specific
person, and she is so sure that she
will be missing him/her.
5 Just Give Me Right from the Metaphor - You were a thief
A Reason start
You were a thief Reason:
You stole my
heart The writer explains how this person
And I your wins her heart by saying “you were
willing victim a thief; you stole my heart”
I let you see the comparing this person to a thief
parts of me who steals things. The writer was
That weren’t all not in love with anyone, and
that pretty suddenly when this person came,
And with every she fell in love easily because of the
tough you fixed slick moves made by this person.
them The writer continues with “and I
your willing victim”, meaning that
she fell into the trap willingly, then
 was helplessly in love with this
person.
6 Grenade What you don’t Hyperbole - I’d catch a grenade
understand is for ya
I’d catch a Reason: - Throw my hand on
grenade for ya a blade for ya
Throw my hand The writer is telling the listener - I’d jump in front of
on a blade for how he was madly in love with this a train for ya
ya person by how he would gladly and - Take a bullet
I’d jump in front willingly sacrifice himself even if it straight through my
of a train for ya means he needs to die. He brain
You know I’d do concludes at the end by saying “I
anything for ya would go through all this pain”,
Oh oh oh oh after listing examples of the
I would go sacrifice he would do just so he
through all this would be able to keep this person
pain (to love the person).
Take a bullet
straight through
my brain
7 Stereo My heart’s a Metaphor - My heart’s a stereo
Hearts stereo
It beats for you, Reason:
so listen close
Hear my The writer comparing how her
thoughts in heart beats to a stereo in “my
every note heart’s a stereo”, meaning that it
Make me your beats loudly and rhythmically. The
radio writer is trying to express how his
Turn me up heart beats for the person he has a
when you feel crush on by saying “it beats for you
low so listen close,” and “this melody
This melody was was meant for you”, he wants
meant for you him/her to listen to it, and he
Just sing along wants the person to know, by
to my stereo saying “hear my thoughts in every
Oh oh oh oh note, make me your radio”
To my stereo
Oh oh oh oh
So sing along to
my stereo
8 Hey There Hey there Hyperbole - I’m a thousand
Delilah Delilah what’s it miles away, but girl
like in New York Reason: tonight you look so
City pretty
I’m a thousand The writer expresses how he is - Time Square can’t
miles away mesmerized by this person, by shine as bright as
 But girl tonight saying “I’m a thousand miles away, you
you look so but girl tonight you look so pretty”
pretty, yes you meaning that Delilah is so beautiful
do that even when he is so far away he
Times Square can see the beauty. He continues
can’t shine as with “Time Square can’t shine as
bright as you, I bright as you”, meaning that
swear it’s true Delilah looks so pretty that she
shines even more than a busy spot
in New York like Time Square with
all the lights from all high rise
buildings and shiny billboards at
night.
9 Firework Cause baby, Metaphor - You’re a firework
you’re a - As you shoot across
firework Reason: the sky
Come on show
them what The writer expresses how this
you’re worth person is so bright, amazing, and
Make them go, full of potential by comparing them
“Oh, oh, oh” to a firework, saying “cause baby
As you shoot you’re a firework”. She tries to
across the sky push this person by saying “Come
on show them what you’re worth,”
Baby you’re a so that this person show the full
firework potential, and expressing how this
Come on let person would succeed just like a
your colors firework shoots across the sky by
burst saying “as you shoot across the
Make them go, sky”.
“Oh, oh, oh”
10 Little Talks

Hyperbole: Berlebih-lebihan, lebay

Metaphor: Kiasan, menyamakan sesuatu (contoh: Time is money)

Personification: Perumpamaan benda mati dengan sifat menyerupai manusia (seakan-akan benda yang
ditulis merupakan manusia)

Simile: Kiasan, menyerupai (Contoh: She swam like a fish, He was as quiet as a mouse)