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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

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious and Most Merciful,

Hereby, the writer declares that this graduating paper is written by the

writer herself. This paper does not contain materials which having been published

by other people and other people‟s idea except the information from the

references.

The writer makes this declaration, and she hopes this declaration can be

understood.

Salatiga, September 14th

2016

The writer

NURFIYANTI

113 08 028

WRITING ORIGINALNESS STATEMENT

The signee I-hand, under this:

Name : Nurfiyanti

NIM : 113 08 028

Faculty : TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION FACULTY

Majors : ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

State that a graduating paper that I write this truly is my work result self

not copying of work write other people. Opinion or meeting other people that got

in a graduating this paper be quoted or be referred the ethic-code scientifically.


2016

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


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


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.


2016

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Education Faculty

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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

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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

http://www.frostfriends.org/

http://www.orangeusd.k12.ca.us/yorba/figurative_language.htm

http://au.encarta.msn.com/text_761577842_1/Figure_of_Speech.html

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

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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


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


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


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


4. Butterfly

5. Live High

6. Love For A Child


8. Coyotes

9. Only Human


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


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


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


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


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


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



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



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



to say “I said honest want with you”

b. Lyric : Butterfly, well you landed on my mind


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



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


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


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


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



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


Reason : The writer just wants to say “parted place stay in

universe”

c. Lyric : Glory God, oh God is peeking through the blinds


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


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



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


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



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


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


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


Reason : It has closely associated with “evaluation/character

from someone”

b. Lyric : Murderous crow, hey what you know


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


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


to say “comprehension a the regulation is applied to

child since age early”

e. Lyric : The planet's talking about a revolution


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



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


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


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


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


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



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


to say “confusion a feeling expressing man to a girl”

b. Lyric : We'll fly like birds not of this earth


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,



to say “to praise of prettiness a girl”

d. Lyric : And tides they turn and hearts disfigure



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


Reason : The connotative meaning of the word “taste past” is

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“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


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



god's of power.

b. Lyric : But my breath fogged up the glass


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


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



existence spirited in the life.

Lyric : I'm talking to you Across the water across the deep

blue ocean


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


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


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



expresses what the girl have done to him.

c. Lyric : Butterfly well you landed on my mind


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



take picture a girl

b. Lyric : I try to picture the man to always have an open hand



take picture a male who open his hand

c. Lyric : Though her home is on the surface she is still a

universe


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


Reason : it means he admires a girl. Phrase „giving tree‟ looks

like a giving. Hyperbolyc language expressed for

beloved girl.

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e. Lyric : The call of the wild is still on ordinary why


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



shows the condition of his kitchen arround

b. Lyric : By the pool last night, apparently. The chemicals

weren't mixed properly



tells what happenend in last night.

c. Lyric : You hit your head and then forgot your name



expresses the condition of himself

d. Lyric : And then you woke up at the bottom by the drain


Reason : it means that a man has poor memories

e. Lyric : Who was there to handle all the broken bits of glass


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



tells us a problematic of manufacturing.

b. Lyric : And pulling all your threads


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?


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


Reason : The denotative meaning of this sentence is „I” or main

character on „coyote‟ lyric informs that after he wake,

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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.


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


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


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



tells us the origin of human being

b. Lyric : Are you a riddle to solve all along?


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



tells us that he doesn‟t answer a call deliberately.

b. Lyric : I‟ve got the dynamo of volition


Reason : it means someone have passion to do something.

c. Lyric : Oh, first like bumping and wrist lock


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



expresess really love his girl

b. Lyric : I'd ask you to hold my heart in your hand


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


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


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



tells about his girl‟s personality

c. Lyric : 'Cause I like being submerged in your contradictions,

dear


Reason : it means that he wants to prove himself to his girl

d. Lyric : Well fly like birds not of this earth


Reason : no body could fly like birds.

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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


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.



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


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


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


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.



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


pocketed in the title song lyric Coyotes are felt mutual to love and watch

by intactness until level emotional can control.

9. Only Human


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.



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


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


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

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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


[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]




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


[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 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


In you message say my name


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


In your message say my name


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 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 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 righteously, let's take it easy




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





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





I'd love to believe it's all about love for a child

It was all about love...


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 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 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

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