![]() ![]() The use of the word ‘you’ in this piece is also very deliberate. By this stage the persona and her partner have had kids, and through the line ‘you stay out drinking late at the bar, see more of your friends than you do of your kids’ the original statement that taking a physical journey does not always mean escaping problems in our life, is reinforced be the use of the repetitive cycle that what she was running away has secretly followed her. This is also shown as vicious and familiar habits begin to form as the persona’s boyfriend starts mirroring the actions of her father. ![]() This is portrayed in the vast contrast of her description of amazing hope at the beginning of the song, to her growingly sceptical view of the situation that she encompasses now. In the next stanza, though, her hope takes a turn for the worst as her life plummets further and further away from where she wants to be. This comment also implies to the listener that this song with be conclude with a resolved ending. The verb ‘know’ is a very strong word that effectively communicates the composer’s point, that there are no maybes about it, she is SURE that things will start to look up soon. Nevertheless, there is still a huge sense of optimism portrayed here through the certainty of the way the persona says ‘I know things will get better’. In the 6th stanza, the boyfriend is unemployed and they both live in a shelter, which is something neither of them planned. This piece also presents the idea that taking a physical journey does not always mean that we escape the problems that exist in our life, which is shown in the disintegration of hope once the characters reach the physical destination of their journey, as they slowly begin discover it is not as great as they originally thought it was going to be. In the line ‘I had a feeling that I belonged, I had a feeling I could be someone’, we are shown that she finally feels comfortable and has developed the sense of identity that she longed for that things are for once, acting in her favour. All her life the persona has felt a great want to fit it, to feel like she had a purpose. The ‘fast car’ is a metaphorical symbol of leaving behind her old life and ‘speeding’ towards what she thinks will await better opportunities. The chorus of this song really emphasises the freedom that the character feels. ![]() This break in the cycle demands the listener’s attention so that they are forced to understand the importance of it. This stanza is also the only one that doesn’t begin with ‘you got a fast car’. The third stanza is depicted as a main reason why the persona wants to leave her town she is certain that she wants a life nothing like her parents’. The cumulation of plans that the persona has made in the second stanza adds a tone of excitement and optimism, and reinforces her hopeful and eager attitude towards the journey that lay before her.Ī sense of wanderlust is portrayed here, too, as she is longing so greatly for places she has never been. ‘Starting from zero, got nothing to lose’ also depicts that she feels as if she’s got nothing worthwhile to leave behind because of her dead end situation, and she can’t go anywhere but forward. With the use of the adverb ‘anywhere’ and the pronoun ‘anyplace’ in these lines, the broad spectrum of the persona’s imagination is successfully offered. ![]() It is also through these colloquial expressions that a lack of education is implied, along with introducing the possibility of a poverty stricken environment which reinforces her desperation to get away. ![]()
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