Choose your favorite song (or one of your favorite songs), and write about why it is you enjoy that song.
Is there something about the beat, the lyrics, the artist, etc that draws you to listen to that song? Is
there a message you are interested in? Etc. Really just try to dive into what you enjoy about the song.;
The song “Demons” by Our last night is one of my favorite songs because it tells us that everyone has a
dark side and every day, we face some sort of challenge that either asks out to embrace or deny our
dark side. The beat is a loud drumming with electric guitar riffs, representing the conflicting soul. The
song itself starts with “Buried far beneath, hiding in the deep.” This depicts the subconscious mind or
the soul. The next verse is “the perfect enemy, oh-woah, the darkness changes shape to exist in every
place. There is no escape, oh-woah. The purpose of this verse is to explain that the perfect enemy is
essential a darker version of you because you know your own strengths and weaknesses. The part about
the darkness changes shape to exist in every place, means that no matter where you go whether your
asleep or awake is that you can never escape your demons. If you try to suppress them, later they will
come out more intensely. So, it is important for you to confront your “demons” or lose yourself trying
not to. The phrase “Like a spider spinning a web of deception, we’re tangled up”, gives the concept that
we’re essential bound to follow, what people want for us, rather than what we want for ourselves. In
other words, to appease society, we as human beings are forced to create new personas; instead of
showing our true personas or who we really are. This can be symbolized to how in ancient times, people
wouldn’t break a mirror because of the superstition that the mirror represented the various identities or
different personalities that the soul contained and that breaking the mirror represented the idea of
destroying one’s own soul. On the other hand, today, the idea has changed to the idea that mirrors have
caused individuals to change themselves to fit in society as the mirrors are now clean and show a
perfect reflection of your body, rather than the opaque and dirty mirrors of the past that showed the
body but as a shadow or apparition. This made it, so that individuals didn’t need to put as much effort
on their bodies, as the only thing they would see would be the brief distortion of their reflection; outline
of the human body and the clothes that it’s wearing. As a result, today, we are forced to worry about
what we look like and change what we don’t like about our bodies. An example of this is a teenage boy
who looks at the mirror and sees that his hair is messed up and his body appears to be overweight. Even
though, his body is in perfect shape or at “peak performance”, the teenager tries to change his body, so
that he gains the approval of people around him.