I know I look very cui. Don't judge. My comp spoil, can't upload photos. Hence, it's just a simple photo I took with my brother's webcam. I look like a ghost. Okay. Jasmine says this = air blowjob, FUUU hahah.

WARNING K. THIS IS GONNA BE A LONG POST. It's my practice for literature class.

First, watch this or my post will be jibberish.

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I wanted to put the thing here so you don't have to go to youtube but they disabled the embedding -.- The song is one of my blogsongs, Secondhand Serenade - Something More.

Time to show you what a literature class is like! :D Sorry about the small fonts today. My brother's laptop refuses to change the font size on blogger. I'll edit it after my computer is fixed.

Firstly, the singer is a guy. Guys rarely show emotions to others, they usually show emotions alone, they have feelings too. The fact that the MV has this guy as a main lead shows the depth and naked feelings of a guy.

The story revolves around this house. A house is just four walls and a roof. But a home is consisting of people you love, family. Everyone enters through the same door, and they move about the house as they usually do every day. However, you can see that they are translucent. This shows how invisible they feel they are to others despite being all together in a single room. How invisible they feel on a daily basis, just doing basic things.

There is a silhouette of the singer. He is alone. The silhouette reminds people of a shadow. Are we all shadows? Supports above evidence of being invisible, because how often do you notice your shadow? He has pen and paper and sings playing the piano. A while later, he lies in all these crumpled pieces of paper with writing and emos. LOL.

The couple sits on the bed, in a daze. They seem immune and numb of life. They ignore the kid. There is an age gap. The child represents innocence. All he has to do is play. Hence, he seems very happy. The adults however, seem to have more problems in their mind. This is when the lyrics come in, “There must be something more, do you know what we’re fighting for?” this line shows the mindset of the adults. Having led lives that are longer, they wonder if there is any more meaning to life. Surely this isn’t just it. Money is essential, where is the love? Notice they don’t interact at all, are they fighting for only survival(money)? Or is life something more?

The lyrics follow by going, “Breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe out”. In this song, there are many repetititive lines similar to this. I feel that this is how those people in the MV move from day by day. They do not know what is important in their lives, but they have to keep going on. When they feel weak and want to give up, their minds tell them to keep going, just keep going, keep breathing, in, out, in out. This isn’t really the norm, as people usually think bigger, for example, I am having a party next week, not taking life a second at a time. It seems as though if they stop trying to tell themselves to take this small steps, they might give up and their lives might just extinguish away like a fire.

Notice the cleaning lady. She is alone in the house, she falls apart. She sits on the table and just stops to think about the past. Later on, she continues cleaning like a robot when other people are around. Are we afraid of judgement from others? In the song, a line goes, “I’ve fooled everyone, now what will I become”. This shows pressure on oneself to fit into the society is it not? This is then further supported by the girl who almost has sex due to pressure. The girl doesn’t want to obviously, but she is afraid of rejection by the guy afterwards. Do we change ourselves to be accepted? “I’m paying for my sins, and it’s gonna rain for years and years” played when they guy and girl entered the room. Did he(singer) refer to the regret one faces if he/she loses his/her virginity(or any other thing) out of pressure and curiosity? Repetition of “I have to start this over”. The need to re-do everything, to begin again.

The girl feels dirty? She also feels cornered at the same time. She looks up for a second in the MV, perhaps asking the Lord what she should do? “All these masks we wore” again supports how she pretends to be someone she isn’t just to be accepted.

Notice 3 guys sit in the same room, no communication at all.

At the climax of the songs, he sings with loudness, “I have to start this overrrr, ERRRR~” with the silhouette of his face. It actually looks like he was shouting. Shouting for someone to see him? Hmm.

Each one of the characters start singing the lyrics to the song. The cleaning lady who probably lost her son goes “There must be something more” maybe referring to something for her to live on. Then the lady on the bed goes “breathe in, breathe outX2”. This really relates because she really looks like a zombie liao lor. The cleaning lady proceeds to take out a photo of a child, and that’s actually the first sign of happiness in the MV when she smile this smile that showed real bliss, which foreboded a good ending. She has not let the past go, but this is what keeps her alive. What keeps her happy. The fact that the photo is always with her shows the importance of the boy.

The child is protected in the bed, between the parents, under the warm covers. Safe. The man then looks at/calls someone, and he laughs. More signs of happiness coming. The guy who wanted sex, then realises he shouldn’t force something on someone he truly loves. He dresses and calls her to come over and they play board game innocently like little childhood lovers.

The 3 guys in the room are no longer in silence, they happily place music they all enjoy, though they are different instruments, they are binded together with music. They enjoy everything.

The MV ended with the Singer alone, putting his guitar down. He was writing a story. He was trying to make a song. Then he got frustrated because he couldn’t do it easily. The crushed pieces of paper showed the mistakes he cannot undo. Then the stories all ended happily, hence he put the guitar down and walked away. His song and story ended. This is such a beautiful song.

Further supported by the lyrics as evidence.

“I lie awake again, my body’s feeling paralyzed” Supports numbness of being in a kind of society like ours.

“I can’t remember when I didn’t live through this disguise” Supports masks, pretence and judgement from others.

“I’m stuck here in this life I didn’t ask for” Suicide, supports breathe in breathe out, life is hard and we struggle everyday.

Hence, in summary, there are 3 main ideas in this song.

1. The invisibility of everyone,

2. How we pretend for acceptence because we are afraid of judgement and lastly,

3. the toughness of being a human being because we get so tired we get numb.

I narrated almost the whole story. Sigh, bad habit of mine. Hope I don't do it tomorrow for the test. Please Ariel ):

Alright, doubt any of you have read until here but if you have, thank you darlings.Probably be the lit students who read until here. Hope my analysis helps though it's kinda crappy :/

Goodluck for everyone who has tests tomorrow! :D
By the way, 4 hours to American SKINS, I AM SO SEXCITED LA :D
OKAY BYEBYE.