Claudia+S

CRASH SUM 41.



Crash is the song that I have chosen it belongs to a highly acclaimed album called Screaming Bloody Murder by a Canadian rock band Sum 41 from Ajax, Ontario. The band was formed in 1996 and currently consists of the members Deryck Whibley (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Tom Thacker (lead guitar, backing vocals), Jason McCaslin (bass guitar, backing vocals) and Steve Jocz (drums). The album was launched on March 29, 2011, it was a masterful rendition.
 * Good to see vocabularly covered in class recycled here. But albums are 'released', not 'launched'.

The main reason for seleting this song is the message the singer wants to transmit. This song is made up of 3 stanzas and the chorus that keeps repeating itself. The singer has decided to use repetition to emphasize the meaning of the song. More importantly the selection of the language makes it easy for the reader to follow the interpretation. This song is by far one of the most riveting songs I’ve ever heard. ** - this line is lost here on its own; make it part of an argument ** The singer has achieved his aim to transmit to the public throughout a series of long vowels and slow rhythm an atmosphere of depression. We can clearly see how the singer feels. Hopeless and dispirited. I really like his voice because it’s soft and sweet, the rhythm of the song is monoton** ous ** and it helps to portrait his situation.

From the start, the lyrics transmits us the pessimism of the song. Each line has it’s one message. All** this ** different phrases describe that the singer is in his **lasts** days, he has reached the end of his life, he transmits he’s fear towards the death and also explains that he doesn’t want to do die, and that it wasn’t supposed to happen. What makes the message more compelling to me is the way he presents the song, ** PUNCTUATION? ** he is telling all this song to his girlfriend, he tells her to be strong and live fully every moment because you don’t know what can happen to you. The first 4 verses describe his serious illness, he can barely move. He accepts that his time has arrived and that it’s time to say goodbye. Meanwhile, he tells his girlfriend that she’ll find a way to carry with her life. He advices her to live every day as if it was the last one. In the last verse from the second stanza he says: “ I think it’s time for me to pass”. Here, he is conveying to his illness and expresses he is nearly dying. The chorus reflects his worry about his circumstance** S **, he tells this wasn’t in his plans, but that he has to face the truth and move on. However, as we read on, we see how he portraits he’s despairing situation with a rhetorical question: “What do I have to do?”, he shows that he doesn’t know how to react and how to deal with this problem. Then he describes again that he’s nearly dying when he says: “As I take my last breath” meaning that he is going to live he’s last moment but he doesn’t want to waste his time left crying. To conclude, I think that this song is a clear example of life because it shows daily situations that are happening around us. I use to hear this song when I’m sad because I’ve had a bad day, and this song makes me realize that worse things can be happening, there are people with real problems with only few days left of life. In my opinion, this song wants to transmit that the most important thing is to live every moment and every day compleately because you never know when it will be your last one and you don’t have to waste your time feeling unhappy about little problems.

__ LYRICS. __

Hold me now cause I couldn't even if I tried It's over now I guess it really is my time I don't want to go but it's time I gotta say goodbye So hold me now cause this will be our last time

I'm slowing down and I don't think that I can fight I know somehow you'll find a way to live your life Remember just to live everyday like it's your last And hold me now cause I think it's time for me to pass

I don't wanna die, I don't know why This kind of fate was meant for me You gotta be strong, gotta move on  It's not how it was supposed to be

What you wanna say? It was never supposed to end up this way What do I have to do? When supposed to grow old with you

But that ain't gonna happen No that ain't gonna happen

Hold me now cause the time I've got running now No tears allowed even though we've become without I just wanna feel your head lying on my chest So hold me now as I take my last breath

I don't wanna die, I don't know why This kind of fate was meant for me You gotta be strong, gotta move on  It's not how it was supposed to be

What you wanna say? It was never supposed to end up this way What do I have to do? When supposed to grow old with you

But that ain't gonna happen No that ain't gonna happen

[|Crash, sum 41, SONG]

CLAUDIA SAMSÓ.