"I Grieve" by Peter Gabriel
Release Date: March 31, 2008
I chose "I Grieve" by Peter Gabriel because I enjoy the message the lyrics depict in the listener's imagination. If you have experienced grief, you can appreciate the message that is portrayed. The song is about someone who has suddenly lost a loved one. The emotions, from the loss, are too much to handle for the songwriter. He states that it is too hard to move on but there are people who state life carries on. You feel that the singer is actually progressing through certain stages of grief while singing the song. In the second half of the song the singer begins explaining how life carries on in the world all around him. Finally, the last verse states,
"Did I dream this belief, Or did I believe this dream, Now I can find relief, I grieve."It feels as though he is describing grief through a sad tone in the beginning of the song. Through the middle section his tone changes to one of hope and perseverance. Lastly, the tone saddens once again. The final words are, "I grieve." The emotions the songwriter is feeling seem to be coming in waves of sadness, hope, perseverance, then sadness once again.
The songwriter uses the subject of death in the song and the theme is grief. It portrays his struggle with grief and how it is overcome. The message of the poem/lyrics is didactic. The songwriter is trying to impart knowledge of life continuing on for those left behind. The songwriter uses metaphors to describe the loss by stating,
"The news that truly shocks is the empty empty page, While the final rattle rock its empty empty cage, and I cant handle this."An empty page cannot shock and a rattle cannot rock its own empty cage. The songwriter is referencing the human soul leaving a body behind. The symbols he uses to describe life moving on range from dogs, cats, rot, rust, ashes, and dust. The songwriter is stating through symbolism that life continues throughout the good and bad left behind. Each culture experiences grief. Overcoming it is a task that is hard for some people. This song describes the natural sadness experienced with death and is motivational towards overcoming grief.
The song, from beginning to end, explains how grief affects a person and how life will carry on afterwards. We all will experience death and loss in life but life goes on day after day.
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