Lyrics wasted carrie underwood3/28/2023 So she took another step and said, “I see the way out – She said sometimes love slips away, and you just can’t get it back – įor one split second she almost turned around, īut that would be like pouring rain drops – back into a cloud. One tear hit the hard wood – it fell like broken glass. Standing at the back door, she tried to make it fast. Green: It was a great co-write … it really felt like we all lyrically and melodically contributed. I was just really into the moment, into the characters, when we were writing. Lindsey: In my mind, they were always separate. I love that about songs, that different people can take different things from them. But people have taken it as both people related. Verges: In my mind, they didn’t know each other at all they were separate stories. Maybe these two characters are completely separate, and they’re just tied together in a song. But in my mind, it was open as to whether they knew each other or didn’t know each other. Green: There’s a story where these two people could be connected - the woman in the first verse and the guy in the second verse. We ultimately decided to change gears and come over to a new story for the second verse. We wrote the first verse, then tried to decide whether to write the whole song about her story or go on to a new story. Hillary just started singing that first line. I was just trying to find something that felt good. I wasn’t thinking of anything particular, lyrically. Troy Verges: Marv and I were just jamming around a little bit. Then Marv said that line, “Pouring teardrops back into a cloud,” I just freaked out over that line. Troy has these throw rugs on top of hardwood floors at his house, and I was actually seeing glass shatter, in my head. When I said it, I was literally seeing a tear hit the floor. Hillary Lindsey: I do remember having a clear visual of it though. And Hillary sang that whole first line: “Standing at the back door, she tried to make it fast, one tear hit the hardwood …” Troy started playing a few of those verse chords and started to do the groove of the song. But I also liked the idea of using wasted with time … wasting too much of your life. I liked the different meanings of wasted … like, obviously, drinking too much alcohol. In conclusion, Underwood’s educational use of literary devices and mastery vocals in her song Wasted is only a few of the main reasons why her songs are hitting the top billboard records all over the nation.Marv Green: Sometimes a song starts with a melody, sometimes with an emotion … but this song really just started with throwing out that title, “Wasted.” (SC Tip: keep interesting words in your hook book) The song title, Wasted, is also a use of ambiguity because it can mean that the singer does not want to waste their life, and it could also be referring to the drunken man who spend most of his life wasted and no longer wanted to waste his life being drunk. “He looked in the mirror and his eyes were clear for the first time in a while” alludes to the fact that the man no longer drinks and he is sober for the first time in a long time. One can vividly picture this drunken man tumbling to the sink and finally ending his drunken habits. For example, “so he stumbles to the sink and pours it down the drain”. Imagery is briefly apparent when Underwood sings about the drunk, loved one. The simile is basically proving that it would be pointless or improbable to go back. Another simile appears in the second stanza: “For one split second she almost turned around, but that would be like pouring rain drops back into a cloud”. The simile also symbolizes the pain and heartbreak the narrator is feeling. Underwood compares a tear drop falling from one’s face to a glass falling and breaking on the floor. One example is in the first stanza: “one tear hit the hard wood, it fell like broken glass”. Similes, a comparison of two things using the words like or as, are also portrayed in Wasted. Instead of saying the endings and prefixes Underwood illustrates her southern drawl by changing the way the words are pronounced. Such as “wanna’, gotta, gonna’, cause’, ain’t, and drivin’”. A southern, twangy diction is also evident with the way words are sung. For instance, “she said sometimes love slips away… for one split second… so she took another step and said” all has an alliteration with the letter ‘s’. Some literary and poetic devices Carrie Underwood incorporates into her song Wasted include similes, alliteration, diction, imagery, allusion, and ambiguity.Īlliteration, several words with the reoccurring same consonants, is present multiple times throughout this song. Underwood’s song, Wasted, hit number one on the Billboard Hot Country Songs in April 2007, and was a track on the fastest selling album debut in Nielsen Sound Scan history. Carrie Underwood is an extremely talented artist who enhances her compositions by applying literary and poetic devices into her pieces.
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