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bring, is inspired by their awareness of their social political circumstances. Figure of an authority are usually the object to be alluded in their lyrics. In expressing their
idea, previously the writer has found at least four different kinds of irony. They are irony of situation, satire, sarcasm, and verbal irony. They will help the writer to
comprehend further the lyric by elaborating their meaning. The persona used in this lyric is “I”. The writer assumes that the persona “I” is
an American citizen who is very anxious of his every national problem since economic issue and even election has been uttered in this lyric.
Several kinds of irony contained in God Save The USA as means for Pennywise to contribute sense of criticizing and even alluding to the action of the
government. apparently can be seen in table II above. Further the meaning of irony contained in God Save The USA will be elaborated below to know further the way
irony led to provoke listeners to not give their vote to Bush in the election. They are:
a. God you must be kidding me thought this was supposed to be
The home of the brave and the free for you and me But now theres something wrong - shits been going on too long.
Irony of situation occurs here means the disappointed feeling of the speaker since the big country like America as the place they live where
freedom and human right are sounded doing violation that makes everything goes on wrong.
b. Its never gonna change, theres no way i say.
Whats the CIA and the NRA? Theyre all the same - just the names are changed.
Satire in these lines is telling what the speaker actually means with the sense of allusion to the government for the step they’ve taken. The
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speaker feels disappointed of the work of CIA and NRA since CIA officially had suspected Iraq in having dreadful weapon, which is later,
unproven after that country was invaded massively by the commandment of head of state US.
It is a fact that in the latter half of 2002, Central Intelligence Agency
reports requested by the administration contained conflicting assertions
on whether Saddam Hussein was intent on reconstituting nuclear weapons programs, had not properly accounted for Iraqi
biological and
chemical weapons , and that some Iraqi missiles had a range greater than
allowed by the UN sanctions”
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. By the recommendation of such authorized institution, the head of the state commanded to invade Iraq-an
independent country. This policy bore the controversy around the world since in the end it is not proven for Iraq to have such weapon. The fact
that it is obviously unproven gives bad reputation to those institutions. Based on the historical background of the making of this album, Iraq
war is also the inspiring issue that was against seriously by pennywise
.
c. Fuck - theres no excuse - any way you lose
.
Sarcasm found here in the word fuck. The bitterness found in the word fuck in this line is intended to wound the feeling of the addressee
who is in this case is the President. Sarcasm here means the expression of anger of an American citizen toward the policy of the President. The
band then claims no excuse for the President; even more they state that
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the President is lost for the problem that cannot be solved by neither CIA nor NRA in the previous line under his authority.
d. Its all a joke in the good old USA
