4. THE ANALYSIS OF NON- LITERAL MEANING IN SELECTED
SONG LYRICS OF THE CORRS
4. 1. The Data 4.1.1. Personification
1. My imagination just stole me away A15
2. So can’t you see I’m tortured, oh can’t you hear my pain C11
3. My heart aches with a hunger D4
4. Sharing summer kisses and city sounds E3
5. Wondering why my mind plays tricks E17
6. We are chasing the moon G5
7. Where our dreams collide J6
8. When the daylight takes you K10
9. It reaches through my skin L7
10. My sleeping cry L39
11. Open your heart, baby leave with me, don’t be afraid N17
4.1.2. Hyperbole
1. I live my dreams but it’s not all they say A4
2. Then I’ll give… all the love in the world A10
3. Just to get you through the loneliest days A12
4. And the nights grow colder A26
5. Go on, go on, leave me breathless B1
6. The daylight’s fading slowly B3
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7. Don’t want you for the weekend, don’t want you for a day C2
8. It’s indefinable, it’s magical, illogical C8
9. I’ll be your summer rain C13
10. It can take you places, like never before C24
11. With a full glass and an empty heart E5
12. But you are in my head, swimming forever in my head E7
13. Tangled in my dreams, swimming forever… E8
14. Caught up in a distant dream I try E14
15. I would runaway with you F6
16. On these lazy summer days G17
17. You’ve been keeping me warm H6
18. In coffee city, we borrowed heaven H9
19. Do you ever think you’re someone else inside, when no one
understands you are I3
20. And wanna disappear inside a dream but never wanna wake up
I4
21. Leave, love you wave goodbye J14
22. When loving you is my finest hour J21
23. Leaving you, the hardest day of my life J22
24. I feel empty inside J27
25. I’m falling for you everyday K5
26. I’, aching for you only I’ll never tire K17
27. Oh and when life defies you K26
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28. You’ll never go astray K28
29. Fly with me, loose reality K30
4.1.3. Synecdohe
1. Wondering, waiting for the day to fade away K1
2. You’ll find that you can’t stand to be away K24
3. I love my love and well he knows M5
4. Its out of our hands, we can’t stop what we had begun P12
4.1.4. Simile 1. Just like I need you the way I see you C5
2. And I want you to see me, like no one before C6 3. My faith in love is like blood, it flows in everyone N12
4. Some say the heart is just like a wheel O1 4.1.5. Metaphor