All Too Well Data Analysis

5. All Too Well

This lyric is a description about love journey the song writer with her ex boyfriend. The song writer fells all will be fine although have been broke relation with her boyfriend. It can be seen from the title of the song „All too well”. The writer found some kinds of deixis are used by the song writer. There are person deixis, spatial deixis, and temporal deixis. From the tabulated data above, it can be seen that the song writer uses first person deixis there are singular first person that is „I‟, „me‟ and „my‟, plural first person it is „we‟, and singular second person there are „you‟ and „your‟. Then the writer also finds spatial and temporal deixis. All of deictic expressions are used by the song writer expressed in the following. “I walked through the door with you” “Left my scarf there at your sister‟s house” “You tell me about your past thinking your future was me” “We‟re singing in a car getting lost Upstate” “And I know it‟s long gone, and that magic‟s not here no more” “Now you mail back my things” “Back before you lost the one real thing you‟ve ever known” From lyrics above, it can be seen there are some several person deictic words because the song tells us about love, feeling and relationship that happens between two people. The song writer uses first singular person „I‟ refers to the speaker who walked through the door with „you‟ indicates the second singular person and refers to the addressee who has meaning a man whom the song writer loves, then the deictic word „me‟ is as object pronoun and „my‟ is as possessive adjective from „I‟ who refers to the song writer herself, the word „your‟ is possessive adjective from „you‟. Next from lyrics above the word „we‟ refers to the plural first person, they are including between the speaker and the hearer. For spatial deixis in these lyrics, the writer finds 5 words, they are „door‟, „there‟, „upstate‟, „that‟, and „here‟. „Here‟ is spatial deixis locative adverb which indicate the relative location between the speaker and the hearer are close, while the deixis word „there‟ locative adverbs and „that‟ demonstrative adjective shows that the relative location between the speaker and the hearer are far. Last, kind of deixis are used by the song writer is temporal deixis. From the tabulated data above it can be seen that the song writer use deictic word „now‟, „before‟, and „future‟. The deictic word „now‟ refers to the time when the utterance are uttered by the song writer is present, the deictic word „before‟ is temporal expression show the time when the song writer want to the hearer back‟, and the deictic word „future‟ used by the song writer to shows the time when he think the song writer will be his marriage partner. Spatial and temporal deixis make people easily conclude that „you‟ and „I‟ are separated in two really different time and places. To know how the use of deixis affects the meaning of the whole lyrics, the writer try to omit the deictic expression in the lyrics in the following. “Walked through” “Left scarf at sister‟s house” “You tell about your past thinking your was me” “Singing in a car getting lost” “And know it‟s long gone, and magic‟s not no more” “Mail back things” “Back lost the one real thing ever known” From those lyrics, it can be seen if the song writer not uses the deictic expressions it will make confusion the song listener, and it will be result the different meaning for the song listener. It also make the message which want to be send by the song writer might not achieved by the song listener. They will be not understood what the song tell about. The use of deixis in song lyrics is to make the song listener easily to understand the meaning of song lyrics.

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