1960: Poem Analysis

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1960 ."Yesterday"
Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away.
Now it looks as though they're here to stay.
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Suddenly I'm not half the man I used to be.
There's a shadow hanging over me.
Oh, yesterday came suddenly.

Why she had to go, I don't know, she wouldn't say.
I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday.

Yesterday love was such an easy game to play.
Now I need a place to hide away.
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Why she had to go, I don't know, she wouldn't say.
I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday.

Yesterday love was such an easy game to play.
Now I need a place to hide away.
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Mm mm mm mm mm mm mm
This song is talking about the love that was yesterday, and how
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This song is really about memories of her and the past and how he wishes he could get the girl back. In the great Gatsby Gatsby loves Daisy, however he has to go to war and is gone for five years to come back to his beloved Daisy married. Gatsby tries to win her back but in the end he must be without Daisy. The theme that can be seen in this song is weather, when the guy in the song is cold he is sad and depressed, like hats you when it rained.

1980 “” Memories and past.

1990 "Gone Too Soon" Memories and past.

Like A Comet
Blazing 'Cross The Evening Sky
Gone Too Soon

Like A Rainbow
Fading In The Twinkling Of An Eye
Gone Too Soon

Shiny And
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The theme in this song is also weather.
The theme is shown when he says “like a sunset dying with the rising of the moon gone too soon” the sunset going down brings darkness, this song has that quote at the end of the song to portray what would happen next.

2000 "This Is The Thing"

I don't know if you notice anything different.
It's getting dark and it's getting cold and the nights are getting long
And I don't know if you even notice at all
That I'm long gone

And the things that keep us apart
Keep me alive
And the things that keep me alive
Keep me alone
This is the thing

I don't know if you notice anything missing
Like the leaves on the trees or my clothes all over the floor
And I don't know if you even notice at all
'Cause I was real quiet when I closed the door

And the things that keep us apart
Keep me alive
And the things that keep me alive
Keep me alone
This is the thing

And I don't know if you notice anything

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