This all-acoustic affair continues for the first half minute, which intensifies the first lyrics of the song, “Hello there”. Then a monotone male voice of Mark Hoppus cuts in “the angel from my nightmare,” implying sadness or a haunting memory of someone. Opening up with these lyrics are so powerful because so many people, of both genders, can relate to losing hope in something and then having an “angel” come into your life to save you. When you meet someone like this, it is all about being in the right place, at the right time, with the right people. Additionally, the popularity of the lyrics “we can live like Jack and Sally if we want, where you can always find me and we'll have Halloween on Christmas,” ("I Miss You” Web). introduces and compares the love that they share to the strange forgotten love of the characters Jack Skellington and Sally from Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas. Personally, I believed that this metaphor was very precarious because some might not fully grasp the concept and fully understand why it was used. This hints the way they want and plan to live out their lives in the future and “wishing it would never end”. From an identity standpoint, music can help you find your feelings and how you feel about your relationship to others. With “I Miss You”, this can take the listener back in time to a past memory of a romantic relationship and bring up old
This all-acoustic affair continues for the first half minute, which intensifies the first lyrics of the song, “Hello there”. Then a monotone male voice of Mark Hoppus cuts in “the angel from my nightmare,” implying sadness or a haunting memory of someone. Opening up with these lyrics are so powerful because so many people, of both genders, can relate to losing hope in something and then having an “angel” come into your life to save you. When you meet someone like this, it is all about being in the right place, at the right time, with the right people. Additionally, the popularity of the lyrics “we can live like Jack and Sally if we want, where you can always find me and we'll have Halloween on Christmas,” ("I Miss You” Web). introduces and compares the love that they share to the strange forgotten love of the characters Jack Skellington and Sally from Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas. Personally, I believed that this metaphor was very precarious because some might not fully grasp the concept and fully understand why it was used. This hints the way they want and plan to live out their lives in the future and “wishing it would never end”. From an identity standpoint, music can help you find your feelings and how you feel about your relationship to others. With “I Miss You”, this can take the listener back in time to a past memory of a romantic relationship and bring up old