The song Cyclone by Sticky fingers is about love and a relationship breaking up. This is seen in in the figurative language devices and imagery throughout the song. In lines 2 and 3 the lyrics describe the loving relationship, “And a temple lost like crying tears in rain/No love is lost or no sweet wisdom gained”.The simile “temple lost like crying tears in rain” compares a temple to crying tears in the rain. When you cry in the rain your tears are unnoticable, saying the left unnoticeably A temple can be used to refer to a body like the other person in the relationship, that they are now gone. Tears carry a negative connotation along with rain because when it rains it is dark and darkness can be related to depression along with tears. And
