Also the song has an appropriate dark feeling, which displays the sadness and anger a kidnapping can cause. In lines 1-4, a mother harshly finds out her son or daughter has been kidnapped after she calls for breakfast. Glass is everywhere from a broken window and she knows what has happened to her child. Lines 5-10 show anger towards the kidnapper. The mother says she is going to find the kidnapper and he will get the justice he deserves, and she is willing to do anything to see that he does. She also asks the kidnapper, “Don’t you know it’s violation?” as if she believes that the kidnapper feels his crime is “normal” behavior (see figure 3). “Never gonna let you take my world from me”, line 12, lets the kidnapper know that the mother is determined to get her child back unharmed. Any mother who has their child taken away from them can relate to what this woman is feeling in this …show more content…
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