Theme Portfolio entry #1

"Through Glass"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCLJgALOiXY
By Stone Sour

I'm looking at you through the glass       Imagery/Metaphor
Don't know how much time has passed
Oh, god it feels like forever   Hyperbole
But no one ever tells you
That forever feels like home  Simile
Sitting all alone inside your head   Metaphor

How do you feel? That is the question
But I forget you don't expect an easy answer
When something like a soul becomes initialized
And folded up like paper dolls and little notes  Simile
You can't expect a bit of hope

So while you're outside looking in  Imagery
Describing what you see
Remember what you're staring at is me

I'm looking at you through the glass       Imagery/Metaphor
Don't know how much time has passed
Oh, god it feels like forever   Hyperbole
But no one ever tells you
That forever feels like home  Simile
Sitting all alone inside your head   Metaphor

How much is real? So much to question
An epidemic of the mannequins  Metaphor
Contaminating everything
We thought came from the heart
It never did right from the start
Just listen to the noises
(Null and void instead of voices)

Before you tell yourself
It's just a different scene
Remember it's just different from what you've seen

I'm looking at you through the glass       Imagery/Metaphor
Don't know how much time has passed
And all I know is that it feels like forever   Hyperbole
But no one ever tells you
That forever feels like home  Simile
Sitting all alone inside your head   Metaphor

'Cause I'm looking at you through the glass       Imagery/Metaphor
Don't know how much time has passed
And all I know is that it feels like forever   Hyperbole
But no one ever tells you
That forever feels like home  Simile
Sitting all alone inside your head   Metaphor

And it's the stars
The stars
That shine for you       Personification
And it's the stars
The stars
That lie to you, yeah-ah
[x2 - on the album version]

I'm looking at you through the glass       Imagery/Metaphor
Don't know how much time has passed
Oh, god it feels like forever   Hyperbole
But no one ever tells you
That forever feels like home  Simile
Sitting all alone inside your head   Metaphor

I'm looking at you through the glass       Imagery/Metaphor
Don't know how much time has passed
And all I know is that it feels like forever   Hyperbole
But no one ever tells you
That forever feels like home  Simile
Sitting all alone inside your head   Metaphor

And it's the stars
The stars
That shine for you, yeah-ah
And it's the stars
The stars
That lie to you, yeah-ah

And it's the stars
The stars
That shine for you, yeah-ah        Personification
And it's the stars
The stars
That lie to you, yeah-ah, yeah

Oh when the stars
Oh oh when the stars that lie

               

  In the song “Through Glass” by Stone Sour, the speaker uses metaphor, simile, and hyperbole to convey the feelings of emotional detachment and separation that often accompany severe depression. The song opens with the metaphor “I’m looking at you through the glass,” which is meant to convey that the speaker feels detached from the people in his life. He feels as though nobody realizes or understands the way he is feeling, despite his desperate pleas for help. The speaker’s loved ones can only stand “on the outside looking in” as the speaker battles the darkness that has taken over his mind. The glass is meant to symbolize the speaker’s depression, which prevents him from communicating his feelings to those he loves. In the following lines, the speaker says that “it feels like forever,” which implies that he has been living with depression for a long time. In fact, the speaker has lived with depression for so long that “forever feels like home,” which is meant to convey that depression is all that the speaker has ever known. The speaker cannot remember a time when they did not suffer from his dark thoughts and emotions, and has become so used to the feeling of emptiness that it has begun to feel like home for the speaker. The speaker’s depression has left him feeling as though he is “sitting all alone inside [his] head.” This metaphor is meant to convey that the speaker feels like he is trapped within his own mind and cannot escape his dark thoughts and emotions. Those who suffer from depression often feel as though they are all alone, which is consistent with the ideas that the speaker is attempting to convey in this song. The speaker in “Through Glass” conveys the emotional detachment that those with depression often feel through the use of metaphor and simile throughout the song.