Like many lyrics in pop-culture songs, this song contains
figurative language, but much of it is hard to spot because phrases are common enough
that we overlook them as figures of speech.
Remember that
figurative language or figures of speech (same
thing) include similes, metaphors, and personification, which is a specific kind of
metaphor. The following lines contain metaphors:
I gave my heart to you
-
Put
aside my smile for you
If you
imagine this literally, you can see how it is a metaphor. The speaker did not
physically hand over her heart or physically put away her
smile.
Later, the use of "paralyze" should have caught your
attention in this line:
Paralyze my growth for
you
Anytime an author uses
diction (word choice) that seems out of place in context
(frequently done in song lyrics), you can almost be certain figurative language is
used. Literally, paralyze is a term that means "to make unable to move or act," but it
is typically associated with a medical condition. Applied figuratively, the comparison
here is between the growth of a relationship and the growth of a
body.
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