These Days

Tiffers the Imposter · **Tiffers the Imposter**

Hey guys i had to write a paper for english class it was a critism for a poem or song. So i did these days tell me what ya think and if you think i protrayed the song right:

Yeah, life throws you curves
But you learned to swerve
Me I swung and I missed
And the next thing ya know
I’m reminiscing’ dreaming old dreams
Wishing old wishes
Like you would be back again

The above passage is from These Days written by Jeffery Steele. In this song a man and woman have broken up. Later on in their lives they bump into each other at an airport. “And those planes, they don’t wait”, this shows that they were in an airport and his ex-girlfriend was traveling. The man begins to have flash backs on how things use to be. The time period is unmentioned so it can appeal to any one at any time. They have a conversation and the man tells his ex-girlfriend that he has been wishing to have her back and have his life they way it use to be. He also tells her that he knows what she has been up to because their old friends have informed him. “Some one told me after college/ You ran off to Vegas/ You married a rodeo cowboy/ Wow, that ain‘t the girl I knew”, he is telling her what he knows about her life after she left him and that it did not sound like

her at all. They talk for so long that this woman almost misses her flight. “But if you ever come back around/ To this sleepy old town/ Promise you’ll stop in”, when he says this he is letting her know that even though she has to go she wants her to promise if she ever comes around that she will see him again. He tells her that no matter what he will still be missing her. “Punch the clock/ Head for home/ Check the phone, just in case/ Go to bed/ Dream of you/ That’s what I’m doing these days”, in this he is telling her how desperate he was for her to come back around and stay with him. He wants her to know he still loves her and he regrets ever leaving her. The things he loved all shattered once he could not have her. All this brings to mind a wonderful mental picture.
The five senses enable people to see, touch, taste, smell, and hear the world around them. People interpret things such as poems and songs differently. When this song is listened to the greatest mental picture comes to mind. You can see how he misses her and how much he needs her, “Yeah, it’s good to see you too”. You can hear the regret in his voice, in his words, “ Like you would be back again”. You can taste the bitterness he has when he realizes she has moved on. Nothing in the world looked as beautiful to him as she did, visualizing her beauty compels to the touch when he says, “ Hey Baby, is that you?/ Wow, your hair got so long/ Yeah, yeah, I love it, I really do”. The flames of his yearning heart give off the taint smell of burnt out and forgotten love when he compels to tell her, “I put on the old song we danced to and then”. All of this supports the main tone.
The Tone of this endearing song is hope and regret. Three literary terms that support this tone are assonance, refrain, and rhyme. A man is regretting deep fully of his lose at love and hopes that when his true love finds out that he misses her she will come

running back to him, but she seems to already has moved on and does not love him any more. The author repeats, “ I wake up in tear drops/ They fall down like rain/ I put on that old song we danced to and then/ I head off to my job/ Guess not much has changed”, to show how much this lost love is killing him which also is a representative of the literary term refrain. Assonance is shown in this song by the lyrics, “ Drivin’ downtown, top down/ Making the rounds”. When that is said the man is telling his ex-girlfriend how he misses the time they spent together just riding around. The rhyming in these lyrics consist of, “Hey girl, you’re late/ And those planes, they don’t wait/ But if you ever come back around/ to this sleepy old town/ Promise me you’ll stop in/ To see an old friend”. That is when he tries to tell her lightly that he wants to see her again by saying if she ever comes back around that she had to promise to see him again. The tone of this song is closely related to the theme.
The theme for this song is wishing for the old days when everything seemed perfect. This narrator is regretting leaving a pass love and yearns for her back. In his eyes they were so much in love nothing could come between them, but obviously some thing did. In his heart he knows he will never have her back, but he can not accept that in his head. He is still sorting through his life and how he can possible move on with this regret hanging over his head, this quote supports this, “ Me I’ve been a few places/ Mostly here and there once or twice/ Still sortin’ out life, but I’m doing alright”. When she has to go it is heart breaking to understand how he is disappointed in how the time flew by for himself, probably not so much for his ex-girlfriend. This song is an amazing forth teller of regretting letting go of an endearing love, and a yearning for what was once done.

These Days is a brilliant song showing a yearning for something some one can not have. It applies to anyone at any time, fore it has an indefinite time. Any one would be touched by this man being torn apart by an unforgettable love. It seems like she has not even thought of him, but maybe that is just one interpretation. These lyrics tell a beautiful story of love transforming a person into thinking he was meant for one person, but by letting her go he has deep regret in his heart. How his habits changed to one who yearns for the past is described beautifully. Nothing could be more angelic then how this man shows a need for this kind of love in his life. These story telling and movie making lyrics could not be more magnificent.
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Garys lil girl · **Garys lil girl**

wow that was great...you prortrayed the song right in my opinion
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JoeDonsHazelEyedGoddess · **JoeDonsHazelEyedGoddess**

That's a perfect interpretaion!!! Good Job! Your teacher better give you an A.

I only found two mistakes; in the third paragraph, add a 'd' to tainte, and in the last paragraph, change 'some one' to one word.