Sell My Clothes Im Off To Heaven

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“Sell My Clothes, I’m Off to Heaven” "If this sky's going to eat us, then I'd like to be digested into a million pieces with you" (39-40). Love is by far, the most confusing and powerful emotion. Saves the Day, a punk band based in New Jersey, captures the complexity of love in many of its songs converging aggressive, yet emotional lyrics with upbeat tempo and powerful instrumentation. Saves the Day's "Sell My Old Clothes, I'm Off to Heaven" embodies the abstract nature of love in a way that could possibly relate to some of the band members' personal experiences. They wrote this song to express their feelings of a situation in which a guy has a deep love for a girl who does not reciprocate his love for her. The song explores the guy's feelings for the girl and his quest to understand why the girl does not want to be with him. Saves the Day utilizes various elements in "Sell My Old Clothes, I'm Off to Heaven," which collaborate to enhance the effect of the song: the purpose and theme compose the ideas in the lyrics, the symbolism creates a more entertaining and dramatic effect, and the unique physical aspects of the song further increases its effectiveness on the listener. The purpose and theme make up the ideas represented in the lyrics of "Sell My Old Clothes, I'm Off to Heaven." Saves the Day wrote this song either to express their view of the situation or more likely as an actual message to a girl. The circumstances and details used in the song suggest that the situation did occur with one of the band members and he wrote about it in the form of a message to the girl he feels love for. The speaker of the song expresses deep passion for the girl, yet he shows hate, envy and confusion as well. Saves the Day uses the lyrics to convey the love that the speaker shows for the girl, his misunderstanding of her, how she drives him crazy, and what he would do to win

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