The document analyzes the song "The Patient" and how it uses symbolism, imagery, idioms, repetition, and hyperbole to explore the struggles of waiting. The song describes a speaker who questions if they are being tested while waiting and feeling drained by the wait. Though the "vampire act is old", the speaker chooses to remain faithful and wait it out, hoping for rewards. The speaker would have left if they did not want to help those who are damaged and broken along their path. In the end, the speaker urges the need for patience and to keep reminding oneself of this.

1. By Daniel Barcus

3. The symbolism, imagery, idiom, repetition,
and hyperbole of the song work to
explain the questions and struggles that
come along with waiting.

4. The song starts with the speaker groaning and questioning if he
is being tested. He explains how there is a vampire that is
draining the his patience and vitality. He is still giving blood to
the vampire and keeping faith even though the “vampire act's a
little old". The speaker is going to "wait it out" and mentions that
he would have walked away from the path he is on if he knew
that there were no rewards from waiting. The speaker then
goes on to explain that if he had no desire to heal the
"damaged and broken" met along his path that he is on he
would have walked away from it. The speaker then urges to be
patient and that he must keep reminding himself of this.

6.  The Patient with lyrics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfCL2ewraqo
 Picture 1:
http://joequatronejr.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/alone-with-god.jpg
 Picture 2:
http://www.apuregeneration.com/blog/what-are-we-waiting-for/3763
 Picture 3:
http://algomamariner.blogspot.com/2011/04/auguste-rodins-thinker.html
 Picture 4: http://www.psdgraphics.com/file/red-at-symbol.jpg
 Picture 5:
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/707855main_20121120_135424_d7c2A.jp
 Picture 6: http://www.ezeedictionary.com/imagedict/i/idiom.jpg
 Picture 7:
http://exurbanpedestrian.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/captainhyperbol
e2.jpg
 Picture 8: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qT-F8Ku-
B6E/Ta19lQwxllI/AAAAAAAAAnc/7uvadGJe-uM/s1600/06_repetition.jpg

7.  The Patient with lyrics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfCL2ewraqo
 Picture 1:
http://joequatronejr.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/alone-with-god.jpg
 Picture 2:
http://www.apuregeneration.com/blog/what-are-we-waiting-for/3763
 Picture 3:
http://algomamariner.blogspot.com/2011/04/auguste-rodins-thinker.html
 Picture 4: http://www.psdgraphics.com/file/red-at-symbol.jpg
 Picture 5:
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/707855main_20121120_135424_d7c2A.jp
 Picture 6: http://www.ezeedictionary.com/imagedict/i/idiom.jpg
 Picture 7:
http://exurbanpedestrian.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/captainhyperbol
e2.jpg
 Picture 8: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qT-F8Ku-
B6E/Ta19lQwxllI/AAAAAAAAAnc/7uvadGJe-uM/s1600/06_repetition.jpg