The document provides a lyrical analysis of the song "Skinny Love" through analyzing individual lines and sections. Key points analyzed include the use of repetition of the word "my" to emphasize the singer's emotions, imperative sentences that command the listener, and rhetorical questions posed to the audience. Imagery of negativity, hurt, and break ups is explored through examination of the lyrics and vocabulary. The analysis considers themes of love, relationships, pain, and suicidal thoughts portrayed in the song.

1. Lyrical Analysis

2. The little love and happiness she has
needs to last need a little longer. The
use of the adjective ‘Skinny’ shows
how its tiny what she actually wants.
Come on skinny love just last the year,
Pour a little salt we were never here,
My my my, my my my, my-my my-my...
Staring at the sink of blood and crushed veneer.
The use of the imperative
sentence in the song shows
how she’s being commanding.
Meaning that through this
lyrical line she doesn’t want
anyone to know that they were
never there meaning perhaps
she doesn’t want to be known
but does because she wants
love
The use of the
determiner ‘my’
which is uttered 10
times its repeated
because its needed
to be to emphasized
how its about hers.

3. Tell my love to wreck it all,
Cut out all the ropes and let me fall,
My my my, my my my, my-my my-my...
Right in the moment this order's tall
The use of the next line is
another imperative sentence
which is commanding us an
audience to do something
negative. The use of the
concrete noun ‘cut’ is used
harshly to demonstrate what she
wants us to do. Then the use of
the dynamic verb ‘Fall’ shows
how that’s what she feels like
she’s doing.
The use of the
determiner ‘My’ is
repeated again to
show how its
important for the
singer that its her
love…
Talking to an indirect to love,
showing she is unable to talk to
love because she is clearly
hurting. As well as the adjective
‘Wreck’ shows the emotions of
negativity.
Meaning that its
instant and
everything is
unplanned and the
use of the adjective
tall shows how it’s a
large thing shes over-coming
.

4. And I told you to be patient,
And I told you to be fine,
And I told you to be balanced,
And I told you to be kind,
And in the morning I'll be with you,
But it will be a different kind,
'Cause I'll be holding all the tickets,
And you'll be owning all the fines.
This is
representation
of what she did
to herself I
believe.
Conations of
suicidal
thought s

5. Come on skinny love, what happened here?
Suckle on the hope in light brassieres,
My my my, my my my, my-my my-my...
Sullen load is full, so slow on the split.
First line of
the actual
song-linking
Rhetorical
question
Hope-connotes
does she
want
hope?
Repeat from the
first verse
Brassieres=Bras
Equal sex denotations?

6. And I told you to be patient,
And I told you to be fine,
And I told you to be balanced,
And I told you to be kind,
And now all your love is wasted,
Then who the hell was I?
'Cause now I'm breaking at the britches,
And at the end of all your lines.
Repeated to
establish its
point
wasted:
gone, and it
was used
and that the
whole thing
was useless
Another rhetorical question
Breaking:
Falling
apart
Meaning at the end of this who
will be left.

7. All are rhetorical questions.
The question feels aimed
at the audience with the
2nd person pronoun ‘you;
Who will love you?
Who will fight?
And who will fall far behind?
Conations of violence but
also romance within
couples.
The use of the verb ‘fall’
shows the theme of break
ups.

8. Come on skinny love,
My my my, my my my, my-my my-my...
My my my, my my my, my-my my-my.
Both these lyrics
have been repeated
already throughout
the song