Analysis Blog #2

Almost everyone listens to music whether we know it or not. We might have music in our car, home, I-pod, or on the way to school, or even playing in stores. The kinds of music we like listening to when we are bored, studying, or just to chill, reflects our mood at that time. Rascal Flatts writes mostly country music, but has a little of rock in it. He wrote the song, “Life is a Highway”, from the move Car, but the song I am analyzing is not as popular called “What Hurts The Most”.

In this song they talk from a girls point of view and how much it hurts to lose someone in your life so much and not being able to express what you wanted to when he was alive. Also, in the lyric say that the girl in the song can’t deal with seeing all their friends, living day by day but the thing that hurts and bothers her is not being able to say everything from her heart to him. After interpreting this song I understood that the girl feels very sad when the guy she loved passed away because she never had the chance to tell him how much she loved him. In the lyrics “What hurts the most” the chorus is the following:

‘What hurts the most

Was being so close
And having so much to say
And watching you walk away

And never knowing
What could have been

And not seeing that loving you,

Is what I was trying to do.’

(Rascal Flatts)

These lyrics indicate that this girl had so much to say to the one she loves so dearly but now she can’t and it’s killing her inside. All she can do is think about the future, how it would have been, but now she can only wonder and can’t do anything. She is also saying how much it hurts seeing him walk away for the last time from her life forever and not being able to do anything because she didn’t know that he’d be lost.

Another line from the lyrics

‘Getting up, getting dressed, livin' with this regret
But I know if I could do it over
I would trade give away all the words that I saved in my heart
That I left unspoken’

(Rascal Flatts)

From these lines we can say that she regret not saying, what she felt about this boy, and if she could get one more chance with him, she would express what she left unspoken in her heart to him.

This song is sad with lots of emotions going on, but still has a little rock to add to the country sadness sound. Rascal Flatts made certain words from his lyrics longer and louder, to show how much it really hurts, to get the anger and the pain out from heart to words. This song will be have an audience of whomever has lost someone, who they can relate to there personal life. In the song the girl had to pretty much deal with everything even though it hurts, but the thing that really hurts her is not saying what she felt about him in her heart. So the songs main point is that if you want to save pain in the future, don’t wait to tell the person you love how much you care, because you never know if you’ll get that chance tomorrow.

Work cited

Me and my gang. “What Hurts The Most”, perf. Rascal Flatts. Released 2006.

Rascal Flatts. “What Hurts The Most” Azlyrics.com. 2006. 6 Feb. 2007

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/rascalflatts/whathurtsthemost.html