Song Analysis 1: The Enemy

Displaying the friendship of two humans in "The Enemy" , Andrew Belle utilizes soft alliteration, tenderness simile, and a trace of irony to depict the challenge of truth without being "misunderstood."

                Andrew Belle applies soft alliteration to the lyrics of his song to represent the emphasis in certain situations. Andrew wants to show his listeners the challenge through words when talking to a friend about what he has experienced or experiencing.  Listening to the song, I can start to feel that he chose a different life style dealing with drugs and champagne and doesn’t want his friend to join him. He wants to explain himself to his friend but he is “tongue tied.” He doesn’t know how to explain himself and he is scared that if he does, she will get the wrong impression. Andrew chooses the words “tongue tied” to show how the conversation between the two people is such a challenge for he is speechless and his words are locked.

                Throughout the song, Andrew also displays tenderness simile to feel the connection between the two people with compassion. Through what feels like a moment of conversation between the two people, his “heart gets lost like a message” feeling like she won’t understand the way he wants her to. As the words move from place to place, they start to leave meaning and leave purpose. He can’t leave the lifestyle he is in, yet he doesn’t want her to follow where his heart is. He can’t explain where he is, but he doesn’t want to show her because the message could be mistaken. His heart wasn’t very comforting while her “heart was warm like a brother’s should.”  He feels as though he has made the wrong choice and she had followed him without warning. He didn’t warn her because he was afraid of what words would come out and what she would do with them. She took it in a different way and shouldn’t have because she was so loved and felt like family to him.

                Finally, Andrew demonstrates his honesty through irony. He tells his friend about the lifestyle he chose but tells it to her in a way she won’t mirror it. He tells her almost as if he “held a banner/but its upside down.”  He doesn’t want to be misunderstood when he exposes his truth. He wants her to take the message he has declared but take it almost as though he never said it.

In “The Enemy”, Andrew Belle displays his message of obtaining drugs and alcohol to a girl without misinterpreting it with alliteration, simile, and irony.