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By, Jeremia Sihar Joshua Siahaan REG.NO.142202058

UNIVERSITY OF SUMATERA UTARA FACULTY OF CULTURAL STUDIES DIPLOMA III ENGLISH STUDY PROGRAM MEDAN 2017

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UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA ABSTRACT

The title of this paper is “An Interpretation of Meaning in Muse’s Black Holes & Revelations”. This study describes about an interpretation of meaning of six songs (Take a Bow, Starlight, Invincible, Knights of Cydonia, Map of the Problematique, and City of Delusion) in the Black Holes & Revelations, a studio album by Muse, an English Rock Band. To overcome the problem in finding the meaning, the writer uses stylistic method. The purpose of this paper is finding the meaning and concluding the figure of speech that is used. There are some language style has been found on this album such as metaphor, personification, symbol, hyperbole, irony and simile. During the process of writing this paper, the writer uses library method with collecting books that related to the topic as the references and also browsing from several sources from the internet. In the first chapter the writer describes the background, problem of study, scope of study, purpose and method of study. Second chapter contains about the description of song lyric, poetry, language style and stylistic approach. Chapter three contains about the description of meaning and language style from each song. The last chapter contains about the conclusion and suggestion of the paper.

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UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA ACKNOWLEDGMENT

First of all, I would like to thank to Jesus Christ for His blessing and guidance during the process of completing this paper to finish my study in

Diploma III English Study Program, Faculty of Cultural Studies University of

Sumatera Utara

My special gratitude is to my parents, Ir. T. Siahaan and Clara Magdalena

Pardede for always loving me, my beloved brother and sisters, Joseph, Vani,

Conni, Cory and all my relatives who has given me their support, advice and prayer, so that I could accomplish my study on time.

My sincere thanks are expressed to my supervisor Drs. Parlindungan

Purba, M.Hum. who has spent his precious time to provide me with guidance and suggestions during the process of writing this paper.

I also thank to the Head of Diploma-III English Program, Dra. Swesana

Mardia Lubis, M.Hum., the Dean of Faculty of Cultural Studies University of

Sumatera Utara, Dr. Budi Agustono, M.S. I also would like to express my sincere gratitude to all my lecturers for their valuable knowledge, guidance, and advice during my period of study.

Then I want to thank to all of my best friends in English Diploma especially for Perjolas a.k.a my PES mates, Fikram, Hiskia, Pandi, Renja, Dwi and Maruli, thank you for all the consideration. Thanks you for all the assitance during my study. My Martabak mates, Pika, Yedit and Pares, I will never forget your craziness, guys, you da real mvp, thank you so much for having me. Then

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA Martha, my guitar tutor, thank you. Yudha, Andreas, Bagus, and others eight friends who had the same ‘problem’ with me in finishing up this paper. And I would like to thank to all the members of SOLIDAS, whose name I cannot mention one by one.

Lastly I want to thank my fellas since high school, my futsal mates, my very best friends in Aceng, especially for Miljam, Ical, Rean and Rizki thanks for all the nobars, wifi-hunter, burn burn, mama rere (manis manja renang sore), everything, thank your very much.

Finally, as the writer I would like to admit that this paper may be still far from being perfect, therefore, I open my hands to constructive criticism and suggestions.

Medan, August 1st 2017

The writer

JEREMIA JOSHUA

REG. NO: 142202058

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA Table of Contents

1. INTRODUCTION...... 1 1.1.Background of the Study...... 1 1.2.Problems of the Study...... 6 1.3.Scope of the Study...... 6 1.4.Purpose of the Study...... 7 1.5.Reason for Choosing the Topic...... 7 1.6.Method of The Study...... 8

2. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE...... 9 2.1.Song Lyric and Poetry...... 9 2.2.Language Style...... 10 2.3.Stylistic Approach...... 12

3. THE DESCRIPTION...... 14

4. CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION...... 26 4.1.Conclusion...... 26 4.2.Suggestion...... 26

BIBLIOGRAPHY...... 27

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA 1. INTRODUCTION

1.1. Background of the Study

The title of this study is An Interpretation of Meaning in Muse’s Black

Holes and Revelations. Black Holes and Revelations is a music album by Muse, an English rock band from Teignmouth, Devon, England. This is their fourth studio album. This album was released on July 3, 2006 in the United Kingdom.

This study is interpreting six song’s meanings from this album, those are Take a

Bow, Starlight, Invincible, Knights of Cydonia, Map of the Problematique, and

City of Delusion. In finding meaning of these songs writer used stylistics approach, the study of figure of speech (language style).

Interpretation maybe is a rare topic for most of people. In daily life, this word is commonly found in an article (opinion) on the newspaper or science magazine such as interpretation of data, interpretation of history, interpretation of law, interpretation of science theory, interpretation of literary work and many more. Particularly, for more specific, an interpretation is mostly written in the science journal.

Definition of interpretation for English Language Learners by Merriem-

Webster (interpretation) is the act or result of explaining or interpreting something is the way something is explained or understood. It is a particular way of performing something. The way writer sees it, he considers that interpretation is

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA theoretical opinion, explanation of meaning and symbol, and understanding of an object which is created and earned by a deep thought. There are a lot of objects can be interpreted, such as poems, book, law, bible, science theories, and even statue and panting are able to be interpreted. Generally, an expert is interpreting an object to get more specific and deep understanding of meaning to make it clearer. For example, an ambiguous poetry and abstract painting which are hard for most of people to understand, they could be the object of interpretation. Thus, people will know what the actual meanings are contained in those objects.

In this study writer will interpret eight song lyrics in Black Holes &

Revelations music album. The words and lyrics in this album are very ambiguous.

It is not easy to understand the meaning. As a matter of fact song lyrics in this album also can be defined as poems collection. Therefore, within explaining about music interpretation, writer firstly has to describe interpretation of poetry and poetry as a literature. This must be explained because poetry is a branch of literary work.

Wellek and Warren (1963: 22) said, “Also state that the term literature seems best if we limit it to the art of literature, that is, to imaginative literature.

Literature is also produced by imagination of the author. Literature is not just a document of facts, it is not just the collection of real events though it may happen in the real life. Literature can create its own world as a product of the unlimited imagination”. Literature is writing words that have amazing word in every word and excellence which is based on the human life which contained in oral and written. Literature is including from produce the human mind. In this case poetry

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA is the author’s imagination. Unlimited imagination like they said. Poem and poetry with its own beauty and exquisite which come from human mind has its own language.

John Peck and Martin Coyle wrote in their book Literary Terms and

Criticism (1985) there are three parts of works of literature, those are poetry, drama and novel. And Waluyo said, “puisi adalah bentuk karya sastra yang mengungkapkan pikiran dan perasaan penyair secara imajinatif dan disusun dengan mengonsentrasikan struktur fisik dan struktur batinnya” (poetry is a form of literature that express a poet’s thoughts and feeling imaginatively and arranged by means of concentrate on body structure and its inner feeling structure).

In Wikipedia is written that poetry is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language-such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre-to evoke meanings in addiction to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning. Based on this statement, writer assumes that poetry is a part of literature which the most closely with song lyric. As a matter of fact, song lyric also can be defined as musically poetry.

Basically, poetry interpretation is simply an action to understand and to define the meaning of poetry. Because sometimes it really is difficult to understand the words (diction) contained in a poem. Samuel Taylor Coleridge said that poetry; that is, prose,--words in their best order; poetry,--the best words in the best order. This is the reason of writer assumed that poetry is similar with song lyric. Song lyrics in Black Holes & Revelations music album consists of such

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA poetry words. The diction is quite hard to understand. Yet, the words itself really are fascinating and obviously genius words choosing.

Hermeren (2001:13) explains that the purpose of musical interpretation, among others, is to discover what the composer wanted, to express and communicate feelings, and to describe the historical, social, and psychological conditions for the creation of works which are being interpreted. Therefore, writer will try to find what did song writer of this album try to say. The positive of a poetry or song lyric interpretation is people will be capable of receiving knowledge from several points of view. Because of interpretation totally depends on author’s angle of view, it really is possible that every interpreter has different results.

This study is using stylistics approach to interpret the lyrics. Stylistics is a method to find the language style or figure of speech that was used in a literary work in order to get the understanding of meaning. It is a method of finding meaning by figure of speech (language style) in literature. According to Simpson

(2004: 2), “stylistics is a method of textual interpretation in which primacy of place is assigned to language.”

Edward Sapir said, “Language is a purely human and non-instinctive method of communicating ideas, emotions and desire by means of voluntarily produced symbols”. Language is a tool for human to deliver what is inside its brain. It can be defined as verbal, physical, biologically innate, and a basic form of communication. Language is a media to fulfill human expression. It is the most

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA important aspect in life. By language, people can delivering their inner thoughts and emotions, make sense of complex and abstract thought to learn. In literature language is a very important thing. Every literary work included song lyric

(poem/poetry) is written using standard language (written language). Above all, good ability and knowledge of language is the most important thing in writing literary work.

As writer sees, there are a lot of literature out there was written figuratively. Owing to that fact writer using stylistics method in writing this study.

Stylistics was included in this study so that writer’s interpretation could be more objective because based on theoretically and objective method.

In language and literature, stylistic is a part of literature. More insufficient and specific, study of figure of speech (language style) in conjunction with the aspects of beauty in words (literature work). In KBBI (Kamus Besar Bahasa

Indonesia / Big Indonesian Dictionary), style (gaya) has several characteristics, and one of them is; “cara yang khas, seperti pemakaian bahasa dalam karya sastra, misalnya gaya inversi” (particular style, such as usage of language in literary work).

Stylistics is a branch of applied linguistics concerned with the study of style in text. As stated in Abrams (1979: 165-167), he said that stylistics observes usage of language and style of language in a literature work. Stylistics analyses the usage of language style in a literature work. These are Language Styles

(Figure of Speech) according to ARP and Johnson in their book Sound and Sense,

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA An Introduction to Poetry (2002); simile, metaphor, personification, apostrophe,

synecdoche, metonymy, symbol, allegory, paradox, overstatement,

understatement, and irony. Briefly, stylistics observes poetical function that is

used by a language in a literature work. The reason why literature and language

could not be separated. What also necessary is variation of language. Usage of

both complex and complicated language in literature is the main attention in

stylistics. Literally, stylistics indeed was adopted from English itself, which

means study about figure of speech or language style.

1.2. Problems of the Study

Problem of this study is

1. What are the meanings of the song lyrics?

1.3. Scope of the Study

This paper focuses on finding meaning behind song lyrics on Black Holes

and Revelations studio album through the language style that was used. There are

a lot of ambiguous lyrics in this album. In writing this paper, writer only focuses

on interpreting six songs in this studio album. Those songs are Take a Bow,

Starlight, Invincible, Knights of Cydonia, Map of the Problematique, and City of

Delusion. Writer wrote his own interpretation and bordering it on figure of speech

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA and stylistics approach. This study consists of some literature aspects such as interpretation of literary work, poems, language and stylistics.

1.4. Purpose of the Study

The purposes of this study are

1. To describe the meaning of the six song lyrics on the Black Holes and

Revelations studio album.

1.5. Reasons for Choosing the Topic

This topic was chosen because the writer has got much interest in music interpretation. The study about song lyrics as literary work is quite rare. Writer also is interested to interpret this music album because the song writer talking a lot about corruptor and how dishonest the politic. They criticize the government a lot more. Writer was also encouraged by the fact that Black Holes and Revelations is considered as one of the most successful studio album by Muse based on various awards that this album had been accepted and a lot of sales record. It is proves that Muse’s music has a huge influence in British art.

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA 1.6. Method of the Study

This study used qualitative method. Based on Myers (1997), “qualitative research methods were developed in the social sciences to enable researches to study social and cultural phenomena”. It is data that is usually not in the form of numbers. This method is generally used in the literature of social science. Besides, in finishing up this study, writer made library research to read some theories. This study was written based on several literature theories and methods such as figure of speech and stylistics approach and contains explanations of poem and song lyric as literary work, figures of speech, and music interpretation, in the hope that this study can be more objective. Writer also browsed data from internet to find some kind of data about lyric and song to complete the interpretation of the lyrics.

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA 2. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

2.1. Song Lyric and Poetry

According to dictionary.com, lyric is “(of poetry) having the form and musical quality of a song and especially the character of a songlike outporing of the poet’s own thoughts and feelings, as distinguished from epic and dramatic poetry.” Song lyric essentially is a short poem. Obvious that it is a part of poem. If poem is a poet’s expression in composing his own words, then song lyric is a songwriter’s expression in composing his own words with music addition. This makes these two objects are subjective because song lyric and poem are written freely. The only thing different between song lyric and poem is just the additional music. That is the reason for writer assumed that song is a musically poem.

Some poetical techniques, according to Alexander (1977: 5-20) which is essential in writing poems are:

• Structural Devices (repetition, contrast and illustration);

• Sound Devices (alliteration, assonance, rhythm, mascullin ending, feminine

ending, onomatopoeia euphony, cocaphony);

• Sense Devices (imagery, simile, metaphor, personification, transpired of

epithet, symbol, metonymy, euphemism, exclamation, climax, anthitesis,

irony, allegory, hyperbole, rethorical questions, anthonomasia, astrope,

oxymoron, and epigram).

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA 2.2. Language Style

Figure of speech or language style is a way to receive benefit from the power of language. Author’s knowledge about language and word is really needed to choose diction in creating literature language which used in literary work.

Usage of some sort of language style in literature will create a more fascinating and interesting literary work. It is a peculiar way for literature authors to express their thought and feeling and also to make it more special. Language style in a literary work is the art of language and literature. It is able to create the exquisite and beauty of word, sentence and language itself.

The Sense Devices by Alexander which has been written in 2.1. will be combined with Sort of Language Styles according to ARP and Johnson in their book Sound and Sense, An Introduction to Poetry (2002). Those language style are; simile, metaphor, personification, apostrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, symbol, allegory, paradox, overstatement, understatement, and irony.

Obviously, there are a lot of similarity between Language Styles by ARP and Johnson and Sense Devices, one of Alexander’s poetical techniques. And writer summarized those aspects with figure of speech which is used as the theory in this and divided into:

• Simile. Generally the comparison of two things essentially unlike, on the basis

of a resemblance in one aspect. It is a figure in which a similarity between two

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA objects directly expressed. This comparison expresses with like, as, than,

similar to, resembles, or seems.

• Metaphor. An analogy identifying one object with another and describing to

the first one or more of the quality of the second. Also can said as the usage of

word or phrase which contrary to the real purpose (meaning).

• Personification. The arbitrary of human qualities to an inanimate object the

endow-ment of abstraction with human qualities (verb). This gives impression

as if inanimate thing is alive.

• Symbol. This style is a trope that combine a literal and sensuous quality with

an abstract or suggestive aspect but it does not use the literal meaning but use

that meaning to suggest another.

• Allegory. Figure of speech which lies somewhere between personification and

metaphor. An abstraction represented in concrete imagery almost always in

the form of a humanize character.

• Paradox. Contradiction statement. The words are opposites with the real

situation.

• Hyperbole. Consisting an exaggerated statement not meant to be taken

literally.

• Irony. Verbal device which implies an attitude quite different (and often)

opposite to literars expressed.

• Understatement. The opposite of hyperbole.

• Synecdoche. Usage of a word for the entire meaning. Ex: I haven’t seen his

nose today. Nose means somebody visually.

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA 2.3. Stylistic Approach

Principally, art of literature (art of language) can be considered as a part of art in general. Here, literature is studied as aesthetics object, observing the usage of allegory in literature, figurative language and any other rhetoric usage.

Therefore, the study is included in stylistics approach. Stylistics focuses on form of the use of symbol system in literature, which is obtained as rational-empiric to get accountable results. For this reason stylistics approach is used in a literature interpretation to obtain objective results. This study avoids personal interpretation

(subjective). Stylistics used to make it easier for us in feeling, enjoying and realizing expressive expressions of the author.

Simply, stylistics can be defined as science that study about figure of speech (language style). Stylistics can assist literature reader to more comprehend about the detail of literature language from tone aspect, word, sentence, until literature discourse. Literature teacher also can using stylistics as a method of literature study especially to teach about poetry defining from its language aspect.

In literary criticism stylistics can be used as an alternative theory to criticize a literary work from its language point of view. Whereas for a man of letters or literature author, as the creator of literary work, stylistics can contributed comprehension of kinds of language style so that author will be capable of increasing the quality of literary work.

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA In literature, stylistics is study about usage of language with its style.

Ratna (2007: 236) said, “stilistika merupakan ilmu yang menyelidiki pemakaian bahasa dalam karya sastra, dengan mempertimbangkan aspek-aspek keindahannya”. Domain of this study mainly limited on certain context. Stylistics specifically investigates style on a literary text and systematically observes usage of diction, language structure, words correlation to identify characteristics of language style. This is an effort to understand, feel and apply the style to create the artistic effect and receive meaning.

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA 3. THE DESCRIPTION

3.1. Take a Bow

Corrupt, you corrupt Bring corruption to all that you touch

Hold, you'll behold And beholden for all that you've done

And spell, cast a spell Cast a spell on the country you run

And risk, you will risk You will risk all their lives and their souls

And burn, you will burn You will burn in hell Yeah you'll burn in hell for your sins

An our freedom's consuming itself What we become is contrary to what we want Take a bow

Death, you bring death And destruction to all that you touch

Pay, you must pay You must pay for your crimes against the earth

Hex, feed the hex Feed the hex on the country you love

Yeah and beg, you will beg You will beg for their lives and their souls

Yeah and burn, you will burn You will burn in hell Yeah you will burn for all your sins

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA This song is quite easy to understand. It is obvious that this song aims to criticize corruptor. Through the lyrics, that is understandable that the songwriter showed his hate against corruption.

corrupt, you corrupt, bring corruption to all that you touch; you'll burn in hell for

your sins; death, you bring death, and destruction to all that you touch

Yet, the lyrics are really opposite with the title of the song. Based on dictionary.com Take a Bow is a phrase which means acknowledge or receive applause or praise. Step forward or stand up in order to receive recognition and applause (appreciation). This condition is very contrast with the lyrics which is criticizing corrupt politician. Another line from this song is

Our Freedom’s consuming itself, what we’ve become is contrary to what we want

Writer see this as a reminder, if we take freedom for granted it will change who we are. Figure of speech that is used is irony. Irony means tell something that has contradictory meaning with the real meaning or purpose. Irony is the language style that was chosen by the songwriter of Take a Bow. The title has contrary meaning with the lyrics to strengthen the songwriter’s allusion. This song is a protest to politician’s moral that has left their idealism behind just for money

(corruption). This song is a profanity against all corruptor.

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA 3.2. Starlight

Far away This ship has taken me far away Far away from the memories Of the people who care if I live or die Starlight I will be chasing a starlight Until the end of my life I don’t know if it’s worth it anymore Hold you in my arms I just wanted to hold you in my arms My life You electrify my life Let’s conspire to ignite All the souls that would just die just to feel alive I’ll never let you go If you promise not to fade away Never fade away Our hopes and expectations Black holes and revelations

There are quite a lot confusing lines in this song. The way writer sees this song was created for their fans. The band (songwriter) wants to their fans to not leave them no matter what. As the way they see their stardom, starlight here means fame or as we all know songwriter is a very humble person. Thus, being fame is not a big issue for them. It is more like their status as being musician. Automatically, being famous is the part of their job.

I’ll never let you go, if you promise not to fade away, never fade away

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA This line above is using hyperbole. These words are kind of telling “We will do our best as long as you guys still appreciate us and never go no matter what”.

I will be chasing a starlight until the end of my life I don’t know if it’s worth it

anymore

And on the line above, metaphor is used to show the purpose. Writer’s interpretation of this line is that they will always do something to make people recognize them for their music, for the rest of their life they will continue doing it even though at some point it does not seem worth anymore.

3.3. Invincible

Follow through Make our dreams come true Don't give up the fight You will be alright Cause there's no one like you In the universe

Don't be afraid What you're mind conceals You should make a stand Stand up for what you believe And tonight we can truly say Together we're invincible

And during the struggle They will pull us down But please, please let's use this chance to Turn things around And tonight we can truly say Together we're invincible

Do it on your own Makes no difference to me

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA What you leave behind What you choose to be and whatever they say You're soul's unbreakable

And during the struggle They will pull us down Please, please let's use this chance to Turn things around And tonight we can truly say Together we're invincible

On writer’s way of thinking, the title itself shows what this song is all about. It is very useful in increase and lifting our spirit when we are feeling down.

Based on the title, this song uses hyperbole as the language style. This song is about optimistic and positivity.

Make your dreams come true; don’t give up the fight; you will be alright; because

there’s no one like you

During the struggle; they will pull us down; but please, please let’s use this

chance to turn things around; and tonight we can truly say; together we’re

invincible.

What you leave behind; what you choose to be; and whatever they say your soul’s

unbreakable

Over all, that is obvious that the lyrics want to shout that when you have dreams, just do and struggle for it, stand up for what you have chosen to do in your life. It will be very hard and tough but you will make it worth it at last. Yet when you are down use it as a bar to be conquered, do not let it break your

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA passion. Increase your spirit. And there will always be someone who always supports you and together you are invincible (unbreakable).

3.4. Knight of Cydonia

Come ride with me Through the veins of history I'll show you why God Falls asleep on the job

And how can we win, When fools can be kings Don't waste your time Or time will waste you

No one's going to take me alive Time has come to make things right You and I must fight for our rights You and I must fight to survive

Come ride with me through the veins of history; I'll show you why God falls

asleep on the job

In these lines, the songwriter wants to tell us that there are a lot of tragedies and carnage in the history of human. And for all those things he is disappointed with God. Some of these tragedies might be come from the nature.

But sometimes other tragedies have happened depends on the way we live. Our

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA behavior as human being can create the world that we live. The songwriter also disappointed with God because He let all those bad things happened.

And how can we win when fools can be kings; Don't waste your time or

time will waste you

This line is kind of criticizing the way we choose our leader. In human history, although that was not always, but in many times society has chosen the wrong leaders. There are sometimes in the history where people are not capable to choose their leaders and those decisions make this life even worst.

In the end, each of us will finally die. That is one thing for sure. And how do we live our life? Does our life matter? How do we use the time that we have?

Do we really live a worth life or are we just wasting time? Because the line means here is if you waste your time, nobody will remember you. And your life will pass without any form of legacy. This is the way the time will waste you.

No one's going to take me alive; Time has come to make things right; You and I

must fight for our rights; You and I must fight to survive

Our life obviously depends on ourselves. The quality of our life depends from our actions and behaviors. We are not only actors in our life but also the directors. We create our own movie. We cannot give the responsibilities to the environment, the governments, our family, our friends, or our colleagues. Because if something bad occur, nobody will save us. Our life depends from us. Thus, for a

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA better life, this line wants to tell that we must fight for our rights and to survive because it is our responsibility to receive the right quality of life.

3.5. Map of Problematique

Fear, and panic in the air I want to be free From desolation and despair And I feel like everything I saw Is being swept away When I refuse to let you go

I can't get it right Get it right Since I met you

Loneliness be over When will this loneliness be over

Life will flash before my eyes So scattered almost I want to touch the other side And no one thinks they are to blame Why can't we see That when we bleed we bleed the same

I can't get it right Get it right Since I met you

Loneliness be over

When will this loneliness be over

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA Fear, and panic in the air; I want to be free from desolation and despair; And I

feel like everything I saw is being swept away when I refuse to let you go

As writer has read on the internet, this song is inspired to the planet of

Mars. The way writer sees, this song tells us about a personal life. This song expresses the story through symbol as language style. On the first line, they say about the fear and panic. These are the interpretation for the Greek names of gods of the two moons of the red planet (Mars). Fear and panic here representation

Phobos and Deimos. They are the two Greek gods of the moods of fear and panic.

The way writer sees this, this words kind of personal relationship. The relationship between the songwriter and his partner is very difficult. In this song he tries to express his emotions. He told that every effort that he makes to fix everything does not work and it makes him depressed. But the underground feeling of these words is that he wants and needs some change. He does not want to give up. He wants to defend their love and their story.

I can't get it right; Get it right; Since I met you

As writer also read on some sources, this song came up after Matthew

Bellamy (songwriter) breaks up with his girlfriend Gaia Polloni. During some live performance by Muse, the line Since I met You in this song was changed into words Since I Lost You. In this song the songwriter kind of saying that he was struggling to defend the relationship. He gets all the responsibilities about that the things go wrong. When you have a relationship with someone, sometimes simple things become so complicated. It is difficult to blend real life and love story.

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA Life will flash before my eyes so scattered almost; I want to touch the

other side and no one thinks they are to blame; why can't we see that when we

bleed we bleed the same?

When a relationship broken off, there always the need to know who is the guilty. We must know that the responsibility for the separation can be attributed to someone. But is something that is really similar with egoism. You can label every action with the word egoism. From whichever way you look you can call any action like egoist. The same happens here. Who can be blamed? It is not so easy to do and maybe not so important to do. After all, at the end of a story of love, remain only loneliness and a deep feeling of emptiness. A cross is made by two pieces. That is always a moment in every relationship that end, where the responsibilities, can be shared equality.

Loneliness be over; when will loneliness be over?

The sad part when a person broken off is he/she can feel lonely in all of a sudden. The only answer of this feeling is time. Give to yourself time. There always needs time. Time is the only real medicine for the loneliness.

3.6. City of Delusion

Stay, wait for me Build a fortress and shield your beliefs Touch the divide as we fall in the ravine

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA Can't believe when I don't trust all your theories turn to dust a truth to hide from you seeing red

Destroy this city of delusion Break these walls down Why do we face Justify my reasons with your bloody hand

You will not rest Settle for less until you guzzle and squander what's left

Do not deny where you live and let alone

Destroy this city of delusion Break these walls down Why do we face Justify my reasons with your bloody hand

Destroy this city of delusion

Break these walls down

Why do we face

Justify my reasons with your bloody hand

Stay, wait for me; Build a fortress and shield your beliefs; Touch the divide as we

fall in the ravine

This line shows how our leaders are secretive. They live a life of luxury

‘touch the divine’ as we work harder, longer and more for them ‘as we fall in line’

– think expenses scandal as one of many examples. But we still vote them in.

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA Can't believe when I don't trust all your theories turn to dust a truth to hide from

you seeing red; Destroy this city of delusion; Break these walls down; Why do we

face; Justify my reasons with your bloody hand

Why should we trust them? Why do we vote them after all they have done? Line ‘all your theories turn to dust‘ here kind of saying all their ideas are not working. The City of Delusion here is the metaphorical of fortresses built.

This fits in with break these walls down. Delusion obviously means to criticize that people are still pretending to believe all the wrong theories by the leaders.

Finishes with ultimate resistance message basically saying justice will be done when leader’s blood is shed.

You will not rest; Settle for less until you guzzle and squander what's left; Do not

deny where you live and let alone

The leaders will not stop to do whatever they want. In fact most of what they have done is destroying everything. Natural resources, killing in wars, and all the bad things occurred because of them. We are all told climate change is man- made but it is natural, there is an idea that it is being used purely to tax us more

(think petrol prices) also files were leaked of leading scientist discussing censorship of evidence.

UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA 4. CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION

4.1. Conclusion

In this study, there are various of meanings and language style that found in these six songs. Song lyric is a tool to express our feeling and thought. Through this album the songwriter express his criticism to politician, thoughts about love, and his disagreement in corrupt politics. The songwriter tries to advise society that we need to have critical thinking to change the situation and to make it a better life. All the songs contains several language styles such as hyperbole, irony, sarcasm, metaphor, paradox, and symbol. The writer concludes that every song has its own figure of speech to express those lyrics.

4.2. Suggestion

Writer of this writing suggests that stylistics can be considered as the new method in literature interpretation. He would like if stylistics methods is used more often not only in song lyric or poetry interpretation but also in another part of literary interpretation.

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Biography

Muse is an English rock band from Teignmouth, Devon, formed in 1994. The band consists of Matt Bellamy (lead vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards), Chris Wolstenholme (bass guitar, backing vocals, keyboards) and Dominic Howard (drums, percussion).

Muse released their debut album, Showbiz, in 1999, showcasing Bellamy's falsetto and a melancholic alternative rock style. Their second album, Origin of Symmetry (2001), expanded their sound, incorporating wider instrumentation and romantic classical influences, and earned them a reputation for energetic live performances. Absolution (2003) saw further classical influence, with orchestra on tracks such as "Butterflies and Hurricanes", and became the first of five consecutive UK number-one albums.

Black Holes and Revelations (2006) incorporated electronic and pop elements, influenced by 1980s groups such as Depeche Mode, displayed in singles such as "Supermassive Black Hole". The album brought Muse wider international success. The Resistance (2009) and The 2nd Law (2012) explored themes of government oppression and civil uprising and cemented Muse as one of the world's major stadium acts. Their seventh album, Drones (2015), was a concept album about drone warfare and returned to a harder rock sound.

Muse have won numerous awards, including two Grammy Awards, winning the Grammys for Best Rock Album for The Resistance and Drones, two Brit Awards, winning Best British Live Act twice, five MTV Europe Music Awards and eight NME Awards. They have sold over 20 million albums worldwide.

Many Muse songs are recognizable by lead vocalist Matt Bellamy's use of vibrato, falsetto, and melismatic phrasing, influenced by Jeff Buckley. As a pianist, Bellamy often uses arpeggios. Bellamy's compositions often suggest or quote late classical and romantic era composers such as Sergei Rachmaninov

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The bassline, performed by Wolstenholme, is the central motif of many Muse songs, usually fuzz bass, an overdriven, distorted tone. Both Bellamy and Wolstenholme use touch-screen controllers, often built into their instruments; this touch screen can control a variety of synthesizers and digital effects pedals but is most often used to control a Korg Kaoss pad or Digitech Whammy pedal.

Most earlier Muse songs lyrically dealt with introspective themes, including relationships, social alienation, and difficulties they had encountered while trying to establish themselves in their hometown. However, with the band's progress, their song concepts have become more ambitious, addressing issues such as the fear of the evolution of technology in their Origin of Symmetry (2001) album. They deal mainly with the apocalypse in Absolution (2003) and with catastrophic war in Black Holes and Revelations (2006). The Resistance (2009) focused on themes of government oppression, uprising, love, and panspermia. The album itself was mainly inspired by Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. Their sixth studio album, The 2nd Law (2012) relates to economics, thermodynamics, and apocalyptic themes. Their latest album, Drones (2015) is a concept album that uses autonomous killing drones as a metaphor for brainwashing and loss of empathy.

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