This chapter discusses songs and their themes, feelings, and moral lessons. Some common song themes include peace, environmental care, friendship, family, patriotism, parental love, love, and protest. Feelings expressed in songs include lonely, hopeful, remorse, faithful, brave, and optimistic. The chapter provides examples of songs and their lyrics that express emotions like sadness, freedom, and hope. It concludes that moral lessons in songs contain important messages from writers and singers for listeners, and that songs can have multiple moral lessons open to listeners' interpretations.
4. Examples of songs
theme:
?Peace
?Environmental care
?Friendship
?Family
?Patriotism
?Parental love
?Love
?Protest
Examples of feeling
within songs:
?Lonely
?Hopeful
?Remorse
?Faithful
?Brave
?Optimist
5. ? Some songs show expression of feeling
through the lyrics, here are some example:
Title/Singer Lyrics Expression
Tears in Heaven /
Eric Clapton
I must be strong and carry on
Cause I know I don¡¯t belong,
here in heaven
Expressing sadness
Jailbreak / ACDC All in the name of Liberty, just
set me free
Expressing freedom
Give peace a
chance/ John
Lennon
All we are saying, is to give
peace a chance
Expressing hope
6. Moral Lesson
? Moral lessons of a song contain the
important messages from the lyrics
writer (or the singer) to the people who
listen to the songs
? A song may has more than one moral
lessons
? The moral songs are interpreted based
on the freedom of the listeners