Sweet Marry

This song might not be politically charged nor a conflict that deals with a political matter. But in my mind this song defiantly has a conflict. A love for another human being can be very confusing therefore having much conflict.
The song I picked is called Sweet Marry by Equilizer. It about this man who goes to J.A. in 1976 and falls in love with this girl named marry and they spend a whole year together but at the end of that year he has to leave. She states that before he met her he was a little boy and now after the year they spent together he has become a man. After he leaves he realizes how much he loves her and no matter how much time goes by he will never forget the wonders of Mary’s bed. He grows old and the family he build moves away he decided to go back to see Mary and when he gets there he finds out she had died but also she has touched the lives of a lot of other men. The last line of the song is “you never know what you've got in this cruel world until you realize it’s gone”. I think that is a very key point to the song. The message in this song is you will never forget your first love. The writer of this song conveys the message by really telling a story. It is very easy to understand this song because of how it is written. They artist is responding to a feeling he feels for this one particular girl he fell it in love with. “i still ask why did i go they say your first love's your hardest love and i'd have to say that's so”. The artist in the song is talking about himself because he uses the pronouns “I”, and when talking about Mary he uses “she”. This tragedy has happened to the artist of the song. You can tell this person is a man who is kind of hippie like because in the song he says the date of 1976 and how he just goes the J.A. for the year. The kind of girl he falls in love with is a mountain girl. The chores of the song also represents maybe his hippie ways “cause you can smoke two pounds of Cali herb by yourself then try to stand on your head no matter how high you get you'll never forget the wonders of Mary’s bed" this line does not just only talk about his hippie ways but it also says a message that no matter what he does or what he takes he would never forget Mary. The conflict is mostly internal, and he is arguing for just more time so he can spend it with Mary. And when he finally decides to go back and see her, he finds that she has passed away. They audience of this song is anyone who wants to listen to it. I don’t think he is singing to a particular crowd just anyone who has ever been in love can relate.
The artist does a great job on laying out the setting and telling about his internal conflict. You can really feel and see what he is seeing. “now my mary's sweet smell was in my nose and vision it robbed me blind” Another positive quality is that he is telling a story that can relate to a lot of people. Lots of people have dealt with this same internal conflict and it’s a very strong one. A negative method I think he uses is he is not clear or consice at the end of the song. The last verse can be anaylized in many ways. “asked the bartender where could she be and as he poured me a beer he said last year she left this world peacefully and every man in the bar looked at me and they said old man dont you see that we were all touched by mary just like you now she lives on in our memories” This could mean that she just was a kind of women who just go around having affairs with men, or I think she was just a wonderful women who had such a free spirit that it touched many men’s lives and helped them. Finally I think this story is very effective and the artist is credible. He is telling the story so it is told from his point of view which makes it credible. It is also effective because I can relate to his feelings and understand the pain he goes through missing his Mary. This love story is a very common one so most people will be touched by this song as well.
I think this song can be both pathos (audience emotion) and ethos (speaker’s credibility). I chose pathos because this song does depend on the audience emotions to really make this song as powerful as it is. I also chose ethos because the lyrics of the song is like a story. The artist is the speaker and so therefore this song is written from his thoughts. This is one of my favorite songs and I hope you can appreciate it as much as I do.

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