Imagine Dragons Song Analysis Essay

After I annotated this song and actually looked into what the lyrics were saying I learned that not everyone is who you think they are. For instance, you hide a lot of things from people not because you want to ,but because you don’t know how to tell them or maybe you’re afraid of what they will think of you. In the song ‘Demons’ by Imagine Dragons the singer says,”I wanna hide the truth’(Imagine dragons line 8 box 3) ,but then he says,” don’t want to hide the truth.”( Imagine Dragons line 35 box 8) I think that he is having mixed feelings what he should do. He is afraid that if he tells you that you may leave him or you won’t look at him the same way ever again. In the music video it gives you a very good example about how much you may not know about your best friend. You may think you now everything about someone and you may no nothing about a person. In the video it shows a boy playing video games and then his drunk dad comes in the room and starts attacking him. I bet that boy has told no one about that situation because if he did he wouldn’t still be living with him. Like i said earlier he is afraid to tell people because he doesn’t know one, how his dad will react and two, how many people may judge him. So, he thinks that he should just live through it and not tell anyone. Another, thing could be that he …show more content…
You can think you know everything about a person ,but that doesn’t mean you do. I know that you’ve heard this ever since you were five ,but it’s the truth, ‘Be the friend you want to have’ and ‘ treat people how you wish to be treated.” I say this because maybe you went through a tough time and no one noticed how much pain you were in. So always make sure your friends are okay they may have a smile on their face,but remember that doesn’t always mean they’re okay on the inside. It’s so much easier to put a fake smile on your face then it is to tell everyone exactly how you are