We Will Not Go Down

(Created  by Michael Heart)

A blinding flash of white light

Lit up the sky over Gaza tonight

People running for cover

Not knowing whether they’re dead or alive

They came with their tanks and their planes

With ravaging fiery flames

And nothing remains

Just a voice rising up in the smoky haze

We will not go down

In the night, without a fight

You can burn up our mosques and our homes and our schools

But our spirit will never die

We will not go down

In Gaza tonight

Women and children alike

Murdered and massacred night after night

While the so-called leaders of countries afar

Debated on who’s wrong or right

But their powerless words were in vain

And the bombs fell down like acid rain

But through the tears and the blood and the pain

You can still hear that voice through the smoky haze

We will not go down

In the night, without a fight

You can burn up our mosques and our homes and our schools

But our spirit will never die

We will not go down

In Gaza tonight

Ø  Analysis of the song with the title ‘’We Will Not Go Down’’:

a)      The Background

The background of Michael Heart composed this song is because he felt  sympathy with painful of  Gaza Citizen. The early, he planed  to sell his Mp3 in CD and the result of sell it, he will help inhibition  in Gaza, but  he felt difficult if he must able to sell his CD. So in the last he decided  allow  to download his song. Michael Heart hoped  after every body listened  this song, they would care and want to help  people of Gaza in Palestine.

b)      Interpretation Of The Title

Interpretation from my opinion after read this title, I have respond. May be this song is  give spirit and expectation to listener for not go down from our  problems and our failed.

c)      The  diction of the text:

   ü  Connotation

Connotation is suggested meaning of word.

·         “A blinding flash of white light”, the meaning of this sentence is same with “Smoky haze”.

·         “And the bombs fell down like acid rain”, the meaning of this sentence is same with “many bullet fell like the rain”

    ü  Figurative language

In those song there ar two lyrics that has figurative language from the first stanza in the first lyric “A blinding flash of white light”         (Melatonin)

And also from the third stanza in fourth lyric “But our spirit will never die”     (Hyperbola)

d)      Theme

The theme of this song is to tell and persuade about the cruel by Israel Soldiers to Citizen of Gaza, because this country broke the Pure Land of Palestine. They killed many people  there and separate the children with their parents and broke every people and everything breath in Gaza City.

e)      Atmosphere

The atmosphere of  that song is to describe about sadness  the people in Gaza from the cruel by Israel Soldiers. Although Israel Soldiers came with their tanks and their planes with ravaging fiery flames to burn Mosques, Homes, Schools, and Gaza City, but the Citizen of Gaza always effort to attack from that Cruel of Israel, whereas  nobody care with their and the leader of countries afar debated on who’s wrong and right.

f)       Point of view

Point of view about this song is the third person, because Micheal Heart tell about condition of Citizen of Gaza in Palestine.

g)      Value

Value of this song is Moral value, because this song tell about character from the Israel Soldiers who very Cruel. I have supporting sentence from the second stanza in the first lyric and also from the fourth stanza in the first and the second lyric.

h)      Message

 If we looked from the event from Gaza, we can get message about we don’t fighting between us and we must live in peaceful and far with fighting.