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Incubus’s way of saying goodbye

I chose the song “Nice to Know You” by the group “Incubus.” Brandon Boyd the lead of singer of the group has been known to write songs about his past girlfriends to say goodbye to them or talk about how good it used to be. In this song he is talking about how good he feels now that he has broken up with his current girlfriend. As he says in the chorus of the song “Goodbye, nice to know you” which means they ended on a bad note and he is ready to move on. Incubus uses some literary term in this song and they are imagery, metaphor, and rhyme scheme.
This song starts off with some imagery by saying “Better than watching Geller bending silver spoons” and “Better than witnessing newborn nebulas in bloom.” (Line 1-2) Brandon starts the song off with how his day is going as he had broke up with his girlfriend the day before. The next two lines give a sense that his girl had cheated on him and that is why...

Posted by: Chad Boger

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