Kieron:
December nineteen, nearly Christmas day, A
The demon inside you, decided to come out and play, A
And as you'd expect, we feared the worst, B
But the doctors managed, to ease all the hurt, C
The chemo would come, and the steroids too, D
But for now, we had Christmas, E
Our family, and we had you. D
And I don't mind A
What anyone else has to say B
We might be 'fine' C
But we won't ever be the same B
I don't mind A
What anyone else has to say B
We might be 'fine' C
But we'd be better if you could stay B
The next year came, so did the pain and the blues, A
Still tinged with this hope, that it would all be over so soon, B
But then they said 'it's terminal', and cancer got so personal, C
No way this could be worse at all, I can't stand, I only fall, C
Scream so loud, and strike a wall... C
But I don't mind A
What anyone else has to say B
We might be 'fine' C
But we won't ever be the same D
I don't mind A
What anyone else has to say B
We might be 'fine' C
But we'd be better if you could stay B
And now you're bed bound, often with friends and family round... A
And I think I'm being selfish, because I can't bring myself, to visit you now, B
I just want to remember you as the uncle I always knew, C
So I'm sorry. D
But I swear, I don't mind A
What anyone else has to say B
We might be 'fine' C
But we won't ever, ever, be the same D
And I don't mind A
What anyone else has to say B
We might be 'fine' C
But we'd be better if you could have stayed. D
Because, February seventeenth, just after Valentine's day, A
That demon inside you, decided, to take you away. A
Louise wrote this song herself. Kieron is a song that Louise wrote over a period of 14 months, documenting her uncle's battle with Cancer from December 2011 to February 2013.
She chose Kieron for the title as it is her uncle's name. I think having his name as the title is really simple but also effective. Having his name as the title automatically tells us who the song is about, but it doesn't tell us what the song is about. It doesn't tell us that he was battling Cancer and that he died. Louise doesn't mention the name Kieron once in her lyrics.
We find out that he was battling Cancer and that he died through the lyrics. The lyrics tell us the whole story about his battle and his death. The first line 'The demon inside you, decided to come out and play.', explains to us how Kieron's Cancer started to attack. The last line 'That demon inside you, decided, to take you away.', tells that he has died because of the cancer.
The fact that she refers to Cancer as 'The demon' explains to us how horrible Cancer is and how badly it affected Kieron. Louise doesn't actually mention the word 'Cancer' a lot in this song. She doesn't need to as we straight away realise her uncle is ill with Cancer as she mentions the word 'Chemo'. Louise makes quite a few references to Cancer. This could be an example of a semantic field. Louise is also very specific when it comes to time. 'December nineteen, nearly Christmas day', she is very specific here because she tells us when it all started. She also tells us when everything ended as well, 'February seventeenth, just after Valentine's day'.
Louise has made the lyrics rhyme. The letters in pink at the end of each line indicate the rhyming pattern. This pattern is just to do with the last word from each line. Louise makes words rhyme within the line e.g. 'And now you're bed bound, often with friends and family round...', 'Bound' and 'Round' rhyme but they are included in the same line.
Louise used quite a lot of repetition in her lyrics. She repeats 'I don't mind' quite a lot. She also repeats 'We might be 'fine''. The fact that the word 'fine' is in quotation marks gives the impression that they wont be fine, also that they might not now what being fine actually is. She also uses the word 'might', this indicates that she is uncertain whether they will be fine or not. She seems to repeat this verse quite a few times but she usually changes the last line:
And I don't mind
What anyone else has to say
We might be 'fine'
She chose Kieron for the title as it is her uncle's name. I think having his name as the title is really simple but also effective. Having his name as the title automatically tells us who the song is about, but it doesn't tell us what the song is about. It doesn't tell us that he was battling Cancer and that he died. Louise doesn't mention the name Kieron once in her lyrics.
We find out that he was battling Cancer and that he died through the lyrics. The lyrics tell us the whole story about his battle and his death. The first line 'The demon inside you, decided to come out and play.', explains to us how Kieron's Cancer started to attack. The last line 'That demon inside you, decided, to take you away.', tells that he has died because of the cancer.
The fact that she refers to Cancer as 'The demon' explains to us how horrible Cancer is and how badly it affected Kieron. Louise doesn't actually mention the word 'Cancer' a lot in this song. She doesn't need to as we straight away realise her uncle is ill with Cancer as she mentions the word 'Chemo'. Louise makes quite a few references to Cancer. This could be an example of a semantic field. Louise is also very specific when it comes to time. 'December nineteen, nearly Christmas day', she is very specific here because she tells us when it all started. She also tells us when everything ended as well, 'February seventeenth, just after Valentine's day'.
Louise has made the lyrics rhyme. The letters in pink at the end of each line indicate the rhyming pattern. This pattern is just to do with the last word from each line. Louise makes words rhyme within the line e.g. 'And now you're bed bound, often with friends and family round...', 'Bound' and 'Round' rhyme but they are included in the same line.
Louise used quite a lot of repetition in her lyrics. She repeats 'I don't mind' quite a lot. She also repeats 'We might be 'fine''. The fact that the word 'fine' is in quotation marks gives the impression that they wont be fine, also that they might not now what being fine actually is. She also uses the word 'might', this indicates that she is uncertain whether they will be fine or not. She seems to repeat this verse quite a few times but she usually changes the last line:
And I don't mind
What anyone else has to say
We might be 'fine'
The last line of this verse changes, it's been 'But we'd be better if you could have stayed.' and it has also been 'But we'd be better if you could stay.'. It's been a few different things actually. I think Louise does this just to emphasise what she says in the verse, but she changes the last line to follow on with the story. The first line that she uses is 'But we won't ever be the same' and the last line that she uses is 'But we'd be better if you could have stayed.'.
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