(Advanced) Love Letter (by Nick Cave)

Before listening

Connect the rhyming words – two pairs are only semi-rhymes:

Hand

Prayer

Envelope

Name

Letter

Hill

Words

Say

Storms

Mind

Wind

Planned

Rain

Get her

Burst

Will

Forms

Way

Bear

Hope

Which are the semi-rhymes? Good songs often have a few of these – why?

Listen:

Love Letter 

 Read lyrics while listening:

 I hold this letter in my hand

A plea, a petition, a kind of prayer
I hope it does as I have planned
Losing her again is more than I can bear

I kiss the cold, white envelope
I press my lips against her name
Two hundred words. We live in hope
The sky hangs heavy with rain

Love Letter Love Letter
Go get her Go get her
Love Letter Love Letter
Go tell her Go tell her

A wicked wind whips up the hill
A handful of hopeful words
I love her and I always will
The sky is ready to burst

Said something I did not mean to say
Said something I did not mean to say
Said something I did not mean to say
It all came out the wrong way

Love Letter Love letter
Go get her Go get her
Love Letter Love letter
Go tell her Go tell her

Rain your kisses down upon me
Rain your kisses down in storms
And for all who'll come before me
In your slowly fading forms

I'm going out of my mind
Will leave me standing in
The rain with a letter and a prayer
Whispered on the wind

Come back to me
Come back to me
O baby please come back to me

The songwriter like to create ‘images’ with words. How do verbs help him to do this?

He also likes alliteration (repeating the same sound from word to word) for example: Love Letter Love letter / Go get her Go get her

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In what way does this song bring language, emotion and nature together?

How does the song reflect on male attitudes towards relationships?