The whole song is an anthem designed to lift people up when they are at their lowest. When one starts to feel hopeless having someone to just be with them is often one of the best things for them. At the end the perspective changes a bit and Day begins to use we, “We’ll rise up/ Rise like the waves/ We’ll rise up/ In spite of the ache/ We’ll rise up/ And we’ll do it a thousand times again.” This makes the listener feel as though they are not alone but they have someone to fight with them. It inspires the listener because it feels like someone understands their feelings of hopelessness but believes that they will make it through. She uses you a lot so then the listener feels like she is talking directly to them and encouraging them to keep going.
Throughout Day’s song, she uses perspective so that she talks directly to the audience. Lastly, she finishes the melody with hyperbole, this serves to depict the resilience Day is trying to inspire in her audience. The way she repeats it illustrates to the readers how many times one needs to get back up again, which is every time.
She moves on to the repetition of “I’ll rise up” which also inspires resilience. This inspires resilience and hope in the listener that the next day will be better. The simile in the first part of the melody compares getting back up again to the day rising. The melody comes in with a progression of chords picking up the pace giving off an uplifting tone. 3 You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. 139 O Lord, you have searched me and known me 2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up you discern my thoughts from afar. When you move into the melody she features multiple different literary devices singing: I’ll rise up Psalm 139 English Standard Version Search Me, O God, and Know My Heart To the choirmaster. It captures the feeling of doing something over and over again but never feeling as though you can do it right so you just keep doing it again only to yield the same results. The song starts off slow with an emphasis on strategically placed minor chords and then the lyrics start… The metaphor of a merry-go-round right from the get-go perfectly captures the feeling of hopelessness that Day wants to address. Day’s song acknowledges these feelings but then uses her song to inspire resilience and hopes for the future.ĭay starts her song with a metaphor: You’re broken down and tired Doing the same things day in and day out with no reprieve brings the feelings of hopelessness to a new level. They should take heed to think about where greed and indulgence threatens our democracy.Andra Day’s song “ Rise” from her album Cheers to the Fall is a power ballad that seems as if it was made for Covid times. These lyrics should be a rally call against the USA GOP and inspire Millennials to vote Trump out of office.
AND I RISE UP SERIES
Heard it first on the series titled Safe on Netflix.
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