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Love The Way You Lie by Robyn Rihanna Essay

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When love hurts
The aim of this essay is to present you with a close analysis and interpretation of the song ‘Love the way you lie' which was released in August 2010 as a single from the album of Marshall Bruce Mathers featuring Robyn Rihanna from the music album (Recovery). The song is considered to be one of these songs that speak to a great majority of people. It is its thematic core which seems to attract the attention of both women and men regardless of their age or social status.
This song talks about a love and hate relationship between a man and a woman. Therefore, it talks about the paradox of life's nature. There are no simple and single meanings. Each concept and idea exist in the form of dualism, and this is the exact …show more content…

The woman talks and tells her man, the man of her dreams that she watches herself being burnt by all the violence she experiences in their relationship, but she still remains there, she is not going to leave him. She is going to stand there, and she is going to keep on crying but she is not going to abandon him. So, listeners realize from the very beginning that she is involved in a relationship where domestic violence is the relationship's big closed secret. So then the man as if he explodes, sings the following verses and stanza. Eminem sings his words as if he is ready to explode, in a feeling of despair, and anger at himself for his behavior.
‘I can't tell you what it really is / I can only tell you what it feels like / And right now there's a steel knife in my windpipe / I can't breathe, but I still fight while I can fight / As long as the wrong feels right / It's like I'm in flight / High off of love, drunk from her hate / It's like I'm huffing paint / And I love it the more that I suffer / I suffocate / …'. The man addresses the woman now. He knows that what they live cannot be described. He knows that he can only stick to trying to give her the idea of what his behavior feels like. He cannot explain it, he cannot give her his own judgment but he can only express the way he feels.

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