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Metaphor & Hyperbole:

"You're at war with love"

- Emotional wounds never heal if you keep fighting your own feelings. If you find peace with love and your emotions, you can move on.

Assonance:

"Fading", "Away", "Change"

- His feelings for his ex aren’t going away.

All the memories of the past seem to haunt him

Internal Rhymes:

"holes", "close"

"drones", "alone"

Assonance:

"wound", "wooing"

"odds", "nods"

Hard Rhyme:

"spree", "me"

"know", "go", "unknown"

"zone", "home", "alone"

Metaphor:

"Arrow holes that never close from cupid on a shooting spree"

"Trying to write yourself a rifle maybe sharpen up a song"

Allusion:

"With no Tom Hanks to bring you home"

- Never let something small ruin you.

He'll never let the pain destroy him.

The wounds never heal because they're always broken.

The fear of not knowing what will happen when you do let your lover go.

In love's war, the biggest enemy is loneliness-being without the one you love.

Ear Rhyme:

"touched", "much"

Assonance:

"best", "outweighed"

Hard Rhyme:

"had", "bad"

Anaphora:

- He wishes he could take back all of his feelings and times together he had with his girlfriend, but is having trouble to do so.

Everything is telling him to forget about his ex and wishes she wasn't that great and that the good could cover the bad.

He's gonna have feelings for her until she tells him "it's over".

[Pre-Hook:]

I wish I never looked, I wish I never touched

I wish that I could stop loving you so much

Cause I’m the only one that's trying to keep us together

When all of the signs say that I should forget her

I wish you weren’t the best, the best I ever had

I wish that the good outweighed the bad

Cause it’ll never be over, until you tell me it's over

[Hook]

[Verse 2:]

(And just leave then)

You shouldn't have but you said it

(And I hope you never come back)

It shouldn't have happened but you let it

Now you're down on the ground screaming medic

The only thing that comes is the post-traumatic stresses

Shields, body armors and vests

Don't properly work, that's why you're in a locker full of hurt

The enemy within and all the fires from your friends

The best medicine is to probably just let her win

[Pre-Hook V.2]

I wish I couldn't feel, I wish I couldn't love

I wish that I could stop cause it hurts so much

Cause I’m the only one that's trying to keep us together

When all of the signs say that I should forget her

I wish you weren’t the best, the best I ever had

I wish that the good outweighed the bad

Cause it’ll never be over, until you tell me it's over

[Hook]

Ear Rhyme:

"it", "medic"

Allusion:

"The only thing that comes is the post-traumatic stresses"

Half Rhymes:

"work", "hurt"

"friends", "medicine"

Metaphor:

"You're in a locker full of hurt"

Assonance/Alliteration:

"within", "medicine", "win"

"Shields", "armors", "vests"

[Bridge 2:]

Cause you've set me on fire

I’ve never felt so alive, yeah

Hoping wounds heal, but it never does

That's because you're at war with loveAnd I’m at the point of breakingAnd it’s impossible to shake it

See, you hoped the wound heals, but it never doesThat's cause you're at war with love

Hope it heals, but it never does

That's cause you're at war with love!

[Hook x2]

Eye Rhymes:

"breaking", "shake it"

- He's comparing his emotional pain to physical, the excruciating pain of burning doesn’t feel as farfetched as he has been emotionally beaten.

Instead of “feeling so alive”, he's expressing that the emotional wounds he is enduring only proves how mortal he truly is.

Love is never easy.

Even after a relationship ends, you often still love the person even though you want to move on.

It’s a constant battle and it hurts.

He can’t take anymore emotional pain, and there is nothing he can do about it.

- You’re hoping the emotions and the hurt go away but being love, its hard to forget and leave it alone.

[Intro:]

The wound heals but it never does

That's cause you're at war with love

You're at love with war, yeah

[Hook:]

These battle scars, don't look like they're fading

Don’t look like they’re ever going awayThey ain't never gonna changeThese battle

[Verse 1:]

Never let a wound ruin me

But I feel like ruin's wooing me

Arrow holes that never close from cupid on a shooting spree

Feeling stupid cause I know it ain't no you and me

But when you're trying to beat the odds up

Been trying to keep your nods up and you know that you should know

And let her go but the fear of the unknown

Holding on another lover's phone sends you back into the zone

With no Tom Hanks to bring you home

A lover not a fighter on the frontline with a poem

Trying to write yourself a rifle

Maybe sharpen up a song

To fight the tanks and drones of you being alone

Background:

Title; Battle Scars

Speaker; Lupe Fiasco

Tone; Depressed, mad

Theme; He's in a war with love, "You're at war with love"

Conflict; He can't get his mind off his ex girlfriend and still has feelings for her

This song was released in Australia as a single from Guy Sebastian's album Armageddon on August 10, 2012.

It was later released in the US/UK as the fourth single from Lupe Fiasco's Food and Liquor 2: TGARA Part One

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