Second Draft

When a person grows older, they will have completely different views about the world around us, which is the reason that we grow throughout time. We might realize that the world around us is not that great as we thought when we are kids, we might also realize that we have different goals to fulfill in different stages of life. This poem clearly showed this point. In this poem, I will talk about how it shows how people change throughout different stages of their life.

The poem talks about the author’s different age groups and their mindset at those times. At the age of seven years old, he and his friends were pushing each other to their limits, try to do things that they can’t achieve at that period of time. But when it came to the age of eleven, he starts to write songs and stories, tries to let people that love him remember about him. At the age comes to 20, he became like a teenager, he believes that there is nothing that can stop him, he started to have goals about his life, started to get best friends that are always on his side. After another ten years, he’s 30 now, he started to think about life, already have his own family and children, he would take care of his kids and sing the songs to them. When he became 60 now, he thinks that the world is cold because there are no one around him, but at least he got his family, even though they don’t visit a lot. 

The tone throughout the song is normally peaceful, but the background music will change in a different part of the lyrics, representing his mood in different periods of time. From the start it was very peaceful, showing that kids won't really be having that much goals or passions at that period of time because they still are figuring out the world. When he talks about the time he was 11 and 20 years old, the drums came in and you can hear that there is more and more passion that part. But when it comes to 30 years old, he changes his opinion a lot, he had his own family and children, where he can not be that passion as he was young, and it turns more like an inheriting in a form of singing to his children just like his father. In the end, when he was old, he was lonely and angry about it, so the music turns to an angry mood. I like that the singer/producer is making a difference throughout these life periods, it clearly shows how people change their minds throughout time. I think in this song, the singer is trying to present the fact that there are different things happens to us and we change throughout these experiences.