Lyric Analysis 2- Frank Turner, Photosynthesis

1,2,1,2,3,4

Well I guess I should confess that I am starting to get old
All the latest music fads all passed me by and left me cold
All the kids are talking slang I won't pretend to understand
All my friends are getting married, mortagages and pension plans
And it's obvious my angry adolescent days are done
And I'm happy and I'm settled in the person I've become
But that doesn't mean I'm settled up and sitting out the game
Time may change alot but some things may stay the same

And I won't sit down
And I won't shut up
And most of all I will not grow up
And I won't sit down
And I won't shut up
And most of all I yeah I won't grow up

Oh maturity's a wrapped up package deal so it seems
And ditching teenage fantasy means ditching all your dreams
All your friends and peers and family solomnly tell you you will
Have to grow up be an adult yeah be bored and unfulfilled
Oh when no ones yet explained to me exactly what's so great
About slaving 50 years away on something that you hate, about meekly shuffling down the path of mediocrity
Well if that's your road then take it but it's not the road for me

And I won't sit down
And I won't shut up
And most of all I will not grow up
And I won't sit down
And I won't shut up
And most of all I yeah I won't grow up

And if all you ever do with your life
Is photosynthesize
Then you deserve every hour of these sleepless nights
That you spend wondering when you're gonna die

Now I'll play and you sing
The perfect way for the evening to begin
Now I'll play and you sing
The perfect way for the evening to begin

And I won't sit down
And I won't shut up
And most of all yeah I won't grow up
And I won't sit down
And I won't shut up
And most of all I will not grow up
And I won't sit down
And I won't shut up
And most of all I will not grow up

Lyrically this song was the song i liked best and it was also the song that i could gather the most ideas for a video of. Not only did i have this connection with this song but i think my other group members also thought this with themselves as we all unanimously chose this song. The song itself is quite upbeat which meant we could plan the tone of the music video to be happy. The lyrics have reference to Frank Turner watching himself and his friends grow old while the chorus seems to show his willingness to stay young. I felt the song didn't necessarily tell a story like some of the other songs in our shortlist but was far more general which meant we could have more idea's available. Although the song's tone is happy fast paced song the nearer the end you get the faster the song gets.

The song focus's on one man's summarising his feeling's about being an adult and missing his youthful days. The message that i get from this song is that Frank Turner wants to relive his younger days and one way to show this in a music vide would be to re-enact those days. There is one line in the chorus that says to me that Frank doesn't want to grow older and doesn't care if he acts as a child as the final line in each chorus and the final line of the song is 'and most of all i will not grow up'. I feel that this single line does give a representation for the whole song and we would be foolish not to exploit this in our music video.

I am really looking forward to making this song into a music video and as we are going to start our original filming tomorrow, we had some new fantastic idea's today which we hope to film even though we haven't got it in our planning. At the moment we have story-boarded our ideas which will be put on my blog in the future. We have also got sheets of other idea's some we are going to use and some we aren't. These will also be put onto my blog at a later date as they are very untidy at the moment.