Analysis of Example Lyrics - Stay Awake

'If we don't kill ourselves we'll be the leaders of a messed up generation.

If we don't kid ourselves will they believe us if we tell them the reasons why

Did we take it too far, take it too far

Did we chase the rabbit into wonderland

Lose a hundred grand, will they understand

It was all to stay awake for the longest

March on, always after us

Lost troops, half the class of us

You man ain't seen the last of us

Stick around, yeah like elastoplast

Not half mast, raise the flagkick the sand,

To let you know that we're coming and we're nasty man.

Don't need sleeping beauty,

No, it's what you do to me

Come midnight and daybreak,

yes please gotta find me a namesake,

we got faith but don't need bibles

take the micheal, hear my recital

i hold the title, quite vital

we get high on the opposite of nital

It was all to stay awake for the longest,

and, it was wrong

it was wrong, but it felt so right

See you at the finish line,

See you at the finish line

If you got the heart to join us
If we don't kill ourselves we'll be the leaders of a messed up generation.

If we don't kid ourselves will they believe us if we tell them the reasons why

Did we take it too far, take it too far

Did we chase the rabbit into wonderland

Lose a hundred grand, will they understand

It was all to stay awake for the longest

March on, always after us

Lost troops, half the class of us

You man ain't seen the last of us

Stick around, yeah like elastoplast

Not half mast, raise the flagkick the sand,

To let you know that we're coming and we're nasty man.

Don't need sleeping beauty,

No, it's what you do to me

Come midnight and daybreak,

yes please gotta find me a namesake,

we got faith but, don't need bibles

take the micheal, hear my recital

i hold the title, quite vital

we get high on the opposite of nital

We just grow, if it's late

Then we'll show, we don't wait

We just grow, if you hate

we don't show, we don't wait

We just grow, if it's late

Then we'll show, we don't wait

We just grow

If we don't kill ourselves we'll be the leaders of a messed up generation.

If we don't kid ourselves will they believe us if we tell them the reasons why

Did we take it too far, take it too far

Did we chase the rabbit into wonderland

Lose a hundred grand, will they understand

It was all to stay awake for the longest'

Above are the lyrics to Example's song Stay Awake, this is the song that we have chosen to use for our music video. I believe that Examples lyrics in this song are bout how our generation has changed compared to how it used to be and that if we dont change or end our lives now then we will be come the leaders of the next generation in which we will me even more messed up. This can be seen in lyrics 'If we dont kill ourselves we'll be the leaders of a messed up generation'. Further on in the song Example starts to explain whats caused the messed up generation, I think he says that its down to the government, drugs and alchoal abuse. He thinks that everything has been taken too far 'take it too far, did we chase the rabbit into wonderland?' the use of the world wonderland suggests the idea of us living in this crazy world where the things that should be important arent.  As a group we have decided that we want the visuals of our music video to be able to relate with Example's Stay Awake lyrics, we believe that this will help the audience understand the song better as there is clearly an important message in this song. In our music video we want to have a main artist who would sing the lyrics to the song like Example does in his, in most of our video. In other parts of the music video we want to have teenagers as this will represent the messed up generation, which we see in Examples lyrics. Our editing will be shown in the visuals as well when the beat is slow then the editing will be as well and when the beat starts to pick up, and starts getting quick then so will the editing. The style of our music video will be narrative and performance based as the lyrics need to meet the visuals therefore we need to make it as performance based as we possibly can.