Analogy Examples

Analogy examples will help you use examples of analogies in your songwriting to reach your listeners and help communicate with them. There are many way to build on them and variation is the key for your songwriting.

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Using them allows you to compare two different things when you’re songwriting so you can make it clear to the listener there are similarities between the things you are comparing.

Here are some examples:

1. Glove is to hand as paint is to wall
2. Citizens are to president as solar system is to galaxy
3. Horses are to past societies as computers are to future societies

There are parallels in each of these examples between the first term and the second but the second expands the example so you can expand the listeners understanding.

Here is another example of the reasoning behind it. I’m thinking of buying a new guitar. I talk to my two friends who have bought new guitars and find that both of them bought the same kind of a guitar from the same store.

They both rave about the guitar, store, service and price. I conclude that if I buy my guitar at the same store I will be as happy as them.

This is how you expand on any concept you have in your song and take it to a new level of understanding for your listener. Stay focused on your listeners experience when you take them down this road. You want to captivate them so make sure they don't get lost.