help picking songs?

Question

i need a song that has some literary devices in it (ex. alliteration, metaphor, simile, personification, rhyme, narrative, etc.). it also should be a fairly recent song.

plz and thank you.

this song is for a school project, so keep it appopriate too plz.

Answer 1

"The Wind Cries Mary" by Jimi Hendrix is loaded with what you need. I know several teachers who use this song for just that!

After all the jacks are in their boxes and the clowns have all gone to bed
You can hear happiness staggering on down the street
Footprints dressed in red and the wind whispers mary

A broom is drearily sweeping up the broken pieces of yesterdays life
Somewhere a queen is weeping somewhere a king has no wife
And the wind it cries mary

The traffic lights they turn of blue tomorrow
And shine their emptiness down on my bed
The tiny island sails downstream cause the life that lived is is dead
And the wind screams mary

Will the wind ever remember the names it has blown in the past
And with this crutch its old age and its wisdom
It whispers no this will be the last
And the wind cries mary

Answer 2

When It Comes by Incubus is full of similes and metaphors, but i think it has swearing. Maybe you should specify that you want songs without swearing.

Answer 3

The red hot chili peppers song Throw away your television has lots of rhyming.

Answer 4

Breaking Benjamin "Dance With the Devil" off thier cd= Phobia

Hope I helped