Reading logs

Reading log #5

Title: Roots

Artist: Imagine dragons

Text type: Song

I really like this song. I know lots of people can relate to this song. The lyrics has great meaning behind them. This single was released on the 27th of August 2015. As we see in the title, this song is about our roots.

Don’t throw stones at me

I believe this means “Don’t make judgement or assumptions about me”

Don’t tell anybody

Don’t spread around rumors about me is what I think the artist is telling us in this line.

Trouble finds me

It’s not always my fault and I seem to be a magnet of troubles, bad things and bad luck.

Those are the first three lines of the song. I think they’re really relatable. I can personally relate. Some people just makes judgment or assumptions of other people without really knowing them and spread around rumors which most of the time aren’t accurate. And the line Trouble finds me is really relatable especially to teenagers like myself. Even in school, some people are just doing bad things in purpose but I believe there are also kids who are good kids but trouble just seems to find them.

Rock bottom, rock bottom, rock bottom,

I’m going back to my roots

This lyrics is amazing. The artist tells us that when we’re depressed or feel like we’ve hit ‘rock bottom’, we always have our ‘roots’, which is our family to turn back to. This song teaches us that our families will always be there for us. That’s what family is for. And that when someone in our family is depressed or feel like they’ve hit ‘rock bottom’, we should be there for them. That we should help them get back up like how they are supposed to do when we hit ‘rock bottom’.