Shiver by Lucy Rose (Nostalgia)

The song Shiver by Lucy Rose, is a song about a love that was bittersweet and hard to let go, despite the rough relationship that the couple shared. The singer uses allegory, metaphors, synecdoches, and symbolism to express this theme of bittersweet love throughout the song.

The song begins with, "We broke, everything that was right. We both enjoyed a good fight,"  she uses past tense to show that what they had, is now gone. It was a relationship that they had enjoyed and hated; living and learning from this relationship. To "Sewed all the holes we had to breathe. To make the other one live," is ambiguity for suffocating each other in their unhealthy relationship. They wanted the other to hurt, just as much as they had through the times they were together. It could also represent that in troubled times, they would patch up their "holes", meaning that they were each others support and savior. The holes is symbolism for the points where they meet a rough patch, or not getting along well, and in order to "breathe again", they would have to help each other to remain in that relationship. This song brings a sense of nostalgia, because the singer is looking back at the times where they were together. Whether it was good times, like, "I loved the way you looked at me. And I miss the way you made me feel." or times where they had to patch the holes in order to breathe.  To " Shiver like I use to," is a metaphor for getting that feeling of falling in love again.

Though to say that you will shiver again, is to say that you are forcing yourself to feel those kinds of feelings again. Or is it that she is saying that she will fall in love with him again, in due time. This then becomes dramatic irony, because the singer realizes that despite the fact that their relationship is over, and time may have passed, she realizes that she misses being in a relationship with that person.  She continues to say that, "We stole every moment we had to make the other one feel bad. And we hoped that we could be what we knew, it never turn out to be real." Meaning that living in that relationship was like a dream, that the love seemed like an illusion to cover the moments that were sour. Despite all of this, the singer wants to portray a good image for what their relationship really was by repeating the phrase, "Ill shiver like I use to." Which is the snyecdoche for a love that had taught lessons and left an impression on her forever. In her last statements, she continues to sing, "And if we turn back time, could we learn to live right." A rhetorical question to wanting to know that if they had gone back in time, knowing what they know now, would they be able to make it work without having to patch up holes. To have a relationship that will not have "holes" in the first place. The theme of this song could be nostalgia, because the singer talks about a time in which she wishes to return to. She dwells on the memories of their relationship, and she acknowledges the things that could have been done to save their relationship. It a bittersweet song about a love, hate relationship.