Please could you help with song choices for an English assessment

[JMSA]

‘Morning all
My teen has an English assignment and I’d love to hear your song choices (the assignment is for English but with a music theme!). I thought about The Drugs Don’t Work by the Verve, but I’m not sure. Ideally it would be quite a ‘meaty’ song so that we can really analyse the lyrics!
Thanks very much

Here’s the brief

Photo will hopefully appear soon

should have put a ring on it

Maybe ‘All Apologies’ by Nirvana? It’s an apology for being himself and touches on his addictions, suicide attempts etc It has plenty of language devices you can analyse too. Or some My Chemical Romance (maybe ‘The Light Behind Your Eyes’ which Gerard Way wrote for his daughter after he’d relapsed in case he ended up dying and leaving her alone.

Pretty much anything by Pulp would fit the brief and give you plenty to work with. That Jarv can write. Sounds like a fun assignment!

Divine Comedy songs have some amazing lyrics - Sunrise is about the Irish troubles, you may also find Generation Sex works for the assignment, although lots of 90s references you may need to explain to a teen!

Simon & Garfunkel A Most Peculiar Man - people dismissing someone as odd who ends up killing himself, and Richard Cory on similar lines. The lesson for both being that assumptions are made about people but you don't know what is going on inside their head. Paul Simon is my favourite lyricist.

Yellow
Handbags and Gladrags
One Last Kiss
Perfect Day
Vicious

Anything on Parallel Lines by Blondie
Anything on Jagged Little Pill

Everybody’s free to wear sunscreen - baz luhrmann

Pink Floyd - Another brick in the wall................................

There’s also ‘Everyday Robots’ by Damon Albarn about digital addiction

Kelly Clarkson - stronger
Katie Perry - Roar
Pink - So What

Ed Sheeran A Team
RESPECT Aretha Franklin
We didn't start the fire - Billy Joel
Pretty Hurts - Beyonce

Surprised nobody’s suggested it yet - Rehab - Amy Winehouse

Hurt jonny cash

Some of the folk stuff, whilst not cool, could be quite fun and give quite a lot of content and make it quite easy - Pound a Week Rise by Siobhan Miller for example

Thank you all so much. At work but will read properly in a bit.

The fray....how to save a life maybe?? Always seems to have a good story line for the song

Hi Ren, by Ren - amazing lyrics and fits the bill.

Message to you Rudy, Specials.
Under the bridge, RHCP
White lines, Grandmaster Flash

While Johnny Cash did an amazing cover of the song, Hurt is by Nine Inch Nails.

We never got to do anything as interesting as this in English when I was at school. It felt like it was all bloody DH Lawrence (yawn).

There’s always Heroin by the Velvet Underground if you want to go with the drugs theme. It does what it says on the tin.

A whole book has been written about Wichita Lineman so it would be a good choice in the love song category.

The A Team by Ed Sheeran
The Pretender by Lewis Capaldi
The Man by Taylor Swift
My Fault by Shaboozey
Morning Elvis by Florence & The Machine
3am by Halsey
Flowers by Miley Cyrus
Mr Brightside by The Killers
Fast Car by Jonas Blue

White Lines (Don’t Don’t do it)!

Sorted for Es and Whizz by Pulp!