Enchanted - Taylor Swift

"Enchanted"
  Taylor Swift

There I was again tonight
Forcing laughter, faking smiles
Same old tired lonely place

Walls of insincerity,
Shifting eyes and vacancy
Vanished when I saw your face

All I can say is it was enchanting to meet you

Your eyes whispered "Have we met? "
Across the room your silhouette
Starts to make its way to me
The playful conversation starts
Counter all your quick remarks
Like passing notes in secrecy

And it was enchanting to meet you
All I can say is I was enchanted to meet you

This night is sparkling, don't you let it go
I'm wonderstruck, blushing all the way home
I'll spend forever wondering if you knew
I was enchanted to meet you

The lingering question kept me up
2 AM, who do you love?
I wonder 'til I'm wide awake
And now I'm pacing back and forth
Wishing you were at my door
I'd open up and you would say, "Hey,
It was enchanting to meet you,
All I know is I was enchanted to meet you"

This night is sparkling, don't you let it go
I'm wonderstruck, blushing all the way home
I'll spend forever wondering if you know
This night is flawless, don't you let it go
I'm wonderstruck, dancing around all alone
I'll spend forever wondering if you knew
I was enchanted to meet you

This is me praying that
This was the very first page
Not where the story line ends
My thoughts will echo your name
Until I see you again
These are the words I held back
As I was leaving too soon
I was enchanted to meet you

Please don't be in love with someone else
Please don't have somebody waiting on you
Please don't be in love with someone else
Please don't have somebody waiting on you

This night is sparkling, don't you let it go
I'm wonderstruck, blushing all the way home
I'll spend forever wondering if you know
This night is flawless, don't you let it go
I'm wonderstruck, dancing around all alone
I'll spend forever wondering if you knew
I was enchanted to meet you

Please don't be in love with someone else
Please don't have somebody waiting on you

Little Green analysis

In the song “Little Green”, Joni Mitchell, uses bittersweet imagery, emotional characterization, and pure symbolism in order to convey the hard times and sacrifices involved with parting with a child or a loved one.

Mitchell uses many different forms of imagery throughout the song “Little Green” to help the listener better understand the sacrifices this woman had to make for her child. “So you sign all the papers in the family name/ you’re sad and you’re sorry but you’re not ashamed.” expresses the difficulties this women had to go through to make sure her child would be able to live a good life. She did not want to give her child up but she knew it would be better off for little green and did not feel ashamed for the choice she had to make knowing “sometimes there’ll be sorrow”. In hope of getting her spouse back the women wrote a letter to him saying “Her eyes are blue” so he would know something about his daughter. This letter helped not only the child’s father but the reader be able to picture the daughter that was soon becoming an orphan to “have a happy ending”. The imagery in the song also helps to show how beautiful little green is by comparing her to “the Northern lights” and “the color when the spring is born”.

Emotional characterization is used in many places throughout this Joni Mitchell song to express the sad yet faithful emotions this woman has to deal with. She has faith that by giving her daughter up for adoption she will have a better life and it will be better off that way. She understands that “sometimes there’ll be sorrow” but she also understands that it is what Little Green needs to grow up and have a good life. Although it wont be perfect it is best for little green to be adopted so she can grow up in the right kid of environment. “There’ll be icicles and birthday clothes/ and sometimes there’ll be sorrow” because as every year goes on little green has to get older and her mother has to deal with the pain of her not being with her daughter. “Your sad and your sorry” shows that the mother does not completely want to give her daughter up but she knows that its right. She is upset about this because she loves her daughter and wishes she could be the one to watch her grow older.

    Pure symbolism is used through out this song to show the symbolism of little green and her mother to the listener. “Call her green and the winters cannot fade her” symbolises that little green will live a good and happy life. When Mitchell says “Little green, hes a non- conformer” it symbolises the way her father is and why he is not around. No matter what the mother tells the father he will not change his ways. “Little green, have a happy ending” symbolises that in the long run she will have a better life with someone who is ready to take care of a child rather than a mother who is not. Little green is compared to “the nights when the norther lights perform” to symbolise her beauty and the beautiful women she will become. 

    In the Joni Mitchell song “Little Green” many forms of symbolism, imagery, and characterization are portrayed throughout the lyrics. These literary devices help hide the message of a mother giving up her daughter. Although it is a hidden story in the song it shows the hardships you have to go through to make such a life turning decision.