Lyric Analysis

The lyrics to my coursework song "You Don't Love Me Anymore" by "Weird" Al Yankovic are as follows

We've been together for so very long

But now things are changing, oh I wonder what's wrong?

Seems you don't want me around

The passion is gone and the flame's died down

I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem

That time that you made it with the whole hockey team

You used to think I was nice

Now you tell all your friends that I'm the Antichrist

Oh, why did you disconnect the brakes in my car?

That kind of thing is hard to ignore

Got a funny feeling you don't love me anymore

I knew that we were having problems when

You put those piranhas in my bathtub again

You're still the light of my life

Oh darling, I'm beggin', won't you put down that knife?

You know, I even think it's kinda cute the way

You poison my coffee just a little each day

I still remember the way that you laughed

When you pushed me down that elevator shaft

Oh, if you don't mind me asking, what's this poisonous cobra

Doing in my underwear drawer?

Sometime I get to thinking you don't love me any more

You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill

Now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will

You set my house on fire

You pulled out my chest hairs with an old pair of pliers

Oh, you think I'm ugly and you say that I'm cheap

You shaved off my eyebrows while I was asleep

You drilled a hole in my head

Then you dumped me in a drainage ditch and left me for dead

Oh, you know this really isn't like you at all

You never acted this way before

Honey, something tells me you don't love me any more, oh no no

Got a funny feeling you don't love me anymore

For the plot of my music video, I will be presenting the story the couple featured in the song, and how their relationship became tumultuous. The music video will consist of drawings (made by me) depicting the entire storyline.

The song is sung by "Weird" Al Yankovic, who is known to sing parodies of popular contemporary songs made by popular contemporary artists, with satirical references to popular culture and famous people. "Weird" Al himself was credited as the sole writer and producer of the song. The song (which was a single of his 1992 album "Off the Deep End") only did moderately well, as it peaked at number 26 on the single chart of the Canadian Magazine "The Record". This is mainly due to the fact that this specific song was not a parody, and only his parody songs were the most commercially successful songs and sold the most amount of copies.