Simile Song #1: Hero/Heroine by Boys Like Girls

Hero/Heroine

Boys Like Girls

It's too late baby, there's no turning around
I've got my hands in my pocket and my head in a cloud
This is how I do
When I think about you
I never thought that you could break me apart
I keep a sinister smile and a hole in my heart
You want to get inside
Then you can get in line
But not this time

Cause you caught me off guard
Now I'm running and screaming

I feel like a hero and you are my heroine

I won't try to philosophize
I'll just take a deep breath and I'll look in your eyes
This is how I feel
And it's so surreal
I got a closet filled up to the brim
With the ghosts of my past and their skeletons
And I don't know why
You'd even try
But I won't lie

You caught me off guard
Now I'm running and screaming

I feel like a hero and you are my heroine
Do you know that your love is the sweetest sin?

And I feel a weakness coming on
It never felt so good to be so wrong
Had my heart on lock down
And then you turned me around
And I feel like a new born child
Every time I get a chance to see you smile
It's not complicated
I was so jaded

And you caught me off guard
Now I'm running and screaming

I feel like a hero and you are my heroine
Do you know that your love is the sweetest sin?

(I feel like a hero and you are my heroine)
And I feel a weakness coming on
Never felt so good to be so wrong
Had my heart on lockdown
And then you turned me around
(Do you know that your love is the sweetest sin?)
I feel like a new born child
Every time I get a chance to see you smile
It's not complicated
I was so jaded

(I feel like a hero and you are my heroine)
And I feel a weakness coming on
Never felt so good to be so wrong
Had my heart on lockdown
And then you turned me around
(Do you know that your love is the sweetest sin?)
I feel just like a new born child
Every time I get a chance to see you smile
It's not complicated
I was so jaded

Analysis:

The song "Hero/Heroine" is centered around one simile. The speaker sings "I feel like a hero", to a girl, and tells her that "you are my heroine" (a metaphor). This girl turned the speaker's life around, and changed him from a "jaded" man who had very negative views on love due to his past experiences to someone genuinely happy. She makes him feel alive and optimistic, and by "breaking him apart" from his rough past with lovers, she inspired him to be more open to love. She makes him feel strong and alive, like a "hero". There is another important simile in this song that describes the effect that the girl has on the speaker. He sings, "I feel like a newborn child every time I get a chance to see you smile". Everytime the girl smiles, the speaker feels alive and happy. With her love, the girl inspires the speaker to ditch his gloomy outlooks on love and replaces it with feelings of warmth and optimism. He views love in a much brighter way because of her.