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Maps by Maroon 5: Song Interpretation

The document provides an analysis of the song "Maps" by Maroon 5 from four perspectives: 1) Explicit meaning - the song is about following a map to find a lost love. 2) Implicit meaning - the song uses exaggeration and metaphor to represent deeply missing the person and life they shared. 3) Moral - the song is about not giving up on something important even when it has derailed. 4) Personal opinion - the author believes the song is from the perspective of a boy grieving the death of his girlfriend, regretting that he won't have the conversations and music they enjoyed together.

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Maps by Maroon 5: Song Interpretation

The document provides an analysis of the song "Maps" by Maroon 5 from four perspectives: 1) Explicit meaning - the song is about following a map to find a lost love. 2) Implicit meaning - the song uses exaggeration and metaphor to represent deeply missing the person and life they shared. 3) Moral - the song is about not giving up on something important even when it has derailed. 4) Personal opinion - the author believes the song is from the perspective of a boy grieving the death of his girlfriend, regretting that he won't have the conversations and music they enjoyed together.

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Louielyn P.

Palustre 10-A

Song Interpretation

Maps by Maroon 5

I. Explicit
Based on the song if I’m going to understand it in its literal sense, the person is going to
follow the map that leads him/her to the person he/she loves no matter where that person is.
Though the person did everything for the one he/she loved, still they ended up losing each other
and wants to follow him/her wherever his/her loved one might be.

II. Implicit
On the other hand, if you’re going to understand the song line by line, it seems the song
has a deeper meaning. Comparing it to its explicit meaning, the song has an extreme
exaggeration. Just like in the line “I hear your voice in my sleep at night” would be a little bit
scary if the person you long is already gone for you can’t literally hear a voice. This only means
that he really misses her so much to the extent that he is being driven crazy by the voices.
Another line is “I miss the taste of a sweeter life”. There’s no such a life you can taste nor can
you tell what it tastes like. So the deeper meaning has to be that “sweet life” he misses is the life
they shared together. And lastly, the line “we had it all” was somewhat exaggerated as well since
you can’t have everything in life and that everything he/she is talking about was all that they had
and now that they would never have.

III. Moral
The song is not about giving up on a relationship after it is being derailed and getting
back on track. It’s about people go through a lot of things and step on others and we all make
mistakes. It’s kind of more about not giving up on something, even though maybe we should.

IV. Personal Opinion


Based on my opinion, this song is from the boy’s point of view. After the girl’s death, he
starts to feel the pain, he starts to get hurt, and that’s when he is at his worst time. He was always
there for her when there was anything, she just never lost him, and so she didn’t feel this pain.
The boy was there for all her hardest times, but now when he had to go through her death, she
wasn’t there because she was the one dying. He misses all the conversations and the songs they
would play together. He maybe thought they would last forever. And then he says he took a fall
which meant he was at his worst state for he regrets seeing her dying. I personally like this song
because it makes me change my opinion about you shouldn’t make so many people important in
your life because they won’t be there for you when you’re always there for them. I rather prefer
be with those persons I love than regret not being with them and not being able to get to know
them ever in my life.

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