What is freewill? Many people choose to “dance on strings” instead of being their own person and making their own choices.  This song explains what freewill is about using many literary elements throughout such as rhyme and metaphor.

The whole song has a rhyme scheme of ABAB. Examples of this are “voice” and “choice” or “kill” and “freewill.”  This helps the song flow better and makes it have a certain beat to it.  That changes the way you perceive the lyrics.

This song uses metaphor along with a lot of description to express his feelings about how people are always trying to be someone who they aren’t.  An example of this is when he says, “A planet of playthings/We dance on the strings.” In addition the singer says over and over again in different ways is not everything is going to be done for you and life will be hard, “You can’t pray for heaven’s unearthly estate.”  He explains how even if everything is going against you, you can’t give up: “The cards are stacked against him.  They weren’t born in Lotusland.”

Using rhythm and metaphors throughout the song helped the singer show the theme and meaning to his song. That theme is that life will be hard but you have to be yourself and create your own path, not follow others. This message is important because being who you are will make you happy.