"You belong with me" by Steven Curtis Chapman is a love song that employs metaphor mostly. The extended metaphor of comparing his woman and himself to Tarzan and Jane and plenty of other little metaphors for good measure. Each of these metaphors like the light and dark or the land and sea metaphors emphasize the extreme differences between the two of them, but also each choice depicts two things that are both neccesry and intertwined. The waves crash upon the beach, night turns to day, and the sun shines through the rain clouds. Despite their differences they are both part of a whole. Together they provide the balance so readily prevelant in our natural world. Chapmans's assertion is that he and his lady were ment to be together. They are the real life manifestation of all the people shipping (not human trafficking) that exists between Tarzan and Jane. They are the perfect blending of opposites. This use of metaphor through the allusion to Tarzan and Jane makes the assertion easy to accept. If he is night and she's day and all these other things are true it seems perfectly natural that the two of them are meant to be together.
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