"Dare You To Move" by Switchfoot
Welcome to the planet
Welcome to existence
Everyone's here
Everyone's here
Everybody's watching you now
Everybody waits for you now
What happens next
What happens next
[Chorus]
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened before
Welcome to the fallout
Welcome to resistance
The tension is here
Tension is here
Between who you are and who you could be
Between how it is and how it should be
[Chorus]
Maybe redemption has stories to tell
Maybe forgiveness is right where you fell
Where can you run to escape from yourself?
Where you gonna go?
Where you gonna go?
Salvation is here
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened
Today never happened
Today never happened before
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOTcr9wKC-o
The song "Dare You To Move" resembles a ballad because of the characteristics of the song. Folk ballds include dramatization of a single incident,little reflection or expression of sentiment,dialogue or questions and answers,simple beat and uncomplicated pattern,use of refrain,use of burden,tendency of suggest rather than directly state, and it's based on actual events. The artist of this song seems sentimental to what he is saying. The lyrics are strong, but are also simple. There is repetition of the refrain, which says that those thoughts and sayings are very important. When saying, "I dare you," it means he is not demanding anything. He is suggesting. All of these characteristics resembles a ballad.
