Everyone in life has dreams they want to achieve at some point in life, but some do not put in the work and effort to achieve those dreams. Patty Griffin’s “Sweet Lorraine” and Emmylou Harris’s “Red Dirt Girl,” the speakers want to achieve, but they do not have any support from anyone. Both songs have taught me how lucky I am to have the support system, that I have because having a good support system and maintaining a positive attitude is very important and will carry me a long way. In Patty Griffin’s “Sweet Lorraine,” the speaker really focuses on her parent’s being mean to her, not having a support system, and wanting to believe in magic and follow her dreams. Her mother was never home (line 12), and on the day she moved, her mother threw stones at her (line 15). The way the speaker’s parents treated her, the speaker felt she did not have a support system and she was in this world alone. The speaker wanted to believe in magic, but she says it is harder and harder to (line 26). For someone to follow their dreams, they have to have some type of support system and believe in some type of magic or dream because if they don’t then really they have nothing to go after in life. The tone is very sad; it’s only your hope and your heart that gets killed (line 25). The speaker had it rough for a young…show more content… The speaker told us how she really did not have anyone to turn to. Her dad turned mean and her mama leaned hard (line 28). Her brother never made it farther than Vietnam (line 13); after he died she went down because she really cared and loved her brother. She got mixed up with the wrong boy and got in trouble but she tried to love him but did not take (line 29, 33). The speaker had a helpless and sad life. She killed herself to escape her problems, but in life everyone has problems, but that is no reason to take your
