Secrets by OneRepublic

I need another story

Somethin to get off my chest

My life gets kinda boring

Need somethin that I can confess

'Til all my sleeves are stained red

From all the truth that I said

Come by it honestly I swear

Thought you saw me wink,no

I've been on the brink, so

Tell me what you want to hear

Somethin that will light those years

Sick of all the insincere

I'm gonna give all my secrets away

This time, don't need another perfect lie

Don't care if critics ever jump in line

I'm gonna give all my secrets away

My God, amazining how we got this far

It's like we're chasin all those stars

Who's drivin shiny big black cars

And every day I see the news

All the problems that we could solve

And when a situation rises

Just write it into an album

Send it straight to gold

I don't really like my flow, no, so

Tell me what you want to hear

Something that will light those years

Sick of all the insincere

So I'm gonna give all my secrets away

This time, don't need another perfect lie

Don't care if critics ever jump in line

I'm gonna give all my secrets away

Oh, got no reason, got no shame

Got no family I can blame

Just don't let me disappear

I'ma tell you everything

So tell me what you want to hear

Something that will light those years

Sick of all the insincere


The first stanza has a A,B,C,D,E rhyme scheme. The second stanza has a A,B,C,C rhyme scheme. The third and seventh stanzas have a A,B,A,C rhyme scheme. The fourth, eighth, and tenth stanzas have a rhyme scheme of A,B,C. The fifth stanza has a rhyme scheme of A,B,B,C,D. The sixth stanza has a rhyme scheme of A,B,C,D. The nineth stanza has a rhyme scheme of A,A,B,C.




The chorus is repeated a couple of times.



There is assonance in the second stanza with no and so. The third, seventh, and tenth stanzas have assonance with hear, years, and insincere. The fifth stanza has assonance far, stars, and cars. The nineth stanza has assonance with shame and blame.



There is pause at the end of each stanza where they let the music play for a second.



The first stanza has alliteration with "sleeves are stained". In stanzas four and eight there are alliteration with "care if critics".



To me this song means that the world is to cought up in lies and money to relize what is really going on. There are to many people that are too obssessed with themselves to realize anything else.