"Shame" Avett Brothers

The subject in this song is shame. The tone is focused on how shame is overpowering and creates weight on his shoulders. Three words I saw in the song that demonstrated the tone were overwhelming, fall apart, and lift. Overwhelming displays how things are hard to handle and there is a lot of weight being placed on his shoulders due to the "boatloads" of shame he is experiencing. Fall apart merely exhibits how things aren't going right and how they are falling apart around him; it shows how hard it is to maintain control. Lift is a unique and important word in the song because it's demonstrating how he is begging to have the weight taken off his shoulders. Lift is a word that demonstrates a physical action, yet "weight on someone's shoulders" is simply figurative, rather than literal. This exhibits how severe the situation is and how desperate he is to get rid of the pain and shame.