Back from the Edge album that was released on 28 October 2016 by Columbia Records, and which comprises 17 tracks. The album debuted at the top the UK Albums Chart and the following year in September 2017. The analysing contains two purposes: To identify the type of figurative language in song lyric and to analyze the meaning of Figurative Language analysis of James Arthur’s song lyrics in the Back from The Edge album.
The figurative language and the meaning in the song lyrics in Back from the Edge Album are analyzed using a qualitative research technique. The first thing is reading and listening to the song lyrics as the main source. The second is to identify the data after listening to and reading the lyrics. Then, classify the data that will be used in the study.
From the study, it was found that the song lyrics in album Back from the Edge there are seven different forms of figurative language, along with the meaning of each type. Some of the figurative languages discovered include personification 1, metaphor 8, simile 3, hyperbole 8, metonymy 2, litotes 1, and irony 1. Back from the Edge album is discussing the meaning significance of each song in the song lyrics. Looking further into his 17 track that most of the song of Back from the Edge album were written by James Arthur himself that from the song Say you Won’t Let Go that became famous song in this album with beautiful theme about love where we can feel how emotional James was when singing this song. The musician discusses his personal struggles as well as a rarely seen side of himself.
Keywords: figurative language, song lyrics, meaning, james arthur.