The researcher accomplishes that the song entitled Swing Life Away by Machine Gun Kelly has several types of figurative language. The analysis is aiming at two purposes; the first is to find out the types of figurative language in the song’s lyrics, and then the next is to describe what does the song contextually means. There are seven figure of languages, which Personification, Metaphor, Hyperbole, Litotes, Simile, Metonymy, and Irony.
In this study, qualitative research technique is employed to analyze the Figurative Language and contextual meaning depicted In Machine Gun Kelly’s Song “Swing Life Away”. The main step is listening and reading the lyrics as the primary source. After listening and reading the lyrics, the second thing that needs to be done is identifying data. Then proceed with classifying the data needed in the study.
From the analysis, it can be concluded that the figurative language has important part in this song lyrics. The figurative languages mostly use to analizing poetry, but song lyrics and poetry has some similarity because it has a rhyme in it. Even though the writer of this lyrics tell his childhood life trough the song, the listener of this song also can conclude the contextual meaning of this lyrics by themself by using figurative languages such as; the personification, hyperbole, irony, etc.
Keywords: Figurative Language, Swing Life Away, Machine Gun Kelly.