Music Presents Success

Music can show the message that failure brings success.  There are lyrics and stories to many songs that display this meaning.  One example would be the rock opera The Wall by Pink Floyd follows the story line that failure can bring success.  The protagonist Pink fails continuously fails throughout his life.  In school Pink fails dealing with teachers who are against him and every action he takes.  As Pink grows older, he fails his mother who is overprotective of him when starts relationships.  Pink also fails at his job when he has a mental breakdown and isolates himself from the world by mentally building a wall.  At the end he finally brings his thoughts together on everything he has failed and tears down his wall.  Pink found success through his failures when he reunites himself again with the world.  Along with The Wall there are also songs about people failing with relationships only to succeed from them by becoming stronger.  The song Throwing Stones by Paula Cole demonstrates these actions.  The person who has been weakened by the relationship states all of the failures he or she has received in the relationship such as being lied to, suffering, and not being able to speak for him or herself.  The person succeeds through the failure though as he or she swears to keep fighting or "throw stones" till the end.  The person also admits to becoming stronger, "my inner visions, dulled and darkened" when he or she comes to his or her senses of what is right and how to succeed in this struggle.  Succeeding through failure is present in the words of music.