Metaforer!

Metaforer er språklige bilder som står mellom linjene, i for et eksempel en sang. Metaforer gjør tekster mer spennende og gjør rom for tolking. Jeg har valgt en metafor fra Frank Zappa, fra en sang som heter "Drowning Witch"

Her er teksten til sangen:
There's a ship arriving too late
To save a drowning witch
She was swimmin' along
Tryin' to keep a date
With a Merchant Marine
Who told her he was really rich
But it doesn't matter no more...
She's on the ocean floor
'N the water's all green down there
'N it's not very clean down there
'N water snakes
'N rusty wrecks
Is all that she can see
As the light goes dim
And she's tryin' to swim
Will she make it?
(Boy, we sure hope so...) 
Not even a witch oughta be caught
On the bottom of America's spew-infested
Waterways, hey-hey...
She could get radiation all over her
She could mutate insanely...
She could mutate insanely... (that's right)
You know she could go on the freeway and grow up
to be 15 feet tall and scary-lookin'
And then...
Cars could crash all over the place
As a result of people with Hawaiian shirts on...
Lookin' up to see her face 
Sardines in her eyebrows...
Lobsters up 'n down her forehead
All of them HORRIBLY LARGE FROM RADIATION...
And smelling very bad
And DANGEROUS! 
Maybe a submarine could save her,
And bring her home to the Navy...
For some kind of ritual sacrifice...
I denne sangen tror jeg at "There's a ship arriving too late To save a drowning witch"  Er en av mange metaforer i denne sangen. Det er ikke lett å tolke hva Zappa mener med dette, da det er vanlig han å skrive litt merkelige sangtekster. Det er jo åpenbart at han ikke mener en ekte heks, men det kan for et eksempel være at han bruker "hekser" som en betegnelse for kvinner i denne sangen.