Our songs aren't metaphorical, normally: they're literal in their interpretation.

Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification.

As long as you continue to have new songs, there's usually some new topic or something to present.

My dad was president of the volunteer fire department, which was within walking distance to our house. I spent several days of each week there with him - any time the whistle blew, he went. It was truly inspiring to watch him lead that way.

The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics.

A literal view of the Bridge of Sighs is beautiful in itself, but our educational interpretation declared that the bridge was so named because it was where convicted prisoners had their final view of the city.