A LEXICAL MEANING ANALYSIS IN “MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE DISENCHANTED” SONG LYRICS

Abstract

This study conducts a rigorous lexical semantic analysis of My Chemical Romance’s “Disenchanted” lyrics. The researcher identifies the core relations in lexical meaning by using Saeed’s (2009) theory. How antonymic pairs establish conceptual tension (love–dying), synonymy reinforces violation semantics (spit on–shoved), hyponymy structures ruin taxonomy (broken→broke/hungry), and polysemy enables context-free sense extension (roar→cheering). The results demonstrate that a total of 16 data findings were identified and categorized into four semantic relations, revealing systematic lexical patterning independent of pragmatic interpretation. These findings reveal that each of the four core lexical relations (antonymy, synonymy, hyponymy, and polysemy) displays consistent and systematic patterning within the lyrics, thereby offering a structured model for conducting semantic analysis of song lyrics.