Knee Deep

Everyone needs to "put the world away for a minute" and the song "Knee Deep" by the Zac Brown Band helps anybody do exactly that. This song is a cheery country tune which exemplifies how the speaker found his "own kind of paradise". The artist uses personification: "Sunshine gonna wash my blues away", "mind on a permanent vacation", "the ocean is my only medication"; It shows how everything is surreal in his paradise. He uses parallel structure in the chorus of the song saying "never been so happy never felt so high" which really sets the tone of the poem. Metaphor is used to describe the sun as a "fire in the sky" which explains how perfect everything is and why he never wants to leave. Alliteration is evident in the line "It's a sweet sweet life livin' by the salty sea" which depicts where everyone should take themselves to relax even if they are just escaping from their own mind. The mood of the song is light and delighted as the speaker is in paradise for a while. The theme of this poem is to take some time to relax and escape the stresses of the world "for a minute". The Zac Brown Band uses many forms of poetic devices to illustrate the need for escape and to take a mental or physical vacation.


Gonna put the world away for a minute
Pretend I don't live in it
Sunshine gonna wash my blues away
Had sweet love but I lost it
Got too close so I fought it
Now I'm lost in the world tryin to find me a better place

Wishin' I was
Knee deep in the water somewhere
got the blue sky, breeze and it don't seem fair
the only worry in the world
is the tide gonna reach my chair
Sunrise, there's a fire in the sky
never been so happy
never felt so high
and I think I might have found me my own kind of paradise

Wrote a note, said "Be back in a minute"
Bought a boat and I sailed off in it
Don't think anybody's gonna miss me anyway
Mind on a permanent vacation
The ocean is my only medication
Wishin' my condition ain't ever gonna go away

Now I'm knee deep in the water somewhere
Got the blue sky breeze blowin' wind through my hair
Only worry in the world
is the tide gonna reach my hair
Sunrise, there's a fire in the sky
never been so happy
never felt so high
and I think I might have found my own kind of paradise

This champagne shore washin' over me
It's a sweet sweet life livin' by the salty sea
One day you can be as lost as me
Change your geography and maybe you might be

Knee deep in the water somewhere
got the blue sky breeze blowin' wind through my hair
only worry in the world
is the tide gonna reach my chair
Sunrise, there's a fire in the sky
never been so happy
never felt so high
and I think I might have found me my own kind of paradise

Come on in
the waters nice
find yourself a little slice
grab a backpack
otherwise you'll never know until you try
when you lose yourself
you find a key to paradise