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DECONSTRUCTION
Over You,
by Ingrid Michaelson

Over, I'm so over you

The way that you look in a three-piece
suit
Over, I'm so over you
The way that you held me when
nobody else would
Maybe if I tell myself enough
Maybe if I do
I'll get over you
Maybe if I tell myself enough
Maybe if I do
I'll get all over you, you
All over you, you
Over, I'm so over you
The way that you laugh at everything
that I do
Over, I'm so over you
The way that you said that you'd
always be true
And maybe if I tell myself enough
Maybe if I do
I'll get over you
Maybe if I tell myself enough

Maybe if I do
I'll get all over you, you, you
Over you, you, over you
I'm falling around you
I'm falling around you
I'm falling around you
I'm falling around you
Maybe if I tell myself enough
I'm falling around you
Maybe if I do
I'm falling around you
Maybe if I tell myself enough
Maybe if I tell myself enough
I'm falling around you
Maybe if I do
I'm falling around you
Maybe if I tell myself enough
Maybe if I tell myself enough
Maybe if I tell myself enough...
I'm falling around you
Maybe if I tell myself enough
Maybe if I do

Verbal stage
In the first stanza the writer says Im so over you. In the second stanza it says
maybe. Maybe the writer will get over you. Later in the song, the writer says
that she is falling around you. There is a verbal contradiction of actually getting
over and falling for someone.

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Textual stage
It is said that the 'textual' stage of the method moves beyond individual phrases and
taxes a more overall view of the poem. At this second stage the critic is looking for
shifts or breaks in the continuity of the poem: these shifts reveal instabilities of
attitude, and hence the lack of a fixed and unified position.
It is understood that there are instabilities in the song as indicated in the grammar.
In the first line of the first stanza the writer says in present tense that Im so over
you. In the second stanza, however, the writer changes into future tense Ill get
over you.
Linguistic stage
The poem as its title suggests that the writer is over you. However, throughout the
poem, we see that the writer is remembering memories of you. The way that you
look in three-piece suit, The way you held me The way that you laugh. It
contradicts itself. The writer is obviously not over you, as she remembers so much
of you and that she resembles a person that is unsure whether she is over you or
not over you. She is saying Im over you only to implicate that she is not and
that she is actually in the phase of trying to get over you. It is proven by how the
writer ends the song, saying that maybe if I tell myself enough, maybe if I do.