When people sit down to listen to their favorite CDs, read their favorite boks, or watch the latest blockbuster flick to reach cinemas, deconstruction is not an issue. However, behind nearly every lyrical verse, haunting between the lines of every chapter, and silently spoken by every actor is a type of metaphor, a method of expressing something without directly saying it. In the 20th century, Jacques Derrida gave this definition a word: deconstruction.
For instance, when the lead singer of Cake speaks such lyrics as those exhibited in "The Distance" (He's going the distance/He's going f…
