Figures of speech in this lyrics

madness is what you demonstrate and that's exactly how anger works and operates man, you gotta have love just to set it straight take control of your mind and meditate let your soul gravitate to the love, y'all, y'all
people killin', people dyin' children hurt and you hear them cryin' can you practice what you preach? or would you turn the other cheek?
father, father, father us send some guidance from above 'cause people got me, got me questionin' where is the love (love)

the answer:

in the first part of the story running is all that matters to squeaky. running gives her confidence and defines who she is. at the beginning of the story she says that other kids call her mercury because she runs very fast. in the text she refers to herself as "miss quicksilver".

the line that provides the best evidence that squeaky has self-confidence is

" and i continue with my breathing exercise, strolling down broadway toward the ice cream man on 145th with not a care in the world cause i am miss quicksilver herself".

in the sonnet 116 written by william shakespeare we can analyze the symbolism and say that he reuses the idea of love like a guiding star for the sailor.

reading through the poem we find out that in the line 7 there is a metaphor for the lover that is heading through the life events by love itself .