A CONTEXTUAL MEANING IN SELECTED RAEF’S SONG LYRICS ON MERCY ALBUM

In social life, song is one of the ways to communicate with each other. Islamic English songs become popular in this era. One of them is song from Raef. Sometimes understanding the meaning of a song is not enough only use the dictionary, but also should see the context of language that is used. The aim of this research is to discover the contextual meaning in selected Raef’s song lyrics on Mercy album include the kind of their contexts through a contextual meaning theory of Pateda. This research focuses on ten songs, Alhamdu Lillah, Mercy, All About Me, More Than Me and You, Subhan Allah, Ramadan is Here, Trust, Dear America, My Life Matters and Who Are You songs. The method used in this research is qualitative and the data is taken from the internet. This research uses the document and observation as the technique to collect the data. The result of the research shows that there are twenty nine words or phrases contain contextual meaning in those songs. It is also found that those songs have four kinds of context. They are the context of situation, context of mood of speaker or listener, context of time, and context of purpose