AN ANALYSIS OF SEMANTIC LEXICAL AND CONTEXTUAL MEANING ON BAND RADIOHEAD SONGS

Language is comprised of discrete components including sounds, words, phrases, and other utterances. Basically, it's a huge accomplishment that humans can recognize speech as a collection of distinct sounds. Statement of Problem, The preferred approach to use this research to address a number of significant issues, the writer divided the issues into two questions as follow : First, what are the Radiohead Songs lexical meaning?, second, what are the Radiohead Songs contextual meaning?. The research method of this study was a qualitative. The method of this study describes the researched approach, data sources, data collection and data analysis. The lyrics to be analyzed consist of, first, Creep from album Pablo Honey (1992), second, True Love Waits from album A Moon Shaped Pool (2016). After collecting data from the "Radiohead" texts, researchers analyzed them according to their research priorities. The researcher gives a sign to understand about one word and another word that is analyzed. First stanza or tier is T1, the researcher puts a mark on the lyrics or the first fascia is F1, “When you were here before” this fascia is present in F1 and T1. The word "before" in fascia is analyzed in a lexical sense and refers to the period preceding a particular event or time. After discussing the data, researchers found that the lyrics of Radiohead songs used lexical and contextual meanings. Researchers conclude that when reading terms, readers need to know not only the lexical meaning, but also the contextual meaning