Describing the mother's frantic efforts, the narrator compares the campaign to a losing game of Monopoly overseen by a deceitful angel.

During the third verse in particular, the narrator compares the final stage of a man's life to a winter, with death compared with "walking into the rain".

"Wildflower" is a ballad in which the narrator compares the beauty of his wife to a wildflower.

The narrator compares gambling to love relationships.

As she sings, the narrator compares her voice to the ocean's; though the woman mimicked the ocean, "it was she and not the sea we heard."

In this story, the narrator compares her own family with a neighbor's.

The narrator compares ordinary people to famous people.

In it, the male narrator compares his personality to that of his lover, saying that the two are like "cowboys and angels".

And doesn't the narrator compare Billy to Adam, the "upright barbarian," who has none of the sophisticated urbanity of civilization?

The narrator compares her lover, with a towel wrapped around his head, to a king.