Performance based on song

Juliana gave me an interesting assignment this week: to take a song, and to go through it, section by section, and identify the emotion that is being portrayed. And once you've done that, identify physical states which can be used in performance to portray those emotions. I think that I've always thought about performance, but never from an emotional point of view, only from a "That would be cool onstage" point of view. But thinking about it, none of the great shows that I've seen were great because of the flash that they did; it was the small, emotional cues in the music and body language that did it. Dave Matthews and Eddie Vedder I think both do this extremely well. They really sink their entire beings into each line, and that's what makes a good performer.