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This study discussed about An Analysis of Lexical and Contextual Meanings of “Nekmese Tafen Pah’’ song lyric. Semantic is the branches of linguistics. Therefore, the writer was interested in analyzing the kinds of meaningsof‘’Nekmese Tafen Pah’’ song lyric. The problem of this study (1) What are the lexical and contextual meanings of ‘’Nekmese Tafen Pah’’ song lyric? (2) What are the dominant types of ‘’Nekmese Tafen Pah’’ song lyric? The writer takes lyrics song from the album. This study uses a descriptive qualitative method because the writer would analysis and interpret the research object of Eddy D. Tahoni lyric song. The step to obtain the data is by collecting sources of the data from Eddy D. Tahoni lyric song and from internet. After that she selects the songs which contain of semantic, reads and listen to the lyric to understand the content of the songs conducts and analyzes the collected data and makes conclusion. The result of this research is as follows: (1) related to the lexical meaning, while (2) related to the contextual meaning. The result of this study showed that there are 31 sentences that categorized as lexical meaning, 11 sentences of contextual meaning, 10 sentences of grammatical meaning, 26 sentences of conceptual meaning, 23 sentences of dennotative meaning ant the last is only 5 sentences for connotative meaaning. The writer expects this research will be usefull for the other researchers who are eager to know more about semantics. Moreover, semantic is an important branch of linguistics that is interesting to be studied, especially when it is applied to literary works, such us songs or poem etc.