This research is aimed at explaining kinds of figurative language on song topic material and to know the song topic selection which is appropriate based on curriculum 2013 in a textbook that published by Erlangga. The research used descriptive qualitative method. The research design for analyzing teaching material song used content analysis. The researcher used documentation technique of collecting the data. In analyzing the data, the researcher used Perrine’s theory. The steps of technique analyzing data used Miles and Huberman’s theory. The results in this research can concluded in four finding. First, data from song material in “Pathway to English” textbook consist of five songs. There are Happiness, Tell Laura I Love Her, Tell Tommy I Miss Him, Congratulation, and Yesterday. Second, based on the 12 types from theory, the researcher found five types of figurative language in the data. Third, the totals of figurative language are found 17 data in song material “Pathway to English” textbook. Fourth, the song topic selection based on curriculum shows that the songs are divided into several categories containing vocabulary-based songs or topic-based songs. The result from the vocabulary based on song topic there are expression, sacrifice of love, longing to someone, expression of congratulation and past experience. Based on the data finding above, the researcher can conclude that song material in the “Pathway to English” textbook is suitable based on curriculum, but there is some topic that shouldn’t be served for eleventh grades. For example the topic about love, it can make students don’t have a moral value. Nevertheless, there are song topics appropriate based on curriculum and textbook.