1. Dwayne’s lyric
presentation
Life’s a dance by: John Michael
Montgomery

2. lyrics
• When I was fourteen I was falling fast • Life's a dance you learn as you go
For a blue eyed girl in my homeroom class Sometimes you lead, sometimes you follow
Trying to find the courage to ask her out
Was like trying to get oil from a waterspout Don't worry about what you don't know
What she would have said I can't say Life's a dance you learn as you go
I never did ask and she moved away
But I learned something from my blue eyed Life's a dance you learn as you go
girl
Sink or swim you gotta give it a whirl Sometimes you lead, sometimes you follow
Don't worry about what you don't know
Life's a dance you learn as you go Life's a dance you learn as you go
Sometimes you lead, sometimes you follow
Don't worry about what you don't know Life's a dance you learn as you go
Life's a dance you learn as you go Sometimes you lead, sometimes you follow
Don't worry about what you don't know
The longer I live the more I believe Life's a dance you learn as you go
You do have to give if you wanna receive
There's a time to listen, a time to talk
And you might have to crawl even after you Life's a dance
walk Life's a dance
Had sure things blow up in my face Life's a dance
Seen the long shot, win the race
Been knocked down by the slamming door Take a chance on love
Picked myself up and came back for more Life's a dance
You learn as you go

3. Musical Devices
• End rhyme
• Slant rhyme
• Alliteration
• Chorus
• Repetition

4. enD rhyMe
• This is end rhyme because…
• Trying to find the courage to ask her out
Was like trying to get oil from a
waterspout

5. slant rhyMe
• This is slant rhyme because…
• When I was fourteen I was falling fast
For a blue eyed girl in my homeroom
class

6. alliteration
• This is alliteration because…
• There's a time to listen, a time to talk

7. chorus
• This is the chorus because it repeats…
• Life's a dance you learn as you go
Sometimes you lead, sometimes you
follow
Don't worry about what you don't know
Life's a dance you learn as you go

8. repetition
• This is repetition because it repeats this
three times…
• Life's a dance
Life's a dance
Life's a dance

9. Figurative language
• Metaphor

10. Metaphor
• This is a metaphor because…
• Life's a dance you learn as you go

11. iDioM
• This is an idiom because you cant get oil
from a waterspout
• Was like trying to get oil from a waterspout

12. syMbolisM
• This is symbolism because…
• Been knocked down by the slamming door
Picked myself up and came back for more

13. visual
• This is visual because something blew up
in his face
• Had sure things blow up in my face

14. touch
• This is touch because the door hits him
• Been knocked down by the slamming door

15. hearing
• This is hearing because he listens
There's a time to listen, a time to talk