1. Song by Johnny Cash
PowerPoint by: Parker Johnson

2.  I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel Beneath the stains of time
I focus on the pain The feelings disappear
The only thing that's real You are someone else
I am still right here
The needle tears a hole
The old familiar sting What have I become
Try to kill it all away My sweetest friend
But I remember everything Everyone I know
Goes away in the end
What have I become
My sweetest friend And you could have it all
Everyone I know My empire of dirt
Goes away in the end I will let you down
I will make you hurt
And you could have it all
My empire of dirt If I could start again
I will let you down A million miles away
I will make you hurt I would keep myself
I would find a way
I wear this crown of thorns
Upon my liars chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair

3.  End Rhyme
 Repetition
 Slant Rhyme
 alliteration
 chorus

4.  What have I become
 My sweetest friend
 Everyone I know
 Goes away in the end
The words are an end rhyme because the end of
FRIEND sounds and is the same as END

5.  I will let you down
 I will make you hurt
This is repeated a few times throughout the song.

6.  I wear this crown of thorns
 Upon my liars chair
 Full of broken thoughts
 I cannot repair
Chair and Repair sound alike but yet in some
cases aren’t rhymes

7.  A Million Miles Away
 he is saying that he wants to start again
somewhere else in the world

8.  And you could have it all
 My empire of dirt
 I will let you down
 I will make you hurt
This is the chorus of the song

9.  Simile
 Symbolism
 Hyperbole

10.  My empire of dirt
He is saying that the only thing he has is dirt; or
nothing

11.  The feelings disappear
He is not happy anymore and he just doesn’t care
about anything anymore

12.  Beneath the stain of times
 The feelings disappear
He is exaggerating and saying that his memories
are not good and they are just stains in his
mind

13.  By Parker Johnson
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