The song describes a man who seems to find comfort in painful relationships and situations. He doesn't know why he loves women who hurt him or why his life feels like a brokenhearted country song. Throughout the song, he suggests that perhaps he simply enjoys or gets pleasure from experiencing pain. The refrain reinforces this theme, with the man claiming that sometimes he thinks he gets off on the pain.

1. Get Off on the Pain
By: Gary Allan
By: Austin Baker

2. Lyrics
• I don't know why I love women
• That love to do me wrong
• Don't know why my life sounds like
• A heart broke country song
• I ain't really happy
• Until the sky starts driving rain
• Maybe I just get off on the pain
• My whole life I been picking fights
• There ain't no way to win
• There’s a hundred scars, I should have run away
• Now tattooed on my skin
• There's a side of me that just won't stop
• Dancin' in the flame
• Maybe I just get off on the pain’
• Cause I love the long shots and the left out lost causes
• Hanging out in the back of the pack with the dark horses
• I ride the wrong road just as fast as I can
• God knows there's no one else to blame
• Sometimes I think I get off on the pain
• Wake up every morning
• A thousand miles from home
• Praying for forgiveness
• For this aching in my bones
• It would be so easy
• To find a better way
• Oh but I know I'll never change’
• Cause I love the long shots and the left out lost causes
• Hanging out in the back of the pack with the dark horses
• I ride the wrong road just as fast as I can
• God knows there's no one else to blame
• Sometimes I think I get off on the pain’
• Cause I love the long shots and the left out lost causes
• Hanging out in the back of the pack with the dark horses
• I ride the wrong road just as fast as I can
• God knows there's no one else to blame
• I know I'm the only one to blame
• Sometimes I think I get off on the pain Get off on the pain

3. Music Devices
• End Rhyme
• Slant Rhyme
• Internal Rhyme
• Repetition
• Refrain/ Chorus

4. End Rhyme
• Proof…..
• “Until the sky starts driving rain”
• “Maybe I just get off on the pain”
• Explain…..
• This is an end rhyme because rain and pain
are at the end and they rhyme.

5. Slant Rhyme
• Proof…
• “To find a better way”
• “Oh but I know I’ll never change”
• Explain…..
• Way and change sort of rhyme thus making
this a slant rhyme

6. Internal Rhyme
• Proof…
• “Don’t really know why my life sounds”
• Explain….. Why and my are in the middle of
the line and they rhyme.

7. Repetition
• Proof……
• “Maybe I just get off on the pain”
• Explain….. This verse is repeated throught the
song making it a repetition.

8. Refrain/Chorus
• Proof…..
• Maybe I just get off on the pain.
• Explain…
• This is chorus because it is repeated in this
song many times…

9. Figurative Language
• Simile
• Personification
• Symbolism

10. Simile
• Proof…..
• Don’t know why my life sounds like a heart
broke country song.
• Explain….
• In this line it uses like to compare two things,
therefore making this a simile.

11. personification
• Proof…..
• Until the sky starts driving rain.
• Explain…
• This is a personification because the sky is
driving the rain, thus making this a
personification.

12. Symbolism
• Proof…..
• There’s a hundred scars, I should have run
away now tattooed on my skin.
• Explain…..

13. Imagery
• Touch
• Sight
• Hearing

14. Touch
• Proof……
• There’s a side of me that just wont stop dancin
in the flame.
• Explain……
• This is touch because the flame is touching
him, therefore making this touch.

15. sight
• Proof…….
• Wake up every morning
• Explain……
• This is sight because he is waking up and
seeing the world.

16. hearing
• Proof…
• Don’t know why my life sounds like a heart
broke country song.
• Explain…
• This is hearing because his life is sounding like
a heart broke country song.