The feel that I get towards this song is that it is very depressing and melancholy. Johnny Cash has a deep fascinating voice in which he makes the audience feel his pain.
Video ideas (what could be)
- Young Johnny Cash doing drugs
- In a chair with a guitar
- Black and white
Real Video
- MLS of Johnny Cash performing in a house by himself
- Close up of his face (shows old age)
- Mainly performance video but also narrative
- Shot of the American flag (symbolises that he had lived the American dream and also that he is a american icon)
- Clip of House of Cash Museum Closed (symbolises that his fame has died out)
- Cash sitting in a thrown chair with antiques in the room.
- Black suit (known as man in black, iconic)
- Closes piano (symbolises the end of his career)
- Opens piano (remembers memories as a star)
- Archive footage of young Johnny Cash on a train (Home video)
- Everyone goes away’ shows picture of his mom (worships her)
- Broken gold record on the floor (not a big deal to him. Fame is nothing if you don’t have people to share it with)
- Shown in prison (got on well with prison people as he felt he understood them)
- Shot of him saying ‘stay away’ (could be referring to the devil)
- Visits his old house (old memories)(he was once just a normal person)
- Shows loads of food on the table (like last supper)
- Pours red wine on the floor (like last supper and for his dead family + friends)
- Shaking when spilling wine ( old age, Parkinson)
- Wife standing over his right shoulder (like his guardian angel)
- Moves hand when he says ‘goes away’ (symbolises his friends + family have gone away e.g. dead or left him)
- Feels he has been sacrificed by the critics
- Montage of him happy and sad
- Archive footage of him when he first shot to fame (ends on a good memory)
