Analysis of Could've done Better
I tried to hold it all together
Made promises it’d last forever
Broken they are just like my mind
Could’ve done better, lord knows I tried
But I’m living this life of addiction
Stuck in a hole that’s caving in
Can’t get to the fresh air
Feels like I’m stuck here
Now I’ve let you all down, most of them I don’t care
I’m just their tool, someone to use
To do the dirty things they won’t do
Tomorrow they’ll have ten more like me. Tell them they’re great, be the new family
Only feel bad about a slim few
Feel bad about what I did to you
You put your trust in me
I let you down and your whole family
I know you’ll be ok you’ll move on you better win.
I hope one day we can still be friends. I hope you know I tried my best
But it wasn’t good enough it never is
Can’t make my friends and family
Ever happy I’m always letting them
Down and I can’t stop wondering
If they’d be better off without me
Better yet if they never knew me
All I know anyways
I should’ve done better for all you guys
I can’t think straight since you know when
My stars don’t come out at night, they’ve been fading
They’re almost gone then they’ll just be me in the pitch dark.
I’m afraid of what will happen then. I’ll tell you all about it if I see you again.
Can’t think of any more feel like I’m babbling
You should hear how this sounds inside my head. I’m even getting tired of all this rhyming.
So I’ll let you go, have a good night
Oh and by the way
Maybe you can try again
To turn this into a song my friend
Have a line where you are singing
About some asshole who shot himself
In his head.
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Metre | 111111010 110011010 10111111 11101111 1110111010 10011100 111011 11111 111111111111 1111111 110101111 011111111111101100 101101011 110111111 111101 1111011100 1111111111101 11111111111111111 1111011101 11110100 101011101 10111100 111101011 101111011 11110 111101111 11111111 11111111110 111111110011 1011111011111011111101 111101111100 1111110111110101011110 111111011 10101 1011101 111010111 10111110 011101101 011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,645 |
Words | 336 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 39 |
Lines Amount | 39 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 1,203 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 320 |
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