white lie

noor berber 2000 (South Carolina)



i was nothing but a little white lie.
i didn't want to be a pain
i didn't want to worry you,
i didn't want to be a pain

it happened more than once
i did it for you,
yet it was all because of you
nothing more than a little white lie

that was the little white lie you believed
it was only once just once i promised
i had the blade in my hand another 20 times
but you couldn't know that
the white lie you believed

that was the little white lie you used against me
i wanted to protect you
yet you couldn't care less about me.
you cared about yourself
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Submitted by noorwberber on April 15, 2021

Modified on April 12, 2023

35 sec read
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Quick analysis:

Scheme aBcB xcca dxxxd ecex
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 533
Words 114
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 5, 4

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