You Dont Need Me



Don't turn your back like that
it will only hurt you, see
your stubbornness is really melting you
not setting you free.

Those rose bushes wrap
their loving arms around you
but really just tear and rip you apart
you don't need me, just what destroys your heart.

And what I really need
Is what makes me bleed
my cunning disease
lord, you don't need me
don't need me
you don't need me.

I can only give you miles and miles
and miles of trees
but all you want is the sea
the sea

You need the sea
and you don't need me.
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Submitted on October 22, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XABA XBCC DDEAAA XEAA AA
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 494
Words 103
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 6, 4, 2

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