Before I Met You
Ain't it funny how suddenly
Everything can change
How your life can be ruined
By the things people say
I know this is true
And I know it for sure
Cause it happened to me
Now I live behind closed doors
There are bars on these windows
And a lock on this door
Ten inches of concrete
Between my world and yours
Can't break down these walls
Lord knows I've tried
Sometimes I feel like
I'm in here for life
And it hurts
Cause I know
There's nothing I can do
To go back to the way things were
Before I met you
I was wrapped around your finger
You were my whole world
Til the day you broke my heart
Said you weren't my girl
And oh, baby how suddenly
Everything changed
Now I'm a prisoner in my own house
And my life will never be the same
As it was before I met you
There are bars on these windows
And a lock on this door
Ten inches of concrete
Between my world and yours
Can't break down these walls
Lord knows I've tried
Sometimes I feel like
I'm in here for life
And it hurts
Cause I know
There's nothing I can do
To go back to the way things were
Before I met you
Oh, oh oh before I
Oh, ho before I
Baby before I met you
About this poem
This is when the girl you love stops loving you. We all know how that feels.
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Written on March 18, 2022
Submitted by calebmyers1488 on March 18, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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| Scheme | a x x x b x a c D E F C G H I J K L B M B m x x x a x x b D E F C G H I J K L B M B n n b |
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| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 1,171 |
| Words | 287 |
| Stanzas | 45 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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