lyrics: 'Those Things You Said'

I recently turned this in for a project in my songwriting class, in which I was supposed to write an pop tune in AABA form.  I ended up getting marked down because since my "bridge" was in the same key as the rest of the piece, ended on the tonic and ended with the title, it was really a "chorus." I didn't feel like refuting my teacher, so I just looked him in the eye and said, "Ok."  I've labeled it "properly" below.  Enjoy.

Those Things You Said

By Jake Hawken

Verse One:

Call me a charlatan,

a player, or a libertine,

or call me a boring prude,

or any slander in-between,

Your epithets so stive

to validate your disposition

though I'm your voodoo doll du jour

it won't change your condition.

Verse Two:

I've become your whipping boy,

the scapegoat for your attitudes

for me to say you brought them on yourself

would be a platitude.

To justify your words

you seek to vilify my name,

it must be so much easier

to always shift the blame.

Chorus:

But those things that you said,

keep ringing in my ears,

and I can't shake the feeling

that it's because they're what I needed to hear

...those things you said....

Verse Three:

I really hope that you

get therapeutic benefit

from your antipathy

but can this please be the end of it?

Discouraged by your lack

of what I happen to possess,

well, if it helps you sleep at night

then blame me for your stress.

[CHORUS]

Bridge:

Those things you said to me,

I'm sure were said in enmity

and nothing else that I can see,

but I can't seem to let it be.

Forces tend toward entropy,

but this is an eternity,

Won't someone come and set me free

from all these things you said to me.