This document analyzes the musical devices and lyrical content in the song "You Don't Know Her Like I Do" by Brantley Gilbert. It identifies the use of end rhyme, slant rhyme, internal rhyme, repetition, simile, personification, and hearing imagery. The chorus focuses on how the narrator's friend is the only one who can truly understand what they have been through together.

1. Brantley Gilbert
You Don’t Know Her Like I Do!
Lyric Project

2. Musical Devices
• End Rhyme:
• Slant Rhyme:
• Internal Rhyme:
• Alliteration:
• Assonance:
• Consonance:
• Onomatopoeia:
• Refrain/Chorus:
• Repetition:

3. End Rhyme
“To hear somebody say it stops hurting,
Or to hear somebody say she ain’t worth it.”
It’s the end of the chorus and it rhymes.

4. Slant Rhyme
• “No, you don’t know how much I’ve got to lose,
You don’t know her like I do.”
• “You don’t know her like I do,
You’ll never understand,
You don’t know what we’ve been through.”
It sort of rhymes but not exactly. Like a slant rhyme.

5. Internal Rhyme
“You’ll never understand
You don’t know what we’ve been through
That girls my best friend.”
There’s a rhyme inside the chorus. This is the inside of the
chorus.

6. Repetition
“That girl’s my best friend,
That girl’s my best friend,
That girl’s my best friend.”
The same line keeps repeating.

7. Figurative Language
• Simile:
• Metaphor:
• Personification:
• Idiom:
• Hyperbole:
• Symbolism:
• Imagery:

8. Simile
“..it’s like a death inside the family.”
It compares using like.

9. Personification
“..I’m drowning in these memories.”
“It fills my soul..”
It’s giving human qualities to things that are a
figure of speech.

10. Imagery
• Visual
• Hearing
• Taste
• Touch
• Smell

11. Hearing
“..To hear somebody say it stops hurting.”
Hearing is a form of imagery.

12. Hearing
“..Or to hear somebody say she aint worth it.”
This is another type of hearing imagery.

13. Hearing
“..Yeah she’s gone, but I don’t feel like talking.”
Hearing imagery again.

14. Hey ole Friend, thanks for callin’
It’s good to know somebody cares
Yeah she’s gone, but I don’t feel like
talkin’
It might be just too much to bear
To hear somebody say it stops
hurting
Or to hear somebody say she ain’t
worth it Lyrics!
You don’t know her like I do
You’ll never understand
You don’t know what we’ve been
through
That girl’s my best friend
And there’s no way you’re gonna
help me
She’s the only one who can
No, you don’t know how much I’ve
got to lose
You don’t know her like I do

15. I can’t forget, I'm drowning in these
memories
It fills my soul with all the little things
And I can’t cope, it’s like a death inside the
family
It’s like she stole my way to breathe
Don’t try to tell me it stops hurting
Don’t try to tell me she ain’t worth it
You don’t know her like I do
You’ll never understand
You don’t know what we’ve been through
That girl’s my best friend
And there’s no way you’re gonna help me
She’s the only one who can
No, you don’t know how much I’ve got to
lose
You don’t know her like I do

16. You don’t know her like I do
You’ll never understand
You don’t know what we’ve been through
That girl’s my best friend
There’s no way you’re gonna help me
She’s the only one who can
No, you don’t know how much I’ve got to
lose
You don’t know her like I do