bad luck - or: scraps IV

I wrote another verse:

it's not the life I strived for
dreamed of in my pursuit of happiness
I have the foot-in-mouth disease
stumbling over my own awkwardness

... and a bridge as well:

if I tried to hang myself
I am sure the rope would tear
I have learned life isn't fair
leaving me so much impaired
this is really hard to bear

Once I've found a meter for the verses I often end up using the very same meter for the bridge. That's not exactly helpful to make the  bridge stand out even if  I try to make it more different by using a different rhyming scheme. When writing the bridge for "bad luck" I noticed that I was going to fall into the same pattern yet again (seven syllables in the first line) so I decided to make sure that the following lines would differ from the verses as much as possible, and to write a different number of lines as well. I know that five lines don't agree with a two or four bar beat particularly well, but then, you can always add an instrumental part that covers the gap between bridge and chorus.