>>This is an outstanding description of a common response pattern.>>

Good - I'm glad it came out right. You can do research and you can practice but only the audience can tell you if your words came across right. Or give you insight into your words that you cannot see because you're too close.

>>The last verse hits hard.>>
Yeah. Keisuke understands logically that there is nothing he could have done but feelings and logic are often at cross-purposes with each other.