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This Bad Decision

by Sam Behymer & the Bowties

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1.
keep a light burning in the window so the time you lost and the faith you lost and the love you lost can come back home to roost my undoing un-understood thought i did the best that i could take it slow, temporary home and let it go i don't wanna stay here i just wanna lay here for a while keep your friends close until they leave you when the time's the worst and it hurts the worst and you'd do your worst to keep them from the truth all that healing un-undertook all those years, not one backwards look but now i know, temporary home i let it go i don't wanna live here i just wanna sit here for a while because this bad decision has the power to erase all the stupid things i said to you when you were in my place
2.
come along my friend i've seen where they keep the keys come along you've got to shut your mouth and follow me thank god the dark did not take you before i got to you come along my friend there is a window of time and i will meet you outside and we will take to the sky and the light that sets you free is gonna melt your wings but if you're holding onto me you will not feel a thing and the light that sets you free is gonna melt your wings but just keep holding onto me i'll give you everything keep it up my friend i know why they brought you here keep it up, believe me, i'll make you disappear this is an evacuation you'll be a new creation keep it up my friend there is a window of time there is a way to survive but you must give me your life and the light that sets you free is gonna melt your wings but if you're holding onto me you will not feel a thing and the light that sets you free is gonna melt your wings but just keep holding onto me i'll give you everything there is a window of time and i will meet you outside there is a way to survive but you must give me your life so you can lay here and die it's just a matter of time or we can take to the sky and the light that sets you free is gonna melt your wings but if you're holding onto me you will not feel a thing and the light that sets you free is gonna melt your wings but just keep holding onto me i'll give you everything
3.
there was never anything but blood between us and i have shed the last of that you will notify your followers of this grievance and i'll be wanted dead in every major city tell yourself whatever helps you sleep and look at me - i can't get far enough away still holding onto something i never heard you say i know that i'll outgrow the pain but i can't get far enough away go on love parade your jealousy as reason i'm lost but i'm not coming back in captivity i fell for childhood demons and when you find me there'll be nothing left to break i tell myself whatever helps me sleep and look at me - i can't get far enough away still holding onto something i never heard you say i know that i'll outgrow the pain but i can't get far enough away don't hang up the phone allow me one moment of weakness before i let go and look at me - i can't get far enough away still holding onto something i never heard you say i know that i'll outgrow the pain but i can't get far enough away
4.
i am fighting the tide reaching up from inside my exterior calm stacking bricks on my chest keep your calf muscles flexed are we doing this wrong i am no hooded vagrant i've seen the signs release your hounds of mercy take what you find my oblivious friends practice not giving in to the people they are build a toothpick chateau knock it down with one blow then go cry in your car i am no spineless black sheep i pay my fines release your hounds of mercy infect my mind slide your hand through the bars touch the teeth of my heart i am vicious and true kingdom's coming for us i hear hooves in the dust and we're not waiting for you i am no bloated girl-child these ties don't bind release your hounds of mercy leave me behind
5.
take a knife to the mood sever me from my own feet and i'll find a new way down set fire to the room blue turning black as i breathe you in and in and in and in and out
6.
Careless 02:39
if you could have seen you might have believed but i feel you slipping now with my newborn mouth i singled you out and we lost our way somehow all i know is what i want all you see is who i was we were bound to break in the wake of careless love count on the truth to untie the noose and relieve the years of falsehood but under your love you're holding that grudge like any angel would all i know is what i want all you see is who i was we were bound to break in the wake of careless love
7.
The Snake 04:44
there was a snake in the road and it was talking to me had no mouth left to move been dead at least a week but i knew the voice right away convinced my feet to stay and as the moon rise high i knelt by his broken side and he said i got you beat on borrowed time i got your love in the same place i keep mine now baby stay by me 'till your blood is dry and i will find you on the other side and now the earth shook below and the snake showed his teeth i felt knives in my blood and i smelled something sweet i watched the sky crack and peel exposing bars of steel and i looked the snake in the eye i got you beat on borrowed time i got your love in the same place i keep mine now baby stay by me 'till your blood is dry and i will find you on the other side
8.
More Love 04:52
this can't be real i am unsinkable i am not here to be saved but these recent realignments have altered the way that the wind hits my face and i know that you'll go and there will be more love but it won't be like this there will be another but i'll never be his there will be more winters and more morning rain there will be more love but it won't be the same so just leave me here one foot in the water and one heart in pieces again and i will learn not to fear morning but i'll still have the wheat and the wind and these black and white nights if you're right and there will be more love but it won't be like this there will be another but i'll never be his there will be more winters and more morning rain there will be more love but it won't be the same
9.
come on down, i've got time and my magnolia needs you water black, water white show me how to make it not true i hear your voice, i close my eyes what did heaven tell you "leave her breath but take her life and then we'll see who she runs to" skin for skin, oh lead i'll follow sorrow keep your hands to yourself comfort me, help me sleep, fill the emptiness in me and i'm gonna follow you through hell but you've gotta keep your hands to yourself tell me where you have been what you saw there and what you stole you call me sister and friend but you don't know what i know skin for skin, oh lead i'll follow sorrow keep your hands to yourself comfort me, help me sleep, fill the emptiness in me and i'm gonna follow you through hell but you've gotta keep your hands to yourself
10.
he was the exception to the rule you'd never accept that he could cut you down like all the others did you promise yourself you'll play it cool and pay no attention to the man behind the curtain when your champagne bottle heart explodes and love gets on your sunday clothes there's no way to seal it up again everybody sees that you've got several missing pieces but instead of what you need they give you thread and a needle to patch it up and move on it's not at all comforting to know that they chose to come for you knowing that meant no one came for him your shattered face is still exposed paying the debt you owe in tears that burn your wounded skin when your champagne bottle heart explodes and love gets on your sunday clothes there's no way to seal it up again everybody ses that you've got several missing pieces but instead of what you need they give you thread and a needle to patch it up and move on your two faces are all i see

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released August 17, 2012

recorded at the study studios, simi valley, ca; mixed at yellow brick studios; produced by aaron burch; sound engineered by karl lutz and mark santos; performances by samantha behymer (vocals, keyboard, guitar), aaron burch (drums), ethan long (guitar), jack parmelee (bass), ginny luke (violin), michael christopher luebke (cello).

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