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Dead Men are Heavier than Broken Hearts

from Three Hundred Suns by Annie Bethancourt

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dead men are heavier than broken hearts

i saw you once before
saw you when your lips were talking
you had stopped outside my door
i guess i thought your feet were through with walking
and i felt a smile pull on my mouth
and i felt hope for the first time
and i knew you'd be mine

so i went so far from home
to start a new one with you
but you soon began to roam
saying "sugar, it's just no one can love a woman like i do"
and when people asked "how can you be wife and man?"
i told them we were in love and that that was enough

but oh, my darling, we would get along
if you'd just stay, stay, stay
oh, my lover, i won't do you wrong
if you just say you won't be gone
'cause when i awake and i don't see your face
i try to count my blessings in the times we've kissed
but all those nights when you're not by my side
i tell myself "there's got to be something better than this"

so I soon devised a plan
so your cheating heart wouldn't stray
with the sleeping pills in hand I spiked your whiskey
and I waited for the darkness at the end of the day
and when you fell into a deep sleep
to your bedside I did creep
and let my anger out with ropes, strong and true
and when you woke I sang to you

I said "Oh, my darling, I can see you want to leave
why don't you try? Try, try!
Oh, my lover, it used to be so easy to flee
but you know I am done being the fool, you see
and these chains that bind will link your heart to mine
and you will learn to finish what you did start
you can say I'm crazy, but you know I did believe
When you swore to God in heaven to love me
death 'till us part

Oh, my darling, we will get along
now that you'll stay--you have to stay
And oh my lover I won't do you wrong
now that I know you can't be gone
And when you awake and you see my face
you better count your blessings in the times we kiss
and all those nights now that you are by my side
you better tell me there couldn't be anything better than this

I'm not sayin' that it's right,
but you're here with me tonight
and that's where I think a good husband should be
Darling, don't you agree?

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from Three Hundred Suns, released December 12, 2009

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Annie Bethancourt Portland, Oregon

Annie Bethancourt has been heralded as an angelic voice with “a lot of talent on her lips and at her fingertips.”

Now splitting her time between the firs of Portland, Oregon and the palm trees of Costa Rica, Bethancourt lives a life of wanderlust, and her music is, just like her scenery, an ever changing mixture of people and places, strange scenarios, and quirky tales.
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