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Why You Shouldn't Love Me

from Three Hundred Suns by Annie Bethancourt

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why you shouldn't love me

i've got a hole in my heart
palms pressed to beating breast
to try and fill it up
still, you will watch your love seep out
cup your hands and crouch down
to catch what's left before it hits the ground
that's why you shouldn't love me

i've got a mind that's as wild as the sea
and strong enough to swallow up
the very thought of you and me
it's so easy to drown when you're under already
so save your life preserver to save a life that's worthy
i'm as wild as the sea
so don't try to tame me

and you say "girl, you're like the ebb and flow of waves
you come and go but each time move further away"
oh, creepin' it at night don't make it right--
my morning's leave
and that's why you shouldn't love me

i've got these words that are as heavy as stones
just watch 'em fall
like cannonballs being shot out in a row
and, oh, the sound, when they come down
to connect with blood and bone
i try to hide, cover my eyes
but i hear it and it shows
i've got these words as heavy as stones
so i'm better off alone

and you say "girl, you're fighting blindly in this rage
just wave your white flag, you can salvage what remains"
well, i'm good as down but still to proud to admit defeat
and that's why you shouldn't love me

i've got this hope that i can be made whole
i think i've saved a place for peace to live in this soul
but i've got these fears, so i'll just watch this thing unfold
an epic's brave beginning or the saddest story every told

and you say "girl, our stories written in the sand
just try to be a good woman, i'll try to be a good man"
but going in reverse to the very first is adam and eve
and that's why you shouldn't love me
that's why you shouldn't love me
but oh, won't you please love me?

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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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