Lyrics

The Crime, The Punishment, and A Bribe

The memories, the certainties
Of holding you and you being mine
Now are fading, complicating
Picturing you in my mind
The lesson learned, in time do tell
If rescuing will suit you well
This bidder end, unfitting fend
And misery too much to tell

So I try,
To build back what I once defended
Backs against the wall

Decisions made a long time ago in Lexington
Is now a broken friendship
It may be too hurt to mend it
So I?m writing to the contrite and broken hearted
To please forgive me for the crime,
The punishment, the tasteless bribe

You never wanted to let go
Well I planted seeds and you watched them grow
It was a foolish game like ?child?s play?
Now I see who holds the blame
And how a part of it was mine
Now I know this tattered soul
May just be too intertwined

So I try,
To build back what I once defended
Backs against the wall

Decisions made a long time ago in Lexington
Is now a broken friendship
It may be too hurt to mend it
So I?m writing to the contrite and broken hearted
To please forgive me for the crime,
The punishment, the tasteless bribe

And after all my life?s left in your hands
And after all I?m doing all I can

Decisions made a long time ago in Lexington
Is now a broken friendship
It may be too hurt to mend it
Decisions made a long time ago in Lexington
Is now a broken friendship
It may be too hurt to mend it
So I?m writing to the contrite and broken hearted
To please forgive me for the crime,
The punishment, the tasteless bribe

The one I used to know
Should not have let you go
You held my heart

Written, Recorded, and Performed by Matthew Ludwikowski
Vocals Performed by Andrew Buck
Copyright Winters Peach Publishing 2006