Name: After The Fact
Duration: P00H02M58S
Description: I wrote this song just after Christmas 2012 while I was having something of a break down, I guess you could say. All I know is that it felt good to put all the things I was thinking down into a song and as such I don't really feel the need to discuss it in this little blurb. I think it is one of the best songs I've ever written.

After The Fact

from After The Crash by Big Bad

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I wrote this song just after Christmas 2012 while I was having something of a break down, I guess you could say. All I know is that it felt good to put all the things I was thinking down into a song and as such I don't really feel the need to discuss it in this little blurb. I think it is one of the best songs I've ever written.

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After the fact, before the reason
I’m not hanging around while the atmosphere’s freezing
After the fact, before the reason
better run for the hills while rationality’s leaving

And it’s the same for everyone
I know, I know, oh
Sometime you have to let your head go

Opportunities gone, packed a bag and it’s leaving
it’s jumping over the fence when I fell through the ceiling
there’s a popular myth about the grass being greener
well I don’t know about that, but I can sure see it clearer

She’s my number one pin
and she can drive me round the bend again
oh, if I knew then the things that I know now

After the fact, before the reason
it’s not worth all the grief, love is only a feeling
after the fact, before the reason
better get me a nurse to stem the flow of the bleeding

She’s my number one pin
and she can drive me round the bend again
oh, if I knew then the things that I know now

After the fact, before the reason
it’s not worth all the grief, it’s not worth all the time.

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from After The Crash, released February 7, 2013
Written and Performed by Ben Walton
Produced by Adrian D. Nelson and Ben Walton
Mixed, Engineered and Recorded by Adrian D. Nelson at The Sunnyside Basement Studio.

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