Story Behind The Song
John Keane (Widespread Panic and producer of REM, B-52's, Indigo Girls and others) provided the pedal steel on this song that gives it the eerie inside-your-head feel.
Song Description
Deep introspection of one's life and how you have become a "Bad Example" in the eyes of others. Eerie sounding pedal steel and piano give this a dark Ray LaMontagne feel. This songs sounds like what we all hear inside our head when we think about our life and our faults.
| Song Length |
2:33 |
Genre |
Rock - General, Rock - Classic |
| Tempo |
Medium Slow (91 - 110) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Composed, Poignant |
Subject |
Life, Sadness |
| Similar Artists |
The Beatles, Counting Crows |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
BAD EXAMPLE
Spencer Durham
I am ever changing,
rearranging myself
Trying to fit the form
Of some illusion, that
I've set apart in my head
Oh I hear people saying,
That all of these paths I'm laying
Gonna send me down a road
That will have me paying in the end
CHORUS
I have become the bad example
I've never been the one to go and look for any trouble
But it seems my trouble surely has found me.
But now I'm between the middle,and my lifes become this riddle
Of all I am and all that I would never be
CHORUS
I've seen the realization,
Of all I've thought I've known
It's true that no one wants to be
To be the bad example
I am ever changing, rearranging myself
Trying to fit the form
Of some illusion, that
I've set apart in my head