Taken from the forthcoming album PLEASE. 
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BAD LAW

My baby surrendered to fate
And I couldn’t even say how I felt later on that evening
Stating my name to the officer’s aide was in vain 
Cause I knew they were out to get me

Place four of five fingers flat on a sticky plastic bat
Scan my blue bloodshot eyes for the history of my trials

When crimes are passionate can love be separate?

En route to my cell I retraced every step
and found a way to redact and retell my story
No evidence and no witness to summon or finesse
I confess, it all sounds unlikely

A sweaty, paranoid palm pressed against a leathered wall
The law in all its flaws, me in an oversized overall 

When crimes are passionate can love be separate?

Baby it’s a bad, bad law 
It’s a bad, bad law, Geronimo
Baby it’s a bad, bad law 
It’s a bad, bad law, Geronimo
 
I straddled out on the stand
My defense scrawled on my hand
Killed time and time again but then I lost again

When crimes are passionate can love be separate?

Words & music by Sondre Lerche
Recorded, mixed and produced by Kato Ådland at Studio 5071, Bergen July/Dec 2013. 
Drums recorded by Henning Vatne Svoren at Ocean Sound, Giske July 2012.
Sondre Lerche: vocals, guitars.
Kato Ådland: bass, keyboards.
Dave Heilman: drums, percussion.

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Sondre Lerche - Bad Law

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in a bar where they would never play this
so you know i gotta spark the babies

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doc said bank your likes for a moment of self doubt
i'm splitin' roaches and sick of sittin' home

imma spark the babies then i'll meet you at the painted lady...

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Adam Padden: Guitar 
Donny Blum: Drums

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