Lyrics of 'Distraction #74' by Avett Brothers

I was in love with your beauty from the day you walked my way
Oh how I wish that was enough to have made me want to stay
See I'm as true as I try to be and I must say my girl
I tried the best to give to you all of the truest in the world

But when I left your house that morning in that ragged thunderbird
Tried so hard to fight the voices from the devil's that I heard
See there's a highway to the right of us I took it years ago
And since a year ago can't drive past, without turning down that road

And I knew it
I never should have turned the wheel
And I knew it
The voices calling me were real
I knew it
Listen to the song they sing
I knew I was wrong
And I knew I was wrong

So give me a try at describing just how difficult it is
When you kinda love two girls to figure out which one you miss
Stumble away from your stairway with your perfume on my clothes
Well I kinda loved two girls but now I've kinda lost 'em both

And I knew it
I never should have turned the wheel
And I knew it
The voices calling me were real
I knew it
Listen to the song they sing
I knew I was wrong
And I knew I was wrong

And if I could gather up the damage that I rendered in my life
Place it on a scale and weigh against the damage done that night
Then it'd be safe to say the weight of all I did and didn't do
Would surely float against the lightest straw I ever did to you