6) Bounty Hunter Beauty (4:02)



Song Description
Track six is a song about falling in love with someone you shouldn’t and tells a story of a guy falling in love with someone sent to possibly assassinate him with the opening line, “She Broke In Through The Window/With A Switchblade And A Gun/She Cornered Me In The Bedroom/And Told Me Not To Run/Do Your Worst Is What I Said/Your Worst Ain’t Good Enough/And As I Gazed Upon Her Face/I Knew I’d Called Her Bluff.” A sudden chance of pace in the song begins as the attempted assassination turns into a love story. It’s one of the loudest songs on the record, perhaps with the exception of tracks ten and eleven, the guitar is very melodic and the drums are quite powerful providing the perfect backdrop for Brandon’s mix of soulful softness and growling rocker vocals and the anger and frustration is there as he asks in the song, “Why Do I Love You/When You Were Sent Kill Me/You Don’t Have Any Answers/But Baby You Still Thrill Me.” And the song ends with several drum beats each getting softer and softer as time passes.

Songwriters Comment
“This is quite a different sort of song for me, it’s quite hostile and it’s a pretty angry song as the lyric explains, the guy in the song doesn’t understand how he can fall in love with someone sent to kill him and it’s just way too tough for him to figure it out, he doesn’t like it because it’s a feeling that he doesn’t seem to be used to and he’s kinda angry about it but he can’t seem to stop himself from falling for this girl. I wrote this song around December 2010, I actually wrote the beginning of the song at the DB hotel and Hannah added the line, “And As I Gazed Upon Her Face/I Knew I’d Called Her Bluff.” Which I thought was a great line, we did initially plan on doing the song together as a duet but it didn’t really happen, it just didn’t seem like a duet song so when I went out to Indiana to record part one of the album, I finished the song and even recorded it for part one but I decided not to include it and I recently decided to change the lyrics slightly and include it in part two, it’s a complex sort of song but it’s different and it’s something I’m quite proud of.”
- Brandon Caulfield

Similar To
The Who - Love Reign O’er Me

8) Working On A Mystery (3:03)



Song Description
The soft dulcet tones of Caulfield return to the fore once more for track 8, Brandon sings of confusion and love once more, a recurring theme perhaps. But with a slight difference, the acoustic guitar providing the introduction to the song “When You Are Here, I Can’t Help But Feel So Warm/But Now That Your Gone, I’m Just Sat All Alone/You Burn Through My Heart Like Wild Fire Once More/You Write Me A Note And Slide It Under My Door/And As I Smile/It Says To Me/I’m Working On A Mystery.”
As the music continue’s to play softly and free, he let’s out a sorrowful and somewhat lonely voice, as he questions his own feelings, “And Nothing Is Happening In My Lonely Life/I Can’t Seem To Let You Out Of My Head Tonight/You’ve Gone And There’s No Sign Of You Coming Back Home/I Get A Letter And It Says I’m Better Off Alone.” And at 3 minutes long, the song is perhaps the only real likely candidate as a single but it remains to be seen. As the soft acoustic guitar continue’s to play during a break from lyrics, it’s beauty is evident as you can hear every little sound of the guitar, it may not be perfectly produced with layers but it’s rawness and beauty is what makes this song as endearing as it is and if you listen really closely to the song, you can even hear Caulfield’s breathing towards the end of the song providing a slightly haunting feeling to the music.

Songwriters Comment
“This is just pretty bizarre to me, I like the song but when I listened to it back for the first time, I was like what the hell, how did I get in the mindset to write this, it’s pretty unusual, I can usually put a story to each song that I was written, I can usually explain what I was feeling when I wrote each of my songs but with this one, it’s just a complete blur, I guess it’s just one of those things but I have no clue as to what my mindset was and how I was feeling when I wrote it, I don’t even remember when I wrote the song or where I wrote the song, I was looking through a box of old stuff and I came across this torn piece of paper with the lyrics written on it and I was just like, “where the hell did that come from.” but I sat with an acoustic guitar and tried to find the right music to go with the lyrics and the song sort of took on a new kinda life, from almost not existing it became a song I was pretty fond of and I just had to include it in the album and at 3 minutes long it’s pretty short from my standards but it’s an easy song to listen to, you don’t have to use your mind an awful lot when you listen to it, but yeah, It doesn’t really have a story.”
- Brandon Caulfield

Similar To
Ryan Adams - Memories Of You

10) Fighting For A System Built To Fail (5:26)



Song Description
This is perhaps the angriest song on the album and makes a change from the wallowing loneliness that we’re now somewhat familiar with, Brandon sings about war and an unusual topic by his standards, this is territory he hasn’t yet involved himself with as a songwriter but he seems to be letting his frustrations out, “We’ve Tried To Find A Way To Resolve All Of Our Problems/But One Thing Is Pretty Damn Clear To Me/Love Is The Most Powerful Tool On This Earth/So Why Can’t You Just Let Things Be.” he snarls into the microphone. Backed by the piano and drums during this song.
The music continue’s as Brandon takes a break from vocals before he returns with, “We’re Waging Wars And Closing Doors/We’re Heading To The Seas And Setting Sail/But We All Know … /WE’RE FIGHTING FOR A SYSTEM BUILT TO FAIL!!!.” He yells into the microphone with nothing but anger and frustration as the song begins to soften towards the end, he takes a step back from the microphone and allows the music to finish the song with around 50 seconds of instrumental music.

Songwriters Comment
“This is a very quiet and sombre record and I think that this song was included because it’s something different, it touches on a topic that I generally refuse to tackle and I attempt to stay away from but this is it, I just sat down and started writing and this is what came out, It was written in February this year and it’s different from what else is on the record. If you know me then you’ll probably be aware that I tend not to raise my voice, it’s not part of me but on this track I just felt like it should be let loose in this kinda way, with every single part of my body, perhaps in a similar way to when John Lennon recorded the vocals for Twist And Shout. I just felt like this was the song to show a different sort of side to the music and it was a good release to just let loose. I think the song still fits into the album although it is slightly different from the previous tracks. I was very happy with how this song came out and I think it’s one of the stand out tracks, I think it’s message can be interpreted in many different ways and that’s a good thing, I know the real message behind the song but I won’t be explaining that part of the song because it’s better for people to make their own judgements.”
- Brandon Caulfield

Similar To
Bright Eyes - Road To Joy

12) A Whiskey And A Smile (Hides My Sorrow For A While) (9:11)



Song Description
Track number nine is essentially a nine-minute Loveletter to both a place and a person. The song begins with a soft piano introduction which lasts for the first 40 seconds until Brandon finally begins to sing, “When We Were Young/We Used To Be So Unafraid/So Childish And Free/When We First Met/We Were So Small/We Didn’t Know Nothing/Nothing At All/But As Time Goes By/I’m Sat All Alone, Just Me/In The Place That We Shared/With No Company.” he sings with that trademark softness with the air of regret and sadness as he looks back on how things were and how things could have been for him now.
The song continue’s with the softness up until around the 2:11 mark where the drums and guitar are introduced into the song to add a bit more aggression as Caulfield begins to sing more with anger and frustration “And Now That You’ve Gone/There’s No One To Fill In Your Place/I’m Just As Lonely As Ever/And I Don’t Wanna Show My Face.” And as the music begins to soften a little again, it’s time for the chorus, “But Now I’ll Learn To Move On/It May Take Some Help/And I’m Going Out Of Style/Because A Whiskey And A Smile/Hides My Sorrow For A While.” He sings with enough emotion that you can begin to hear his voice start to crack a little, it adds to the beauty of the song and gives it a more human touch.

A rather lengthy instrumental break comes after the chorus in the form of the piano which takes the song over the 4 minute mark before Brandon starts to sing again, “The Amount Of Times I’ve Tried To Leave/But I Just Can’t Seem To Find A Reprieve/I Make My Decision And Then I Change My Mind/I’m Just Searching For The Loving Kind.” The guitar and drums come to the fore again as the chorus returns. “But Now I’ll Learn To Move On/It May Take Some Help/And I’m Going Out Of Style/Because A Whiskey And A Smile/Hides My Sorrow For A While.” as the song comes up towards it’s final section he begins to gloss over what has previously been said, as he start repeating himself “When We Were Young/We Used To Be So Unafraid/So Childish And Free/When We First Met/We Were So Small/We Didn’t Know Nothing/Nothing At All/But As Time Goes By/I’m Sat All Alone, Just Me/In The Place That We Shared/With No Company.” before adding to it slightly, “I Need Some Company/I Really Do/I Need Some Company/That’s Reminds Me Of You.” Another chorus repeats and the song plays out softly with the twinkling piano keys and a breathy vocal from Brandon.

Songwriters Comment
“I wrote this song last year. It’s written about a friend of mine called Isabel, she passed away 3 years ago and it was on the anniversary of her death. I’m recording in Elizabethtown, Indiana and this is where we used to go, we first came out here when we were 16 and then every chance we got we used to come out here and it was sort of like our own little place, something we shared together and I drove out here on the anniversary of her death and sat for 2 days straight on this river bank where we used to sit together, I ended up writing this song but I just couldn’t figure out how to finish it, that’s the real reason why it’s over nine minutes long. I think it’s quite different from the previous songs on the record, the previous songs have all had just one primary feeling but with this track it has a mix of everything really, It has anger, reminiscing about happiness, loneliness, frustration and so on. It’s a song I’m pretty fond of.”
- Brandon Caulfield

Similar To
Ryan Adams - Come Pick Me Up