Warren wanted a Beach Boys thing for this one, and Carl Wilson and Billy Hinsche came in, with Carl arranging the vocal parts. The other harmony vocalists (credited as the "Gentlemen Boys") were Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther, Zevon's longtime backers Waddy Wachtel and Jorge Calderon, and Linda Rondstadt/Stone Poneys guitarist Kenny Edwards.
Close your eyes and make believe this is where you want to be
Forgetting all the memories, try to forget love cause love's forgotten me
Well hey, hey baby, it's never too late pretty soon you won't remember a thing
And I'll be distant, the stars reminiscing
Your heart's been wasted on me
You've never been so used as I'm using you, abusing you
My little decoy
Don't look so blue, you should've seen right through
I'm using you, my little decoy
My little decoy
Live your life inside a dream
Time is changing everything
Forgetting all the memories
And I'm forced into you just cause you're into me
Well hey, hey baby, it's never too late
When I'm gone you won't remember a thing
But I can't stay and you know I won't wait
I was gone from the very first day
You've never been so used as I'm using you, abusing you
My little decoy
Don't look so blue, you should've seen right through
I'm using you, my little decoy
Oh, oh.
I'm not sorry at all
(not sorry at all, not sorry. no.)
I won't be sorry at all
(not sorry at all, not sorry. no.)
I'd do it over again
Don't look so blue, my little decoy
You should've seen right through, my little decoy
You've never been so used, my little decoy
And so I'm using you, my little decoy
Forgetting all the memories, try to forget love cause love's forgotten me
Well hey, hey baby, it's never too late pretty soon you won't remember a thing
And I'll be distant, the stars reminiscing
Your heart's been wasted on me
You've never been so used as I'm using you, abusing you
My little decoy
Don't look so blue, you should've seen right through
I'm using you, my little decoy
My little decoy
Live your life inside a dream
Time is changing everything
Forgetting all the memories
And I'm forced into you just cause you're into me
Well hey, hey baby, it's never too late
When I'm gone you won't remember a thing
But I can't stay and you know I won't wait
I was gone from the very first day
You've never been so used as I'm using you, abusing you
My little decoy
Don't look so blue, you should've seen right through
I'm using you, my little decoy
Oh, oh.
I'm not sorry at all
(not sorry at all, not sorry. no.)
I won't be sorry at all
(not sorry at all, not sorry. no.)
I'd do it over again
Don't look so blue, my little decoy
You should've seen right through, my little decoy
You've never been so used, my little decoy
And so I'm using you, my little decoy
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I think its about a girl who is with someone she really doesnt care for and she cant have the person she really loves so shes using this other guy as a "Decoy" to fill the void while time passes but he doesnt mean anything to her hes just there
actually Hayley talked about this song in a live journal reply to a comment someone left in her post "what are you ashamed of?" and basically Hayley had replied to the girl "i cant say ive ever loved someone and longed for another.but I have loved someone and used another.i actually wrote a song about it and I hope it makes the record."
so personally Im guessing Decoy is that song.and it makes perfect sense. she pretended to like someone just so she could get to another.it was fake.a decoy.i think that basically sums it up in a nutshell.
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I don't know. When I first heard this song, I was thinking that she's reiterating what someone said to her. As if in a mocking sense, or just a hurting sense. I partially agree with scene, though. It's kind of like Misery Business in a sense. The same 'I-Don't-Give-A-Damn-About-You' thing.
Yeah. I think she's looking at it from a guys perspective, of how he was using her. And she's basically letting her anger rip.
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these lyrics are malicious. too malicious for her. the person in this song is reckless, & very selfish. & that fact has led me to this theory; i feel as if she is singing this song, from the point of view of another. someone who seriously fucked her over, & continues to do this to others as a pattern & she recognized it. i don't know, i just feel that compared to her views on love & pain in other songs, that she'd never seriously agree with this & act on the things she's describing. i can relate, i like to write, & i got hurt by someone who is very, very unsettled. so i wrote it out, from his point of view, to try & better understand it. of course, however, artists like to portray someone else every now & then so i could be wrong.
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it's not long ^^
there are more lyrics
hm..personally, i relate this song to drugs..
but i highly doubt she was writing about drugs..