"I'm sick of feeling like a traitor—is this the price for good behavior?"
Tiffany Arbuckle Lee, stage name "Plumb," pulls emotions into this song and could almost (but not quite) be mistaken for Amy Lee (who Plumb actually influenced). Plumb's third album was coming out when Evanescence launched its first.
A gentle albeit synthesized beginning switches to a harder metal element. (Plumb's 2006 album Chaotic Resolve melds her original edgy dark rock sound with her more recent pop style works.) This sound is again reminiscent of Evanescence songs like "Taking Over Me."
In fact, Plumb could even be thought of as a Christian edition of Evanescence, since she likewise honestly explores dark topics in her lyrics. "Good Behavior" speaks of how constricting rules can have the reverse affect of what's intended.
The narrator has been surrounded by rules and kept inside them, but it's driving her mad. There's no salvation in following a mere set of rules, she knows, and she's "sick of feeling like a traitor" from playing hypocrite.
That the narrator breaks free—and goes recklessly wild because of it—is a warning to many of us, I think. It can be so easy to narrow things into categories of rules that children in particular can be overlooked as people who need (as they grow) to learn why the rules are there.
Overall, it's a fine enough song (along with "Better") that I'm adding Plumb on my "to-get" list.
Lyrics: 4/5
Music: 4/5
Vocal(s): 4/5
Overall: 8/10
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