How Joss Whedon has ruined me

[sheryden]

There's this amazing song called "The Long Black Veil." It's been done by everyone from the Band to David Gray to Johnny Cash. It's the story of a man that allows himself to be killed for a murder he didn't commit in order to protect the woman he's having an affair with. It's beautiful.

Well, it goes like this:

Ten years ago on a cold dark night,
someone was killed 'neath the town hall lights.
There were few at the scene, but they all agreed,
that the slayer who ran looked a lot like me.

Every time I hear this beautiful song, and I hear that last line... I picture Buffy running away from the scene of a crime. :/