Heart Song
Just another love song, part of the Tell It To Me Straight series of acoustic singles.
Lyrics
And so we turn my friends once more to matters of the heart A word that's used so much I hardly know where to start Yours is hungry for adventure It's a little left of centre I'm so very grateful for your heart
Perhaps the thing I love the most is its profound compulsion To pump your blood around your body of its own propulsion Moving oxygen and energy With unfailing regularity I'm so very grateful for your heart
So often celebrated Maybe it's overrated And your skin keeps out the weather It holds you all together And I can’t help wondering whether I'm Equally grateful for your skin
Now you have a beautiful heart But other organs deserve our love too
How come we never hear such songs about the lungs or liver You’ve a fine pair of the one and an impressive example of the other When you tell me that you love me Or pour yourself a glass of whisky I'm so very grateful for your lungs and your liver
And when we say heart that’s just a code for something in the brain I want no part in that encroaching theft of word terrain Plus did you know without the head You could even wind up dead I’m so very grateful for your brain
I put this to a friend A doctor of medicine She said without a kidney You'd be in trouble quickly
Turns out the body is a complex machine of highly interrelated essential systems Each composed of many unsung heroes
Now you have a beautiful heart But other organs deserve our love too
And so my friends the time has come to recap from the start I'm grateful for your skin Yes grateful for your lungs and liver Grateful for your brain And whether you're talking love or veins I'm still so very grateful for your heart
Written and Performed by Jake Morley
Produced and Mixed by Calum MacColl
Mastered by George Shilling