The Heart Is a Muscle

Break me off a piece of that

And mix it in with a little wine

With someone warm and smart, I guess

With a heart in first and a soul behind

And I won't give in

'Cause I wanna try again

There will be no years of silence

In the shadow of regret

I won't let it so betray me

Though my soul got use to it

I will look at love as more than

Just an instrument of pain

And will give myself completely

To the moving and the strange

'Cause I wanna overcome

And try to love someone

I will not spend the years depleted

Of my willingness to try

It won't hurt this way forever

It ain't worth the overtime

I'm not looking for redemption

Or some shallow kind of bliss

Lay me down and kiss me deeply

Show me everything I missed

I haven't had enough

And I wanna love someone

I will not hurt like this forever

I'm responding to the call

While there's speakers in the outfield

Blasting out my favourite song

I will not play this out discreetly

It is real and unashamed

I am human now and terrified

But want it all the same

'Cause I wanna overcome

And try to love someone

'Cause the heart, the heart

The heart

The heart is a muscle

And I wanna make it strong

'Cause the heart, the heart

The heart

The heart is a muscle now

I wanna make it strong

I let bad love betray me once

But I was barely outta high school then

And I guess I fear the same result

And that none will take me as I am

I wanna be loved

I wanna be whole again

So tuck my hair behind my ears

And touch my soul again

The window is wide

The post unfulfilled

And I just ask you to be patient

If you'll have me still

'Cause I wanna open up

And try to love someone

'Cause I wanna overcome

And try to love someone

The heart, the heart, the heart

The heart is a muscle

The heart, the heart, the heart

The heart is a muscle now

The heart, the heart, the heart

The heart is a muscle now

And I wanna make it strong