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C
The heart wants to feel.
Em
The heart wants to hold.
Am F
The heart takes past Subway, past Stop and Shop,past Beal's, and calls it "coming home."
Dm G
The heart wants a trail away from "alone,"
Dm F G
so the heart turns a sale into a well-worn milestone
C
towards hard-won soft furniture,
Em
fought-for fast food,
Am F
defended end table that holds paperbacks and back U.S. News.
Dm G
The mind turns an itch into a bruise,
Dm F G
and the hands start to twitch when they're feeling ill-used.
C Em
And you're almost back now, you can see by the signs;
Am F
from the bank you tell the temperature and then the time, and the billboard reads some headlines.
Dm G
The head wants to turn, to avert both its eyes,
Dm F G
but the mind wants to learn of some truth that might be inside reported crimes.
C
So they found a lieutenant
Em
who killed a village of kids.
Am F
After finishing off the wives, he wiped off his knife and that's what he did.
Dm G
And they're not claiming that there's any excusing it;
Dm F G
that was thirty years back, and they just get paid for the facts the way they got them in.
C
Now he's rising and not denying.
Em
His hands are shaking, but he's not crying.
Am F
And he's saying "How did I climb out of a life so boring into that moment?
G C Em
Please stop ignoring the heart inside, oh you readers at home!
Am F
While you gasp at my bloody crimes, please take the time to make your heart my home:
Dm G
where I'm forgiven by time, where I'm cushioned by hope,
Dm F G
where I'm numbed by long drives, where I'm talked off or doped.
C
Does the heart wants to atone?
Em
Oh, I believe that it's so,
Am F
because if I could climb back through time, I'd restore their lives and then give back my own:
Dm G
tens of times now its size on a far distant road
Dm F G
in a far distant time where every night I'm still crying, entirely alone."
F G Am
But the news today always fades away as you drive by,
F C G
until at dinnertime when you look into her eyes,
F G C Am
lit by evening sun - that, as usual, comes from above that straight, unbroken line,
F G F G C G Am
the horizon - its rising is a given,
F G
just like your living.
C
Your heart's warm and kind.
Em
Your mind is your own.
Am F
Our blood-spattered criminal is inscrutable; don't worry, he won't
Dm G
rise up behind your eyes and take wild control.
Dm F G
He's not of this time, he fell out of a hole.