That's the honky tonk truth cross my broken heart I put my right hand here on this beer And swear on this bar I ain't moaning the blues I wouldn't lie to you I'm the life of the party baby since you said good bye Just ask old Joe He knows I'm here

I must admit I was awful bad I walk the streets of love and they're full of tears You're awful bright, you're awful smart I must admit you broke my heart The awful truth is really sad While lovers laugh and music plays I stumble by and I hide my pain The

White shutters enclose The boundaries of my heart I gold my breath Till the steady beating is shut out In silence I wait for what is real For I know the truth of my perceptions Nothing in life matters more than you When first feelings fade I will still

Or stuffed into a cell I'm caught between the feeling Of being pulled apart The Truth of my heart Is like a repressed tale A censored and silenced story Repression or restraint It is a delicate balance

Home now, I'm home now But I'm home now And I'm one of those lucky ones I've been roaming round the lost and found One more mile in my shoes Spoke my hearts when I had the mind to Lost my way, trying to find truth Cross my heart and I hope to make it

Oh, this is the beat of my heart, this is the beat of my heart The fear of falling apart If you love me let me go Oh (This is the beat of my heart) ‘Cause these words are knives that often leave scars And truth be told, I never was yours The fear, the

Now you know I spit, I spit in the eye I tear, I tear out my heart I stay unseen by the light I stay untold by the truth I'm sold by a lie By this I am able in all of my travels To make these memories quit

Don't tell a lie on me I won't tell the truth 'bout you The legendary status of a hip-hop rhyme savior Thirty millions later, my future favors Travel round the atlas in this spaceship candy-coated My day shift's been devoted to fuckin' up bundles of

Oh, this is the beat of my heart, this is the beat of my heart The fear of falling apart If you love me let me go Oh (This is the beat of my heart) ‘Cause these words are knives that often leave scars And truth be told, I never was yours The fear, the

If you hadn't been a friend of mine I ain't misbehaving, I'm just telling you the truth Take my love for granted Yeah, I'd give it all to you Make me count for something Yeah, I feel it in my heart God only knows what I'd have been Guess you're still a