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

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

I gotta free my soul from the troubles of lately Follow my heart wherever it takes me Let it flow on by like a piece of driftwood A piece of driftwood Untie my noose Open up a bottle of Whatever you choose You see the naked truth

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

How do I get to heaven? The truth runs wild So I'm counting to fifty Counting to fifty, counting to fifty Without losing a piece of me Without changing a part of me All my time is wasted Feeling like my heart's mistaken, oh So if I'm losing a piece of me

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

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

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

Blame it on my youth. If I cried a little bit When first I learned the truth, Don't blame it on my heart, If I expected love when first we kissed, If only for you I did exist, I believed in everything, Like a child of three, You meant more than anything,