Hearts Don't Break, People Do

they say that it's your heart that hurts

when it lacks the love to make it work

your blood will boil, your chest will burst

your foolish pride is at its worst

and if your blood is not scalding hot

it's freezing cold, your veins they clot or scab

like an electric chair

you know it's ending quick but painful

with lonely hearts and foolish pride

it makes no difference to be defined

it's just the way we talk about

when love runs out

when love runs out

you'd think a heart that's broken

would just shrivel and compact

the valves they'd shut, the pressure build

the seams and sinews warp and crack

and though that's quite poetic

you know that doesn't make it true

in fact the brain does much more suffering

than a muscle like the heart will ever do

your mind's a fragile thing

romances wrecks it's wiring

your senses dull, your logic's gone

and you can't even see or talk to anyone

and if everything just stays the same

expands and then contracts

and symbolism won't line up with scientific fact

and when you say your heart's decaying

I know that's your way of saying

you just don't know how to be on your own

you just don't know how to be on your own

with lonely hearts and foolish pride

it makes no difference to be defined

it's just the way we talk about

when love runs out

when love runs out

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