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The Heart Breaks

from The Fritters by The Fritters

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Kelli strated writing this with a guy called Mike King ( no relation) and we finished it up.

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The Heart Breaks

Words spoken
limbs are frail
valves that cut off
and the legs of a chair

The door that opens
the one you close
the desk you sit at
and the car you drove.

Even the white wings of a dove
the back of a hand
the dark before dawn
the voice of a man
But the heart breaks
the heart breaks,
the heart breaks
most of all.

Bottles run out
threads bare
glass shatters
rust everywhere

The phone you call from
the dam you built
the bank you busted
and the home you filled

And this list of things that need repair
that grows every day
of every year
You keep your best ofs
and you your top ten
I'll keep track of
what's broken.

Waves of water
long dry spells
fences that stretch out
the home you filled

The mold you're made of
clouds overhead
the fever you suffer
and the headlines read.

Even the white wings of a dove
the back of a hand
the dark before dawn
the voice of a man
the faith of a child
the chains you're in
a world record set
again and again.

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from The Fritters, released May 25, 2006

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