C Em
The heart wants to feel. 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
[Verse 2]
C Em
The heart wants soft furniture, 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 and theyre feeling ill-used
[Verse 3]
C Em
But 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
[Verse 4]
C Em
So they found a lieutenant 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 theres 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
[Verse 5]
C Em
Now hes rising and not denying. His hands are shaking, but hes not crying
Am F
And hes 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
[Verse 6]
C Em
Does the heart want to atone? Oh, I believe that its so
Am F
Because if I could climb back through time, I'd restore their lives and then give back my own
Dm G
Ten 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
[Verse 7]
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 seems a gi-ven
F G
Just like your li-ving
[Verse 8]
C Em
Your hearts warm and kind. Your mind is your own
Am F
So our blood-spattered criminal is inscrutable; dont worry, he wont
Dm G
Rise up behind your eyes and take wild control
Dm F G
Say "hes not of this time, he fell out of a hole"
