Black Heart

Album: London With The Lights On (2012)
Charted: 3
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  • I don't like it when you break me honey
    Why'd you have to do that?
    Tell me when you'll make these tears keep falling
    Do you feel like a man?

    Figure, figure there's no working you out whatsoever
    Only one way I can sum you up altogether
    You got a black heart

    Daddy I've fallen for a monster
    Somehow he's scaring me to death
    He's big and bad
    I love him like mad
    Momma, he's the best I ever had
    Daddy I've fallen for a monster
    He got a black heart

    No walls to build around me honey
    'Cause you blew my house down
    Sticks and stones won't put it back up for me
    And that's where we're at now

    Sicker, sicker, I ain't feeling your mouth whatsoever
    Naming hurts me more than weight thrown around but whatever
    You got a black heart

    Daddy I've fallen for a monster
    Somehow he's scaring me to death
    He's big and bad
    I love him like mad
    Momma, he's the best I ever had
    Daddy I've fallen for a monster
    He got a black heart

    Daddy I've fallen for a monster
    Somehow he's scaring me to death
    He's big and bad
    I love him like mad
    Momma, he's the best I ever had
    Daddy I've fallen for a monster
    He got a black heart

    He got a black heart
    He got such a dirty black heart in him
    I love him like mad
    Oh, yes I do
    He got a black heart Writer/s: Darren Lewis, Iyiola Babalola, Jo Perry, Shaznay Lewis
    Publisher: Downtown Music Publishing, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Gr from HampshireIt is clearly about domestic abuse. She is not falling for a bad boy she is stuck with a violent and abusive man. There are endless references to emotional and physical abuse in the song.
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