Happens To The Heart

Album: Thanks for the Dance (2019)
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  • I was always working steady
    But I never called it art
    I got my shit together
    Meeting Christ and reading Marx
    It failed, my little fire
    But it spread the dying spark
    Go tell the young Messiah
    What happens to the heart

    There's a mist of summer kisses
    Where I tried to double-park
    The rivalry was vicious
    The women were in charge
    It was nothing, it was business
    But it left an ugly mark
    I've come here to revisit
    What happens to the heart

    I was selling holy trinkets
    I was dressing kind of sharp
    Had a pussy in the kitchen
    And a panther in the yard
    In the prison of the gifted
    I was friendly with the guards
    So I never had to witness
    What happens to the heart

    I should have seen it coming
    After all, I knew the chart
    Just to look at her was trouble
    It was trouble from the start
    Sure, we played a stunning couple
    But I never liked the part
    It ain't pretty, it ain't subtle
    What happens to the heart

    Now the angel's got a fiddle
    The devil's got a harp
    Every soul is like a minnow
    Every mind is like a shark
    Me, I've broken every window
    But the house, the house is dark
    I care, but very little
    What happens to the heart

    Then I studied with this beggar
    He was filthy, he was scarred
    By the claws of many women
    He had failed to disregard
    No fable here, no lesson
    No singing meadowlark
    Just a filthy beggar guessing
    What happens to the heart

    I was always working steady
    But I never called it art
    It was just some old convention
    Like the horse before the cart
    I had no trouble betting
    On the flood, against the ark
    You see, I knew about the ending
    What happens to the heart

    I was handy with a rifle
    My father's .303
    I fought for something final
    Not the right to disagree Writer/s: Adam Cohen, Leonard Cohen
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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