Map Of My Heart

Album: The Things That We Are Made Of (2016)
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  • The map of my heart looks a lot like yours
    From the one way streets to the old detours
    To the dark dead ends with their missing signs
    The sun and the moon and the roads that wind
    Like the stories we tell tracing the routes
    Wind in my ears, dirt on my boots

    The map of my heart is torn at the corners
    From ignoring the warnings, disobeying the orders
    I've been lost in a crowd, found in solitary
    I learned how to travel with just what I could carry
    Towards the vast unseen and the great unknown
    The map of a heart is all that we own

    Leaving safety to chance and reason behind
    X marks every spot I thought I'd lost my mind
    I didn't think that I could but I couldn't stop trying

    And I can't stop trying to hold in my hands
    That moment I could feel my heart expand
    With more love than I thought could exist in the world
    The hollows were gone, the emptiness filled
    A life transformed down to the bone
    This map of my heart is all that I own

    Do we ever stop longing and looking for home
    Do we ever stop feeling apart and alone
    Do we ever stop dreaming of where we belong
    This map of my heart looks a lot like yours
    This map of my heart looks a lot like yours Writer/s: Mary Chapin Carpenter
    Publisher: Sentric Music
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