Here Is A Heart

Jenny Owen Youngs

Here is a heart

Here is a heart

I made it for you

So take it

Battered and braised

Grilled and sautéed

Just how you like it

Like it...

You know I live

To fill you up

Blood of my blood

Dripping with love

I ll bring you the thing

You need most

Silence between

Supplies and machine

I ll hang in the corners

Like a ghost

You know I live

To be seen through

No better way

That I can see

To spend all the time

While you re asleep

When holding your hands

Inside of mine

I want to be here

And nowhere else

Rationing off

Bits of myself

So I can crumble

At your side...

Sleep like the dead

Through the noise

In your head

My monitors click

And whir and glow

I m with you all day

And also we would stay

Tomorrow and onward

Just this close

You know I live

To keep you safe

Ah..

No better way

That I can see

To spend all the time

While you re asleep

When holding your hands

Inside of mine

I want to be here

And nowhere else

Rationing off

Bits of myself

So I can crumble

At your side

I can t explain it

But I have to try

If you evaporate

The seas will rise

Til they devour the sky...

Here is a heart

Here is a heart

I made it for you

So take it

Battered and brazed

Grilled and sautéed

Just how you like it

Right there...

No better way

That I can see

To spend all the time

While you re asleep

When holding your hands

Inside of mine

I want to be here

And nowhere else

Rationing off

Bits of myself

So I can crumble

At your side..

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