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Ben Carroll: Listen To Music

11. Heart Alone

(Real Thing, 2007)
Someone has taken my breath
Turned my east into west
And it's left me with a pain in my breast

Whenever you up and leave town
It spins my world upside down
To remember the lonesome, simple sound of a

Heart alone
Wishing to turn into stone
And when it fails it derails
Into no man's land
A heart alone
Itching to crawl through the phone
To kiss on the lips and the hips
Of a love that's gone

I'm sipping my drink, I'm ostracized
Loneliness pins down the prize
And compels with your burning, bluest eyes

Do I declare that I am strong
Every move shows that I'm wrong
I'm a baby that's crying baby songs, I'm a

Heart alone
Wishing to turn into stone
And when it fails it derails
Into no man's land
A heart alone
Itching to crawl through the phone
To kiss on the lips and the hips
Of a love that's gone

Lonely ain't got nothing to say
It's only the thing that I'm stuck with all day

I could throw out apologies
I could set fire the tallest trees
I could dig til the devil's on his knees

I could set sail on stormy seas
I could fall down from burgundy
It's no difference until you come and see this

Heart alone
Wishing to turn into stone
And when it fails it derails
Into no man's land
A heart alone
Itching to crawl through the phone
To kiss on the lips and the hips
Of a love that's gone