This Black Heart

I was building an island in the heart of a black sea
Where no one could bother and you couldn’t find me
Then you drifted in softly just under my radar
Now I’m into your lifeboat
Like a castaway sailor

I, I, I
I’m coming over
I won’t take no from you
This black heart
is going under
and coming up new

I have taken the long way down a dark lonely alley
Then the rain made a river and it carried me downstream
To a dark place inside me where you didn’t matter
Surrounded by black cats and fire escape ladders

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I’m so tired of walking blind in the middle of the night
Won’t you come and bring the spark
To light this black black heart

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