Jenny Owen Youngs Follow

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
Silent between supplies and machines
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 wanna 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'd stay
Tomorrow and onward, just this close

No better way that I can see to spend all the time while you're asleep
When holding your hands inside of mine
I wanna 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 till they devour the sky

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

No better way that I can see to spend all the time while you're asleep
When holding your hands inside of mine
I wanna be here and nowhere else rationing off bits of myself
So I can crumble at your side

Here is a heart, here is a heart
I made it for you so take it
Battered and braised, grilled and sautéed