Name: Heart
Duration: P00H03M08S
Description: This is a song about my old friend arrhythmia.

Heart

by Iron Wife

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This is a song about my old friend arrhythmia.

lyrics

Heart

What's up with you, heart?
You're acting like you don't know how to pump blood.
You're acting like you're a teenager in love.
What's wrong with a steady beat beat beat beat beat?

Come on - buck it up, heart.
You think beating steady is wasting your time,
but carrying this on, you'll be cutting short mine.
Just try for a steady beat beat beat beat beat.

But can you just keep beating
for long enough for me to
finish everything that I've started.
(I'm too happy for my heart to be broken.)

And can you just keep beating
for long enough for me to
finish everything that I've started.
(I'm too happy for my heart to be broken.)

The printer, the clock,
the cat-feeder, my watch all keep a rhythm.
How hard can it be just to keep time with them?
Even the tap keeps a steady drip drip drip drip drip.

I'm trying my best,
but I get short shrift for my concentration,
it does nothing to stop your syncopation -
you're determined to skip skip skip skip skip.

And can you just keep beating
for long enough for me to
finish everything that I've started.
(I'm too happy for my heart to be broken.)

And can you just keep beating
for long enough for me to
finish everything that I've started.
(I'm too happy for my heart to be broken.)

credits

released February 28, 2017
Lyrics and music written and performed by Angela Cleland.

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Iron Wife UK

If you can see through moustaches, you might recognise me from one of my parallel identities - poet Angela Cleland, novelist Cleland Smith, or mother-of-two Angela Smith.

The name Iron Wife stems from a cover of an Iron Maiden song I recorded for my husband.

If my music sounds a little bit homemade, that's because it is. It's just up here to stop it cluttering up my brain. ... more