Story About A Man With A Bad Heart - Emery

Watch your makeup

There’s just a smudge beneath the eye

You look great in that dress

It hits every curve just right

We’re got dinner at eight, and then drinks by nine

I love you so, it’s our anniversary tonight

Suddenly everything shakes as if it’s starting to break

And now I’m on my knees

My wife screams, «What's Wrong!?»

As the stereo plays our song, Only In Dreams

Just last Friday is when my heart failed again

I was thinking that I should find a friend

I bought her several drinks

And slipped the ring into my hand

We drove to her place

And let the good times roll again

Suddenly everything shakes as my protection breaks

And now I’m on my knees

And I scream, «This was wrong!»

As I leave, the stereo plays the song, «The Finishing»

Is this it?

Is this how I have spent my life?

Lying there with a broken heart on bedroom floors

And finally, finally, I realize

I realize that I’m only a man

I’m only a man

I’m only a man

I’m only a man

Watching this screen

These lives played out before my eyes

And how they know everything

Everything comes easy

I never had it easy

I was never lucky

It was never easy

And you sit there and you just my commitment

You people can say that I’m the bad guy

Because I was weak

I was weak once or twice

Well let me tell you

I am standing in the need

I am standing in the need

Because I can’t control this person behind my hands

(One thing I have to know, where did the miracles go?

And if a simple man believes

Will it start again with me?)

(If I were the maker I would fashion out a blade

To cut out every inch of dead heart I’ve made)