Hearts A Mess

Hearts A Mess is from the Gotye album Like Drawing Blood

Produced by Wally De Backer, in bedrooms around Melbourne, VIC, Australia between 2004 and 2006

(Walter De Backer/Irving Burgie/William Attaway), © 2008 Copyright Control (APRA)/Lord Burgess Music, administered by Cherry Lane Music Publishing Company (ASCAP).
Hearts A Mess contains adapted elements of Day-O (Irving Burgie/William Attaway), Cherry Lane Music Publishing Company, Inc. (ASCAP)/Lord Burgess Music Publishing Company (ASCAP), Administered by Cherry Lane Music Publishing Company, Inc. (ASCAP). All Rights Reserved.
Strings, harp, guitar, double bass and drum sample recreations on Hearts A Mess produced by Hal Ritson and Richard Adlam for ReplayHeaven.com with Guthrie Govan on guitar, Richard Adlam on percussion and programming, Hal Ritson on keyboards and Cerys Jones and Laurine Rochut on violin

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Pick apart

The pieces of your heart

And let me peer inside

Let me in
Where only your thoughts have been

Let me occupy your mind
As you do mine

You have lost

Too much love
To fear, doubt and distrust

(It’s not enough)
You just threw away the key

To your heart
You don’t get burned

(’Cause nothing gets through)
It makes it easier
(Easier on you)
But that much more difficult for me
To make you see…

Love ain’t fair
So there you are
My love

Your heart’s a mess
You won’t admit to it
It makes no sense

But I’m desperate to connect

And you, you can’t live like this

Love ain’t safe
You won’t get hurt if you stay chaste
So you can wait
But I don’t wanna waste my love