Heart Song - Jake Morley (Live from Folk Alliance, Montreal)

Stream / buy: http://smarturl.it/heart-song From the album Tell It To Me Straight Vol 1: https://jakemorley.bandcamp.com/album... Official Website: https://jakemorley.com Video by Mark Lewis and Thomas Dibb from Northern Cowboy Films: https://www.northerncowboyfilms.com/ Shot in the iconic postered corridors of the ‪@FolkAlliance‬ Conference at Fairmont, The Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal, Canada 2019. With thanks to Crispin Parry and all at British Underground: https://www.britishunderground.net/ And Neil Pearson from Sounds Just Fine Music: https://www.soundsjustfine.com LYRICS And so we turn my friends once more to matters of the heart A word that's used so much I hardly know where to start Yours is hungry for adventure It's a little left of centre I'm so very grateful for your heart Perhaps the thing I love the most is its profound compulsion To pump your blood around your body of its own propulsion Moving oxygen and energy With unfailing regularity I'm so very grateful for your heart So often celebrated Maybe it's overrated And your skin keeps out the weather It holds you all together And I can’t help wondering whether I'm Equally grateful for your skin Now you have a beautiful heart But other organs deserve our love too How come we never hear such songs about the lungs or liver You’ve a fine pair of the one and an impressive example of the other When you tell me that you love me Or pour yourself a glass of whisky I'm so very grateful for your lungs and your liver And when we say heart that’s just a code for something in the brain I want no part in that encroaching theft of word terrain Plus did you know without the head You could even wind up dead I’m so very grateful for your brain I put this to a friend A doctor of medicine She said without a kidney You'd be in trouble quickly Turns out the body is a complex machine of highly interrelated essential systems Each composed of many unsung heroes Now you have a beautiful heart But other organs deserve our love too And so my friends the time has come to recap from the start I'm grateful for your skin Yes grateful for your lungs and liver Grateful for your brain And whether you're talking love or veins I'm still so very grateful for your heart