| Open Up My Heart and I'll Show You My Love | |
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Vin 02:50 am UTC 02/19/10 |
| I started writing this on the train home from work last week after Meat broke the news. And posting it - okay, maybe just writing it at all - may be a tasteless faux pas of Meat Loavian proportions. But fuck it. Jim inspired it, and it comes from a very respectful place, so here it is. Open Up My Heart and I’ll Show You My Love I’m not sure which is colder The scalpel or the surgeon’s touch He assures me that I shouldn’t feel a thing And that’s exactly what I’ve felt Since the day that you walked out To have you at my bedside now is years of dreams come true Oh, its not the anesthesia talking Everything’s gone dark except for you! And just like old times You come to me when you know that I’m alone And just like old times When the porchlight fades you kindly guide me home But you said you never witnessed All the things you needed to see The deepest parts that make a man I kept locked inside of me So tonight I make it up to you, I’m laying myself bare With some help from modern medicine, A dice roll, and a gamble on a prayer Open me up! Open me up! Spread my ribcage wide until you’re sure you’ve seen enough Don’t look away! Don’t look away! I swear the nausea’s fleeting, babe, but I need you to stay So open me up! Open me up! Open up my heart and I will show you my love Hey I think I see an angel I didn’t know I’d closed my eyes But there’s my parents beckoning to me And I miss them and I’m tired Am I still the same old child? Still scared of what’s beneath the bed and what the closet light may show Aw, but I’m brave enough to face this truth If you are here there’s no way I can go! And maybe next time It’ll all work out because you’ll know the man I’ve been If there’s a next time You’ll be privy to all the things I keep within And if I ever hold you Like I did when we were young You’ll understand its all for you This man that I’ve become Because tonight I’m on display for you Let’s settle up the score So look real close, but fair is fair I’ll show you mine if you show me yours Open me up! Open me up! Crack this sucker wide until you’ve seen more than enough Don’t look away! Don’t look away! Nausea never kills you, babe, but I’m doomed if you don’t stay So open me up! Yeah, open me up! Open up my heart and I will show you my love (Open up my heart!) I’ll turn my insides out for you Show you all there is to see The good, the bad and the gore (Open up my heart!) And I swear to God if I pull through Well then the future’s just what it used to be And there’ll be no damned “if onlys” anymore! So open up my heart Its not my favorite organ Just the one I need the most And its only time until I rise, and reach, and pull you close And you’ll know how much you mean to me How much you’ll always mean to me Because I’ll open up my heart and I will show you my love | |
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