365 Days of Happy - Day 44

This is amazing. That is all I have to say about it.
Take a listen and read the lyrics below. It will grow on you, I promise.
Patrick, thank you so much for showing me this.

Listener - Wooden Heart

We're all born to broken people on their most honest day of livin'

Since that first breath we'll need grace that we've never given, well

Well I've been haunted by standard red devils and white ghosts

It's not only when these eyes are closed

These lies are ropes and I tied them to my stomach

But they hold this ship together tossed like leaves in this weather

My dreams are sails that I point towards my true north

Stretched thin over my rib bones and pray that it gets better

But it won't, at least I don't believe it will so

So I've built a wooden heart inside this iron ship

To sail these blood red seas and find your coast

Don't let these waves wash away your hopes

This war ship is sinking and I still believe in anchors

Pulling fistfuls of rotten wood from my heart, oh I still believe in saviors

'Cause we are all made out of shipwrecks, every single board

Washed and bound like crooked teeth on these rocky shores

So come on and let's wash each other with tears of joy and tears of grief

And fold our lives like crashing waves and run upon this beach

Come on and sew us together, just some tattered rags stained forever

We only have what we remember

Well I'm the barely living son of a woman and a man who barely made it

But we're makin' it, taped together on borrowed crutches and new starts

We all have the same holes in our hearts

Everything falls apart at the exact same time it all comes together perfectly for the next step

But my fear is this prison that I keep locked below the main deck

I keep a key under my pillow and it's quiet and it's hidden

And my hopes are weapons that I'm still learnin' how to use right

But they're heavy and I'm awkward and I'm always runnin' out of fight

So I've carved a wooden heart

Put it in this sinking ship hopin' it'd help me float for just a few more weeks

But I am all made out of shipwrecks, every twisted beam

Lost and found like you and me all scattered out on the seas

Come on let's wash each other with tears of joy and tears of grief

And fold our lives like crashing waves and run upon this beach

Come on and sew us together, we're just some tattered rags stained forever

We only have what we remember

My throat it still tastes like house fire and salt water

I wear this tide like loose skin, come on and rock me to sea

If we hold on tight we'll hold each other together

And not just be some fools rushin' to die in our sleep

While these machines will rust, I promise, but we'll still be electric

Shockin' each other back to life

Your hand in mine

My fingers and your veins connected

Our bones grown together in time

Our hands entwine and my fingers and your veins connect

And our spines grown stronger inside

'Cause I know that our church is all made out of shipwrecks

From every hull these rocks have claimed

But we pick ourselves up, try and grow better with this change

Come on and let's wash each other with tears of joy and tears of grief

And fold our lives like crashing waves and run upon this beach

Come on and sew us together, we're just some tattered rags stained forever

We only have what we remember