Hearts Can Break (Without a Sound)
HEARTS CAN BREAK (WITHOUT A SOUND)
I remember all the words I didn’t say.
I’m not sure they would have mattered anyway.
What kind of bargain could I make and she would stay?
Chorus:
Hearts can break without a sound
The life I thought we had, crumbles to the ground.
The darkness, pulling me, even further down.
(No intro)
It hurts to even hear her name.
I know we had tough times, but we tried just the same.
False confidence in love spirals down in flames.
Chorus:
(No intro)
Another night has come and gone
The tortured hours between midnight and the dawn
I’m alone again, I feel I can’t go on
Chorus:
Bridge:
(Instrumental first line)
The lonely nights will never end.
I’ve lost my lover and best friend.
This wounded heart may never mend
Instrumental Chorus
(Intro 2 times)
I remember all the words I meant to say
Now I know they didn’t matter anyway
--Her mind made up, she just turned and walked
away.
Last Chorus:
Hearts can break without a sound.
The love I thought we had, crumbled to the ground.
Darkness pulling me, even further down.
Outro (4 times)
This was the first song written for the new album. I love the dissonant chord that I use throughout this song, which resolves into an A major chord. It’s about breakups in my prior life. It captures the sinking into darkness that losing love can feel like. Leslie and I wrote this together, of course, but I came up with the main idea. After listening to it recorded I want to make sure to write that the guys partner, who is breaking up with him, is his lover and best friend. There’s no best friend who came between them. Scooter put layers of instruments on this song, and it was fun to watch and listen in the studio as he did overdubs with Fred Kosak (electric slide guitar) and Jack Maynes. Jack plays a little accordion on this, though it’s quite hard to discern it, as well as organ and whirly. When recorded live in the studio Fred played an acoustic guitar, and when I listen to this it’s difficult to hear which is his and which is mine.