Paper Hearts

There's no shame in standing up

And fighting for what you believe in

I could only hope that your firing squad

Is not trained intently on massacring me.



Hold out for far too long without a single word

And you'll fall back on what you feel and what you know

Intuition is your proxy and your heart is a secondary notion

My existence is nothing to you now.



Take your paper hearts and cut them up

Let them fall out your bedroom window

And blow out into the evening sky

Take your paper love and cut it up

Let it fall out your bedroom window

And blow out to float free and die



I sought to make what I could of this

But came up broken and empty handed.

I could only dream of happy times

When there was no rut I'd fallen in.



I could smile at you tonight across the way

But it'd go off undirected and unnoticed

Intuition is your proxy and you know what it'll say

I'm just a shadow of doubt on the wall of your heart



Take your paper hearts and cut them up

Let them fall out your bedroom window

And blow out into the evening sky

Take your paper love and cut it up

Let it fall out your bedroom window

And blow out to float free and die.