They say that it's your heart that hurts When it lacks the love to make it work Your blood will boil, your chest will burst Your foolish pride is at its worst And if your blood is not scalding hot It's freezing cold, your veins they clot or scab Like an electric chair You know it's ending quick but painful
With lonely hearts and foolish pride It makes no difference to be defined It's just the way we talk about When love runs out When love runs out
You'd think a heart that's broken Would just shrivel and compact The valves they'd shut, the pressure build The seams and sinews warp and crack And though that's quite poetic You know that doesn't make it true In fact the brain does much more suffering Than a muscle like the heart will ever do
Your mind's a fragile thing Romances wrecks it's wiring Your senses dull, your logic's gone And you can't even see or talk to anyone
And if everything just stays the same Expands and then contracts And symbolism won't line up with scientific fact And when you say your heart's decaying I know that's your way of saying You just don't know how to be on your own You just don't know how to be on your own
With lonely hearts and foolish pride It makes no difference to be defined It's just the way we talk about When love runs out When love runs out (x2)