Lyrics The Human Heart - Brian Dewan

The Human Heart

In our day-to-day experience it has always been concealed
In the operating theater it now may be revealed
I saw the glistening human heart lying in repose
So tender and so vulnerable, beating and exposed
The human heart is a lustrous thing
A wondrous thing, the human heart
Look at the patient lying open wide
It cannot hide
The human heart
It has a passionate temperament, as everybody knows
Gushing grandiose sentiments as a toilet overflows
Throwing violent tantrums and prone to fits of rage
It can’t keep still, it rolls around in its ribcage
The human heart is a preposterous thing
A monstrous thing, the human heart
Enlisting sympathy with vulgar sobs
It pounds and throbs
The human heart
And yet it lives for love and duty at its own behest
A lifetime through of work to do with ne’er a moment’s rest
Sustaining vital organs, anointing them with blood
Devout in its vocation of vital organ-hood
The human heart is an untiring thing
An inspiring thing, the human heart
Despite the heartaches of the rolling years
It perseveres
The human heart
What strange abomination holds fancy over fact
What byzantine mutation would love what can’t love back
What kind of freak of nature forgives a heinous crime
And leads us towards as yet untraveled paths to the sublime
The human heart is an inscrutable thing
An immutable thing, the human heart
The human heart is an untiring thing
An inspiring thing
A preposterous thing
A monstrous thing
A lustrous thing
A wondrous thing
The human heart