For a sophisticated heart

Discretion is the lesser part of happiness

For a sophisticated heart

I can love you better

I can love her too

There’s nothing that this big ol’ heart won’t do

I can love you better

There’s enough to go around

I’ll catch and lay you gently on the ground

Beware the simple mind that operates the strings

Of a sophisticated heart

For lack of common sense we all believe the myth

Of a Sophisticated heart

Leave your common yearning

Your petty happiness

We’ll build a house of cards and stack the deck

Love is just an answer

Devotion just a clue

I’ll ask for neither one of you

You were falling, like a fragile leaf

Crawling from some other tragedy

I’m Rasputin in a one horse town

I’d love to lay you gently on the ground

I’m bringing love to the walking wounded

Like some splatter day saint

Spreading joy and ashes

Looking for a house to fingerpaint

Gently tip your hat and walk amongst the ruins

Of a sophisticated heart

Bid a fond farewell and offer praise to love

And, sophisticated hearts

I hesitate to leave you

By the river’s edge

Like the sun resists the river when it sets

I’m running water’s mystery

Your pooling water’s dream

Ashes float and drift downstream

Ashes float and drift downstream...

Copyright 1991 Matthew Lacques, Nearly Beloved Music, BMI