YOU MISSED MY HEART
[Verse]
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Broke into her house.
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Saw her sittin’ there,
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Drinking coke and whiskey
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in her bra and underwear.
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Saw him in the kitchen,
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hangin’ up the phone.
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I asked him nicely please
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to pack his things and go.
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He gave her a reassuring look,
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that said he wouldn’t leave.
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But I asked him once again
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and this time pulled out my shiv.
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I struck him in the back
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and I pulled it out slow,
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Watched him fall down,
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And as the morning sun rose,
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He looked at me and said:
[Chorus]
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“You missed my heart,
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you missed my heart.
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You got me good.
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I knew you would.
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But you missed my heart,
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you missed my heart.”
[Verse]
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Were his last words,
D
before he died.
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Looking out the window,
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up at the blue sky,
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Listening to her scream,
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listening to her cry.
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A feeling of relief
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came over my soul.
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I couldn’t take it any longer
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and I lost control.
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I chased her up the stairs
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And I pinned her to the ground,
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And underneath her whimpering,
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I could hear the sirens sound.
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I rattled off a list,
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of everything I missed
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Like going to the movies with her
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And the way she kissed me.
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Driving into Wheeling
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and showing her off.
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Backyard barbecues
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and reunions in the park.
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I said I loved her skin
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and she started laughing
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And while I clenched down on her wrist
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She said “That's quite a list.."
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“But there’s one thing you missed.
[Chorus]
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You missed my heart,
D
you missed my heart
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That’s quite a list,
Bm
but what you really missed,
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You missed my heart,
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you missed my heart
[Verse]
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That’s quite a list,
D
but what you really missed.”
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Running through the parking lots
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Running through the fields
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Policemen on my back
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Something hit my skull and cracked
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They dragged me off to jail,
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set a million dollar bail
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Where I tried to tie a noose,
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but I failed and I broke loose
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Went racing through the prison yard,
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Shot down by a tower guard
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He got me in the shins
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And he got me in the arms
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Strapped me in the gurney
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Took me to the infirmary
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Where the priest read my last rites…
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And just before,everything went dark, I said:
[Chorus]
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“He missed my heart,
D
he missed my heart
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Just before, my world went dark,
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Said he missed my heart,
D
he missed my heart”
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And just before,everything went dark,
[Outro]
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The most poetic dream
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came flowing like the sea
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Lay in there my life,
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but draining out of me
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A childhood scene then,
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sky moon beams,
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Fishing with my friends
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sitting in the wild lands
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Watching the Ohio river flow at night
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Waiting for the bullhead catfishes to bite
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Downriver from the Moundsville prison graveyards…
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Downriver from the Moundsville prison graveyards…
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Downriver from the Moundsville prison graveyards...