Heart Song - Jake Morley

And so we turn my friends once more to matters of the heart

A word that’s used so much I hardly know where to start

Yours is hungry for adventure

It’s a little left of centre

I’m so very grateful for your heart

Perhaps the thing I love the most is its profound compulsion

To pump your blood around your body of its own propulsion

Moving oxygen and energy

With unfailing regularity

I’m so very grateful for your heart

So often celebrated

Maybe it’s overrated

And your skin keeps out the weather

It holds you all together

And I can’t help wondering whether I’m

Equally grateful for your skin

Now you have a beautiful heart

But other organs deserve our love too

How come we never hear such songs about the lungs or liver

You’ve a fine pair of the one and an impressive example of the other

When you tell me that you love me

Or pour yourself a glass of whisky

I’m so very grateful for your lungs and your liver

And when we say heart that’s just a code for something in the brain

I want no part in that encroaching theft of word terrain

Plus did you know without the head

You could even wind up dead

I’m so very grateful for your brain

I put this to a friend

A doctor of medicine

She said without a kidney

You’d be in trouble quickly

Turns out the body is a complex machine of highly interrelated essential systems

Each composed of many unsung heroes

Now you have a beautiful heart

But other organs deserve our love too

And my friends, the time has come to recap from the start

I’m grateful for your skin

Yes grateful for your lungs and liver

Grateful for your brain

And whether you’re talking love or veins

I’m still so very grateful for your heart