Slapstick Heart

Album: Omnipop (It's Only a Flesh Wound Lambchop) (1996)
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  • Painted smile but I don't feel the part
    In dream I hold your knife over my heart
    The edge is higher the closer I get
    When I jump you move the net

    I keep falling for this slapstick heart

    Hanging on your words
    I thought I'd known
    The rope is cut and I'm falling on my own
    The comedy in the tragic disbelief
    Of only human

    To make you laugh is there nothing I won't do
    Any pain I won't go through
    Lost my balance fell like rain
    I half expected you to do the same
    But you cried an ocean and broke my fall
    That's when I knew I couldn't swim at all Writer/s: BILL BERRY, MICHAEL MILLS, MICHAEL STIPE, PETER BUCK, SAM PHILLIPS
    Publisher: CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Hipgnosis Songs Group, Universal Music Publishing Group
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