CHROME

Someone sent me this song today. It's perfectly written, perfectly performed and it just moves me. It's SO me. Maybe it's you, too... It's a great song about the choppy waters that love and relationships can be.

CHROME
by Matthew Ryan

It's not the things that I can't change that bother me
It's not the things that I don't know that undermine me
It's not the thing that I can't hold or the balancing wire that broke that throws me
It's not the fact that you walked out that bewilders me
It's not the sleep that I can't steal that wires me
It's not the coffee or the pills
It's not this space that I can't fill
That kills me

Well in case you didn't know I've got a heart made of chrome
It's been bent 'til it was twisted
And in case you didn't know I've got a heart made of chrome
It's been burned but it's still willing to try
And shine

It's not the drunks and their devices that provoke me
It's not the politics of love and distance and all that that shit evokes in me
It's not the Sunday morning fights or this soul on ice that numbs me
It's not the passing of another Indian summer that saddens me
It's not the shutter in the undertow that bears down on me
It's not everything ending as it begins
Or the loneliness that grins
That destroys me

Well in case you didn't know I've got a heart made of chrome
It's been bent 'til it was twisted
And in case you didn't know I've got a heart made of chrome
It's been burned but it's still willing to try
And shine