the beat of your heart

the beat of your  heart

he calls her baby

just wanna know you made it

river run rough today

and skies are dark and dangerous

she pulls the chains in

puts the coins up the table

a staggering leap of faith

will carry her through the fray

and god only knows

the sound comes and goes

with the beat of your heart

the beat of your heart

a quick turn of her pretty head

will beat the voices back intead

of raging on into the light

falling hard into the fight

she gathers up her nerve to speak

delivers up the words the creep

into the audience away

with dischord and disarray

and god only knows

the sound comes and goes

with the beat of your heart

the beat of your heart

she slumbers to the final note

with gutted finery she floats

a song is such a fancy thing

she wears it like a diamnod ring

she calls him from the empty stage

baby i am so afraid

come get me fast, come get me now

your silly rode-a-o clown

and god only knows

the sound comes and goes

with the beat of your heart

the beat of your heart