Heart of Tin

Well she's a comely thing with a come-to-bed grin Spark in the eye and a pocket full of sin And if I saw her today I'd toast her with gin Tell her that I love her with my heart made of tin I was running from curses to all her sweet mercies With a body so warm as we spooned out the verses We've been through it all so give us your worst As we play out the night for all that it's worth It's the sweetest pain Like throwing me a lifeline and I'm drowning all the same And if it seems too bleak, we'll curl up together and whisper the words we can't speak Well we've rolled in the hay, blowing cobwebs away Drank through the night 'til past noon the next day I could see it coming, that price that I'd pay But I'd do it all again if only to hear her say... Now time and again while I stifle the yearning Wishing she were there as I wake up in the morning It's the sweetest pain Like throwing me a lifeline and I'm drowning all the same And if it seems too bleak, we'll curl up together and whisper the words It's the sweetest pain Knocking down the walls meant that I let you in to my Heart made of tin with it's dents beaten in. My partner in crime, lover entwined. Let's curl up together and...