Dark Dark Heart Lyrics - Singles - John Wesley Harding

In an office two miles underground 

They can't tell night from day 

Secretaries typing errors of judgement 

In eternally full in-trays 

Phones ring in, get put on hold 

Well I'm just waiting for my nails to dry 

I was coming unstuck with nothing to show 

You stuck to him like felt on velcro 

But now he's gone solo 

He's taken all the amps, smashed the bedside lamp 

Taken all the lightbulbs and the decorative wheelclamps 

You got a dark dark dark heart 

It's the heart of darkness 

Now you live in a filing cabinet 

You're another painful smiling face 

What you had doesn't even have the grace 

To be forgotten without a trace 

It lies, it cheats, it moans, it bleats 

Almost human in every detail 

In this stinking room, no-one goes to bed 

There's nothing to say that hasn't been said 

It's not enough to wish you were dead 

You had the last laugh but he didn't know why 

He jumped out the window, man, he thought he could fly 

You got a dark dark dark heart 

It's the heart of darkness 

Look at your body well you're lying still 

There's a smile across your face 

At the funeral yesterday 

Your corpse looked out of place 

You looked like death to the gathered throng 

But I knew you were laughing inside 

Something about your sense of humour 

Based on innuendo and rumour 

You were the ultimate consumer 

I took all your things, I threw away your wedding rings 

You had a big collection, baby, now they don't look so 

Fetching 

You got a dark dark dark heart 

It's the heart of darkness 

It's 4 am inside my mind 

But it's dusk out on the street 

The lamps are burning fireflies 

Who couldn't stand the heat 

I got cool bed linen, baby 

So the story should be complete 

But somewhere in the back of behind 

There's a light that makes me feel unkind 

Those stupid things I made you sign 

It ain't deus ex machina 

It's not some soul subpoena 

It's just when things mean nothing it makes you meaner 

You got a dark dark dark heart 

It's the heart of darkness