Artificial Heart Lyrics - Clam Dip & Other Delights - Soul Asylum

It's a second hand story no one wants to hear 

And it's wet with blood, salted with tears 

It's black and white and red all over 

Happens all the time 

This was something about an artificial heart 

She lived in a sleepy town trailer home park 

Where not many people go out after dark 

Innocent helpless at 17 

Queen of every loser's wet dream 

Which brings us to our villain but a mother could love 

He liked amputation and the Lord above 

He kidnapped her on her way home from school 

She lost her mind, he lost his cool 

She didn't tell him about the artificial heart 

?? then some kid found her head 

Then an arm and a leg and you know the rest they said 

The artificial heart it was still beating 

With a needle and a thread they sewed on her head 

She's alive and well like she was never dead 

She doesn't remember the day she didn't die 

Or how everybody cried 

She read a story in the paper how she was victimized 

And you should have seen the look in her eyes 

Her assailant was acquitted and as she read 

I swear she laughed off her head