
The Kelly Song Collective
My Heart Is A Hearth
My heart is a hearth that’s covered with embers
cast clear from the flames that danced o’er the wood
My heart is a hearth ever inviting
warming the children and all that is good
My heart is a hearth of the heaviest stone
laid with the blood and sweat of ten men
My heart is a hearth in your living room
dirty and unseen and permanent
Though I seldom use the word I thought I’d take it on where it lives
And though the veil of metaphor is thinner than it usually is
My heart is a hearth from deep in my body
covered with soil cut from the earth
My heart is a hearth you’ve known it forever
Remember its turns forgetting its worth
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© Michael Worthington Music 2014

From the Song A Week project in 2014.
Mike Scott-ish.