How's The Heart

[Fugazi]

How's The Heart (Human. :||: Nature. 2020)

Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8vuyd9M2LU (official lyric video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYtkPpFYzOo (live acoustic Planet Rock 2020)

 

Lyrics:

We see a mother with no child
We meet a stranger poor, exiled
How's the heart while it still beats?
Asks a no-one
Another John Doe

Sorrow hides well in your shell
A fellow man with hurt to spare
Dear one
Here I am to share the fear
An act of kindness
Without an amen

How's the heart
Underneath the silence?
How's the one
Drowning in the mire?
Let us sound a human paean
Come in, the fire's warm
Burn the rope and dance some more

We met where the cliff greets the sea
Shared a story, took the leap
Rose up rooted, hid a note
You know where
You've been there

 

Now there's one who came from me
A child of light, another tale
Dear one
Night will come but not to stay
Why?
The answer's in the

Fair winds my love
Fly towards the calm
Fly utterly lost
Towards a beating heart

How is that heart
Underneath the silence?
How is the one
Drowning in the mire?
Let us sound a human paean
Come on in, the fire's warm
Dull the blade and dance some more

 

From the band:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmkrnzFVT3c

Wise words from Tuomas:

"Human empathy, altruism, unconditional love,

They truly are the better angels of our nature, the nature of the human kind.

We have the potential to be such a great species, and in many ways we already are.

It's really important to remember to ask every now and then your family, your friends, a stranger, and yourself,

The question: How's the heart?"

 

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