Just a muscle

from Only ever a semitone from salvation by Al Roberts and a handful of nothin'

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Just a muscle

You can search for love
You can hope and pray
Stand on the street and hussle
But I’m here to tell you the cold hard truth
The heart is just a muscle

You may say that I’m a cynical guy
You may say that the heart will never lie
But biology doesn’t support your claim
If love exists it’s only in name

(extra unused verse;
I thought I had love, it was only pain
You said it was real you should be ashamed
I tried to believe but it’s plain to see
It only pumps blood from A to B)

Love is mythological, pathological
A far from logical dream
A game for the mean ones.

I think it is time cupid should retire
Pack up his arrows of love and sweet desire
What could an angel know of mortal things
He’s just a drunken delinquent with wings.

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from Only ever a semitone from salvation, released December 11, 2016

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