Heart String Blues Lyrics

It is spitting like an open fire in a dark alleyway
It is sitting on the shoulder of every yesterday
It is shining a light in your eyes
It is checking every one of your new alibis

It is rising like the evening tide around an old shipwreck
It is tightening that pretty little noose around your neck
Oh and any second now it will choose
Yeah any second now all hell will break loose

So keep it safe keep it safe keep it safe
All of the thousands of you come down with the heart string blues

It is preaching all the virtues of love and providence
It would sell your soul for a sad song but it wont pay you rent
It is raising those old rebel flags
It is picking though your long buried ashes and rags

So keep it safe keep it safe keep it safe
All of the thousands of you come down with the heart string blues

It is singing its songs for the injured and dispossessed
It it pointing that twelve gauge of truth staright at your chest
Though its been broken more times than you know
Its blue and its bleeding its got a mind of its own

So keep it safe keep it safe keep it safe
All of the thousands of you come down with the heart string blues