You Missed My Heart

Broke into her house, saw her sitting there Drinking coke and whiskey in her bra and underwear Saw him in the kitchen hanging up the phone I asked him nicely once to pack his things and go He gave her a reassuring look, said he wouldn't leave But I asked him one more time, this time pulled out my shiv Stuck him in the back and I pulled it out slow And I watch him fall down as the morning sun rose He looked at me He said You missed my heart You missed my heart You got me good I knew you would But you missed my heart You missed my heart Were his last words before he died Looking out the window up at the blue sky Listening to her scream, listening to her cry A feeling of relief came over my soul I couldn't take it any longer and I lost control I chased her up the stairs and I pinned her to the ground Underneath the whimpering I could hear the siren sound I rattled off a list of all the things I miss Like going to the movies with her and the way she kissed me Driving into downtown Wheeling, showing her off Backyard barbecues and reunions in the park I said I missed her skin when she started laughing While I clenched down on her wrists, she said That's quite a list But there's one thing you missed You missed my heart You missed my heart That's quite a list But what you really missed You missed my heart You missed my heart That's quite a list But what you really missed Running through the parking lot, running through the fields Policeman on my back, something hit my skull and cracked They dragged me off to jail, set a million dollar bail Where I tried to tie a noose but I failed and I broke loose I went racing through the prison yard, shot down by a tower guard He got me in the shins and he got me in the arms They strapped me in the gurney, took me off to the infirmary Where the priest read my last rights And just before everything went dark I said, You missed my heart You missed my heart He got me good I knew he would But he missed my heart He missed my heart And just before everything went dark The most poetic dream Came flowing like the sea Laying there my life blood draining out of me A childhood scene, night sky, moonbeams Fishing with my friends, sitting in the wild reeds Watching the Ohio river flow at night Waiting for the bullhead catfishes to bite Down river from the Moundsville prison graveyard