Keep Your Heart

In the dark of the night I found Without my love, my love, these words are not a bit profound, if it's just another cheap line flung.

Outside ecstatic love, what did we think we'd find? Over that broken road, out past the land mines.

I'm gonna keep your heart I'm gonna keep your heart. With the world all falling apart, I'm gonna keep your heart.

Can I coax it out its shell Brush the dust off Get its wings on In this little bell We will also feel the singing, oh

Shine on, light of love On all these bruises and scars Ruins in every less But it can't cancel out the stars

Dropped all your clothes and life Wonder who won mine Kneeling above this playful body Teach Superman to fly

How'm I gonna keep your heart? How'm I gonna keep your heart? If the world all falls apart How'm I gonna keep your heart?

Time alone will tell If you're the kind who keeps the veil on Biding time will tell us When and if to sail on

All these blues I have cried Seem to have come undone Tried all the new designs Still ended up in love

Still we're kind of shy You've nothing to be ashamed of Though its hard to tell If I'll ever feel the same love

I'm gonna keep your heart I'm gonna keep your heart If the world all falls apart Still, I'm gonna keep your heart

i know these aren't the full lyrics, but i was hoping that by posting them we could figure out the rest of the song together because i can't discern anything else they're saying or find any other lyric transcriptions on the interweb.

dear tv on the radio: you make my heart explode, but i'm still mad at your releasing nine types of light without a lyric booklet >:(.

I don't intend this to be so much what I actually think this song is about as much as this is just me sharing a weird observation I made just now.

As it happens, I just happened to be watching a clip from the interview with Dahmer the other day, and in it he was discussing the nature of his compulsions. And, as is fairly well known, he stated that, for some reason, he felt that somehow he felt that preserving the bits of the people he was murdering he could preserve the peak of their relationship. And this made me realize, though the reality of the acts which he committed were horrifyingly reprehensible, that revelation in a light makes him into a very tragic character.

Maybe Tunde was taking some influence from Dahmer's story, I don't know, but the imagery of "kneeling above this playful body" conjures up images of a loving couple's foreplay, but at the same time the specific use of 'body', which could have been equally replaced with a word such as 'person' or 'woman', while 'body' has the inherent possible connotation of 'corpse', especially in combination with the equally potentially double-entendric line 'Dropped all your clothes and life'.

And a heart can be a soul. Or it can be a heart.

Dropping the somewhat wild premise of the psychotically misguided lover-turned-killer, this song is most certainly about the deeper underlying theme of such a premise, which is the deep-seated fear of the impending dissolution of a relationship which many of us have, and the resultant unrequited urge to somehow preserve the emotional glory of its peak.

But it's totally about a psychotic murderer.

I have loved this song for a long time. But never understood some of the lyrics. I keep studying them. I have loved "It's A Wonderful Life" the movie even longer. Cant help but notice the connection and why did I never notice it before....the whole movie is about the choice not to commit suicide..

consider it this way...

Dark of the night I found, without My Love, my love (Thinking of suicide, without Mary there, he comes to see his life differently by the events that transpire throughout the movie... which is how the movie starts...and so does the song) Outsider ecstatic love, what'd we think we'd find (George Bailey-ecstatic) over that broken road out past the landmines (he wanted away from that town and didn't make it on his honeymoon. didn't make it past the landmines.)

Im gonna keep your heart, im gonna keep your heart, with the world all falling apart, im gonna keep your heart. (Mary gave him the honeymoon money to save the Buidling and Loan)

can I coax it out its shell, brush the dust off, get its wings on, here in this little bell, do you also hear the singing love. ( the infamous bell where the angel gets it wings while the community sings)

shine on light of love on all these bruises and scars The moon isn't a friend of us (possible play on Shakespeare. don't sware on the moon everchanging, George Bailey promised to rope it) but it can't cancel out the stars ( The stars in heaven talking and the people praying for George when he looses it- Even on the brightest moonlit night the brightest stars still shine. His problems on his darkest night didn't outshine their prayers)

Drop all your clothes and Lies( about Mary dropping her robe and threatening to get it back) Wonder Woman of mine, kneeling above this playful body, teach superman to fly. (George was a superman of sorts, could do it all, but he needed Mary!)

chorus How 'm I gonna keep your heart (angel shows a different story, a life without him)

Tell a little tale, you're the kind that keeps the veil on...Biding time will tell us if and when to sail on... ( He was stalling George, and Biding time, making him think, he was removing the veil from George's thinking, that he didn't matter)

All these blues I've cried, seem to 've come undone, Tried all the new liasons, still ended up in love. ( He sees things differently after seeing the new twist without him in her life) Still we're kind of shy, you have nothing to be ashamed of, girl its hard to tell if I'll ever feel the same love, ( he will never feel the same after seeing her life without him)

I'm coming back to... (or turning back not sure) I'm coming back in love keep coming back for more... for more..... (the movie stole an endless Christmas audience that indefinitely comes back for more) repeat chorus and still, I'm gonna keep your heart.