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Four Chambered Heart
Tom Russell
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We break and train our children just like animals
We fill 'em up with parasites and poison dreams of fear
We hand them false gods on a golden platter
Then we remind them to watch behind their ears
We gave up our own dreams so the kid could go to college
Then they grow up and resent us
Accuse us of impossible psychological crimes
The normal relationship in hell is about getting even
But you won't find that in your Sunday New York Times
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Anger, sadness, hatred, envy
These are just fear wearing the same old cheap mask
You're doomed if you don't learn forgiveness, sister
We're all driving around lost, we don't know who to ask
We're all stopping at abandoned gas stations to ask directions
There's no more road maps to tell us who the hell we are
Raised on TV commercials, organized religion
Following corrupt wise men who've been navigating by the wrong star
When a man and a woman couple up there's really four people talking
Hidden people, outer images, who you gonna start?
So two people in love are like one big old crocodile
Crocodiles have four-chambered hearts
Crocodiles have four-chambered hearts
Now they tell me there's some guy down in Dallas named Olie
He's running some type of early
Christian community down there I'm told
Well the Gnostic gospel said whatever you bring forth will save you
Everything you don't bring forth will shatter your soul
Christ said my kingdom is not of this world, but hell
They went and built their earthly kingdoms anyway
Then they paid out millions of dollars to defend pedophile priests
Meanwhile people are living in the gutter holding signs
"Have you hugged your kid today?"
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We reach the end of the road and find
Out no one else can make us happy
We've waged all the wars of drama and control
We've sacrificed it all for wives
Husbands, money, children, false religion
That old line about gaining the world but losing your soul
So it's always back to living with yourself
Or whoever it is living in your body
Grandpa said don't put the horse before the cart
Me, I'm just an old alligator swimming through dark uncharted waters
And alligators have four-chambered hearts
When a man and woman couple up there's
Really four people always talking, talking
Hidden person, outer person, where the hell you gonna start?
Two people in love are just one big
Old crocodile swimming through the mud
Crocodiles have four-chambered hearts
I said crocodiles have four-chambered hearts
Crocodiles have four-chambered hearts
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