A reassuring song from the perspective of what you might say to your own heart to urge it it to stay open regardless of circumstances so that it can be a home for your courage, your bravest self.
lyrics
I know so well your pitter patter
And your places torn and tattered
Everything that ever mattered
Oh my heart
All the passion as it burned
All the love left unreturned
All the lessons you have learned
Oh my heart
Oh my heart may you stay open
May you become an ocean
So I can ride the currents
So I can feel the waves
Oh my heart may you stay open
May you become an ocean
So you can be a home for my brave
Thank you for the changes, you are bringing
In the song that you keep singing
And the rhythm you keep beating
Oh my heart
Please don’t hide the dream that’s broken
Please don’t bury words unspoken
First you close and then you open
Oh my heart
Oh my heart may you stay open
May you become an ocean
So I can ride the currents
So I can feel the waves
Oh my heart may you stay open
May you become an ocean
So you can be a home for my brave
No heart’s a shell, all hearts can tell
What promises will come
What’s better left undone
No heart’s alone, all hearts are homes
With rivers running through them
To bring love’s water from and to them
Oh my heart may you stay open
May you become an ocean
So I can ride the currents
So I can feel the waves
Oh my heart may you stay open
May you become an ocean
So you can be a home for my brave
So you can be a home for my brave
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