Paper Heart - Jane Wiedlin

Those were the days we had high hopes

And promises long since broke

You were a friend of mine, oh-oh

In a more innocent time, oh-oh

Poetry ran like blood through our veins

We’d talk for hours then start up again

We were family, oh-oh

You meant so much to me, oh-oh

There are many of us

With hearts made of stone

(Hearts of stone)

You were never that strong

I wish I’d known

You got a paper heart and it’s tearing

You got a paper heart and it’s wearing out

Like yesterday’s news

You’d be gone before long

Now I hear the news, secondhand

What’s become of you?

I can’t understand

And it breaks my heart, oh-oh

That we drifted apart, oh-oh

You’re not real anymore

You’re papier-mâché

Whatever you were

Has long since blown away

Like a paper heart that’s been tearing

You got a paper heart and it’s wearing out

And you can’t kick

You’ve been down too long

You got a paper heart that’s been ripped up

Nothing left in you that ain’t mixed up

And I can read it in your eyes

That you’ll soon be gone

You’re not real anymore

You’re papier-mâché

Whatever you were

Has long since blown away

Like a paper heart that’s been tearing

You got a paper heart and it’s wearing out

And you can’t kick

You’ve been down too long

You got a paper heart that’s been ripped up

Nothing left in you that ain’t mixed up

And I can read it in your eyes

That you’ll soon be gone

You got a paper heart and it’s tearing

You got a paper heart and it’s wearing out

Like yesterday’s news

You’d be gone before long