kurtz

"the greeks were right! it's the heart that matters. don't try to tell me it's all in my head, cause thinkin' too much only gives me a headache (a relatively minor annoyance) and i know where i hurt when promises are broken and dreams die. and that lump in your "throat" when your first born starts walking or talking back, that's your heart, fool, ten sizes too big, bangin' away at your chest, hollerin', "LET ME OUT OF THIS BOX, AND I WILL REALLY FUCK YOU UP!" and sometimes you do and sometimes you don't and sometimes your little bitty feeble ass mind'll fool you again and tell you "I'M RUNNIN' THIS MOTHERFUCKER!" but just let the beast out of the box and hide and watch how fast ol' bad ass brother brain'll cut and run. but heart is a dumb animal, muscle and blood, a pit bull on a mission and he's hangin' in like gunga din, good to the last drop of blood."

steve earle
may 1997