Sounds

You start with a broken heart. It is a complete shock at first because it turns your whole world around. You try looking for answers - to understand why and how you got to this place, but often times there is no conclusion or response...only silence. And yes...you go on living, but everyone is so happy it seems, and you...well you try to be that happy person and not ruin everyone's good mood, but it is pretty impossible. You will break out in tears or miss a conversation or someone asking you a question because you are wishing for that one person to be sitting next to you or experience that moment with you. You are just sad and hurt because you wonder why love was not returned in the same way and what made it so hard for someone to love you back. You are left in pieces. You don't want to be here alone and broken - when they walked away, they took part of you with them. Now, it feels like the only option is to face what lies ahead, and you try to convince yourself nothing is wrong and good will come, but you are still in pieces, alone, crying, and sleepless.

When A Heart Breaks (listen here)
by Dave Barnes (at Blueberry Hill, November 4)

No one ever told me
It would come to this
What began with such a promise
Would end with such a twist

I lean into the whisper
But I don't hear a thing

It's a tear in the dark
All alone in the car
In pieces, in pieces
It's the sound of mistake
As I lie here awake
Sleepless, sleepless

This is the sound that is made
When a heart breaks

Everybody's laughing
Maybe that's just me
Does something unrequited
Mean it will never be

I lean into the whisper
But I don't hear a thing

It's a tear in the dark
All alone in the car
In pieces, in pieces
It's the sound of mistake
As I lie here awake
Sleepless, sleepless

This is the sound that made
When a heart breaks

Please don't leave me here

Life, for now, I've come to fear
You've dropped me off and left me here
With nothing here to find my way
But the lights you take as you pull away

Far ahead the brush is moving
There's others here and good is proving
Nothing's wrong, it's in my mind
Nothing's wrong and I'll be fine

It's a tear in the dark
All alone in the car
In pieces, in pieces
It's the sound of mistake
As I lie here awake
Sleepless, sleepless