You Missed My Heart

Broke into her house, saw her sittin' there

Drinking Coke and whiskey in her bra and underwear

Saw him in the kitchen, hangin' up the phone

I asked him nicely once to pack his things and go

He gave her a reassuring look, said he wouldn't leave

But I asked him one more time, this time pulled out my shiv

Stuck him in the back, and I pulled it out slow

And I watched him fall down, and as the morning sun rose

He looked at me

He said, "You missed my heart, you missed my heart

You got me good, I knew you would

But you missed my heart, you missed my heart"

Were his last words before he died

Lookin' out the window up at the blue sky

Listenin' to her scream, listenin' to her cry

A feeling of relief came over my soul

I couldn't take it any longer and I lost control

I chased her up the stairs and I pinned her to the ground

And underneath her whimpering, I could hear the sirens sound

I rattled off a list of all the things I miss

Like going to the movies with her and the way she kissed me

Drivin' into downtown Wheeling, showin' her off

Backyard barbecues and reunions in the park

I said I missed her skin, when she started laughin'

While I clenched down on her wrist, she said, "That's quite a list

But there's one thing you missed"

"You missed my heart, you missed my heart

That's quite a list, but what you really missed

You missed my heart, you missed my heart (you missed my heart)

That's quite a list, but what you really missed"

Runnin' through the parking lot, runnin' through the fields

Policemen on my back, somethin' hit my skull and cracked

They dragged me off to jail, set a million dollar bail

Where I tried to tie a noose, but I failed and I broke loose

I went racin' through the prison yard, shot down by a tower guard

He got me in the shins, and he got me in the arms

They strapped me in the gurney, took me off to the infirmary

Where the priest read my last rites

And just before everything went dark

I said, "He missed my heart, he missed my heart (you missed my heart)

He got me good, I knew he would

But he missed my heart, he missed my heart" (you missed my heart)

And just before everything went dark

The most poetic dream came flowin' like the sea

Layin' there, my lifeblood drainin' out of me

A childhood scene, night sky, moon beams

Fishin' with my friends, sittin' in the wild reeds

Watchin' the Ohio river flow at night

Waitin' for the bullheaded catfishes to bite

Downriver from the Moundsville Prison graveyard

Downriver from the Moundsville Prison graveyard

Downriver from the Moundsville Prison graveyard

Downriver from the Moundsville Prison graveyard

Downriver from the Moundsville Prison graveyard