She Wants To Play Hearts

Author: Ryan Adams

Official Appearance:

Demolition -- Ryan Adams
Unofficial Appearance: The Suicide Handbook -- Ryan Adams

Alternate Demolition -- Ryan Adams

Notes:

Ryan Adams to Uncut Magazine: "My favorite song on the album and from The Suicide Handbooks.  The songs from that might have been the follow-up to Heartbreaker, but I didn't want to be the bummer king, so I made Gold instead.  Now I want to be the bummer king again, because someone's got to do it.  A lot of the songs from that session are about a girl in Hollywood.  It was a painful break-up, so I went back to Nashville, lost weight, took too many drugs and wrote that song.  It's about missing someone and maybe missing myself."

Played Live:

02/14/01 11/13/02 11/18/04 06/03/05 02/18/06
02/17/01 11/15/02 10/17/06
12/04/02

Lyrics:

I am a broken toy
For a lonely girl
Use once and destroy
And go find some more
Back home, kids play in the leaves in the park
She wants to play a game of hearts
I'm the rag doll boy
With broken eyes
She only comes to me
When it's raining outside
Back home, kids play in the leaves in the park
She wants to play a game of hearts
I fell for you
I fell for you
Why? 
I guess I wanted to play too.
And here's the lonely string
Playing along in my head

For only just my arms
Are dancing marionettes
Back home, kids play in the leaves in the park
And she wants to play a game of hearts
She wants to play a game of hearts

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