Don't Act Like Your Heart Isn't Hard

from Beck Hansen's Song Reader by Song Preservation Society

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Don’t act like your heart isn’t hard
And that the joker isn’t your card
Changing your tune as you put up your guard
And go whistling past a graveyard

You can change your mind
Like you’re changing your clothes
Through you dress in rags
And you turn up your nose
When it makes no sense
I will act like it does
And come to your defense
Though I have no weapons

So don’t act like your heart isn’t hard
And that the truth in your head isn’t dark
You can’t turn Tin Pan Alley into a boulevard
And go whistling past a graveyard

Don’t want the pretense of what love shouldn’t be
It will bore you to death before setting you free
To be just as good or bad as you are in the eye of a storm
We will both be sorry

You could hide your tears
Behind the façade of a thousand jokes
You thought I forgot
And then blame me for no longer laughing

Everyone’s cruel at times
When you’re not at your best
And you’re crossing the line
I’ll look past your mistakes
If you look past mine
And go stumbling past a gold mine

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from Beck Hansen's Song Reader, released December 21, 2012

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