Though you se me a bird on a sleepy perch
Foolishly blind on a fruitless search
Smile at my childlike belief in romance
At my love of the flow and the strain of the dance
See I told you before and I’ll tell you again
Where you are now I’ve long gone and been
For the road that you travel I’ve taken the same
For the altar you search for I know the flame
It’s the heart of the man so hard to understand
It’s the heart of the man
It’s the heart of the man still crawling but will stand
And I’d save you my friend but it would be in vain
So off on your darkness and speed through the rain
It’s time that you dance and its time that you bleed
And become more at one with the act and the deed
And when you return your eyes will be light
And a cat o’nine tails is your tongue in a glove
And your heart would be wise to be foolish and free
You’ll have forgotten he, forgiven me
It’s the heart of the man so hard to understand
It’s the heart of the man
- Written by Jimmy MacCarthy
It’s the heart of the man still crawling but will stand
The heart of the man
It’s the heart of the man so hard to understand
It’s the heart of the man
It’s the heart of the man still crawling but will stand
The heart of the man
Jimmy MacCarthy 