Story Behind The Song

I wrote the song while going through a confusing time in my romantic relationship.

Song Description

A woman begins a conversation with the words, Here's a hammer, break my heart. She's tired of the relationship and she's initiating a confrontation.

Lyrics

Here's A Hammer, Break My Heart



"Here's a hammer, break my heart", he looked up at the words
She said it once again I guess, to make sure that he'd heard
She said, "I'm so unhappy and you don't seem to care"
He said, "I don't understand", she said , "That's it right there. "

They talked about it all night long until she finally said
"Here's a hammer, break my heart so I can go to bed
and dream about the way things were and how they'll never be,
and cry into my pillow till I drown the history"

She said "I thought love would always be an easy thing,
A look, a smile, a touch, a kiss, a promise and a ring
Here's a hammer, break my heart, the pieces take in hand
Scatter them so I can never find them all again."

He said, in the darkness, "I don't want to be alone"
She said "you and I have made a darkness of our own
we can keep pretending, we can watch it all unwind.
Here's a hammer, break my heart and save us both the time."

He said, through his anger, through his fear and through the strain,
"Whats the hurry, whats the rush to dive into the pain?"
She said "the pain is freedom, the freedom a new start,
Though the tears I beg you, here's a hammer, break my heart"