Sara Willow - This Piece of My Heart (2010)

This song is based on a poem I wrote many years ago after parting with a loved one and the piece of my heart permanently connected to him.

Last year, my brilliant friend Adam Epstein added a chorus and composed the music. It was first performed as a duet, but this recording is just me. Photo by Jocelyn Rogers.


Here are the lyrics. If you want to know the chords, let me know...

This Piece of My Heart

And now what becomes of this piece of my heart?
Do I leave it here with our memories?
The distance starts, it is here even now,
And cannot be relieved.

Oh, the path goes on.
Piece or no piece, we must walk on.
We have no right to make more wrong.
So long, so long.

I turned away and walked a step,
But that piece came not with me.
I paused, turned 'round again, and looked upon it,
A moment unmeasured by time.

No convincing would restore us now.
I removed myself from this,
But this piece is fixed here forever,
Like the pavement where we stood and said goodbye.

Oh, the path goes on,
Piece or no piece, we must walk on.
We have no right to make more wrong.
So long, so long.

A piece of your heart stayed too, I see,
When you stepped in your new direction.
And like ghosts we still are there together,
Sweetly, clearly, within our reflection.

Oh, the path goes on,
Piece or no piece, we must walk on.
We have no right to make more wrong.
So long, so long.

So, separate are we, I turn back no longer,
But still sense the distance grow behind.
My heart is missing that piece, that place,
But I see the next sure space in time.

An open clearing on my path,
Seems so far from where we parted.
This cannot heal the piece, it's lost,
But behold therein, a new piece started.

Oh, the path goes on,
Piece or no piece, we must walk on.
We have no right to make more wrong.
So long, so long.

Oh, the path goes on,
Piece or no piece, we must walk on.
We have no right to make more wrong.
So long, so long.
So long, so long.

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