Aspirin

Written in 1994 and recorded in the fall of 1995 for "60 Watt Silver Lining." It was debuted live at the Great American Music Hall in March 1995 and played solo and with a band through to late 1996. The early demo from July 1995 was initially just called "Will Your Heart Always Be Broken" before being changed by the time the album was released in march 1996.
Is the pain they cause you
Your final destination
It's just going to make you
Hate your own reflection
You try and endure it
But you know you gotta give in tell me
Why such a cheap thing
Always hides the real thing

My love
Though all you had was stolen
Tell me will your heart
Always be broken

The little hero
Who threw away your life
Feeling hate and being proven right
Always looks into mirrors trying to see
Bullets instead of eyes
Sees a handsome devil who's
The spirit of the skies

Relax my love
It's just the gates of hell swinging open
I hope your heart won't
Always be broken

Hate seems like
The sun in the heavens
And there's nowhere to run
No way to get even
Just hide in the shadow
Of your own making
And hold your head high
Even if you're faking

The goal I guess
Is to be like glass
Transparent to anyone looking through
But our lives aren't like that
And once the glass is broken
You do the best
You can do

Relax my love
Though this time the world wasn't joking
I hope your heart won't
Always be broken

I hope your heart won't
Always be broken