STITCHES IN MY HEART

Stitches in my heart (Behind the song) Lyrics by Jennifer Logan  Melody by William Elton Hendrix

My vocal teacher had stitches in her heart and the lyrics that she had written had not been set to music so we collaborated on the song with her words and my melody the stitches in her heart came to life in song. The song is about a former close friend she had that she   never could please or satisfy what the friend  required. She found it hard to meet up to the perception and centralized inflexible focus of such a friend whom she admired in spite of the different conceptions. She may have felt much like David’s expressed fellings at Psalm 69:20 during his itme of mistreatment, “Reproach has broken my heart, and the wound is incurable. I was hoping for sympathy, but there was none, And for comforters, but I found none”.  Those words also predicting the mistreatment of the coming messiah (Jesus) written over 1000 years before his birth also expresses the feelings we all encounter when faced with someone that is maybe more focused on seeking their own glory and wanting others to exalt them as well and find mistreatment a tool when they can’t get what they require.  Proverbs 25:27  counsels , “It is not good to eat too much honey, Nor is it glorious to seek one’s own glory”. It is hard to satisfy such a person and that may have been the case in the circumstance expressed in the lyrics of the song , “Stitches in my heart”.

LYRICS

STITCHES IN MY HEART

by:ELTON HENDRIX AND jENNIFER LOGAN
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LAST TIME I SAW YOU

Bm                                               Cm7

YOU WERE WAVING ME GOODBY

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I DON T THINK WE KNEW –IT WOULD END THIS WAY

A                                     F#m

LAST TIME WE TALKED

Bm                                                                        Cm

YOU KNOW ,,ALL I COULD DO WAS TRY

D          E                                                            A

AND APOLOGIZE FOR FALLING SHORT AGAIN

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        BUT I NEVER MEASURED UP

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        TO BE THE FRIEND YOU NEEDED

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        NEVER FILLED THE ROLE JUST RIGHT

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        AND I WOULD START AGAIN TOMORROW

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        IF I KNEW,    I D PLAY THE PART

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        BUT ALL I VE GOT LEFT NOW—IS A BRUISED AND WEARY HEART

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        AND ALL I VE GOT LEFT —ARE THESE STITCHES IN MY HEART

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YOU KNOW I LOVED YOU AS MY SISTER

Bm                                                 Cm7

AND WHAT I NEVER TOLD YOU

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WAS I ENVIED EVERY FACET– OF YOUR SOUL

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BUT I GUESSS WE RE JUST TOO DIFFERENT

Bm                                                                           Cm

FROM THE GROUND ON WHICH WE STAND

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CAUSE IT SEEMS TO ME—I CAN T REACH YOU ANYMORE

      A                                                      D

        OH I NEVER MEASURED UP

                                                          E7

        TO BE THE FRIEND YOU NEEDED

       A                                                     DM7                      E7

         COULD T HEAL YOUR WOUNDS ALL RIGHT

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          NOW THE CANYON RUNS DEEP—MUCH DEEPER

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          LIKE THESE STITCHES IN MY HEART

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          GUESS I NEVER LEARNED—TO PLAY THE PART

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          AND ALL I VE GOT LEFT —ARE THESE STITCHES IN MY HEART

(INSTRUMENTAL)

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NOW THE CANYON RUNS DEEP—–SO MUCH DEEPER

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LIKE THESE STITCHES IN MY—–HEART