Please Bypass This Heart
By: Jimmy Buffett, Will Jennings, Michael Utley
1985
"Close your eyes and click your heels, think of skating rinks and
spinning wheels. Of those who will and those who won't, some
hearts break while others don't."
Every day I read about these operations
That make a heart that's weak so strong again
I relate it to my own situation
And now I know just what to say to you
Chorus:
Please bypass this heart
Until I'm well again
Let's not even start, to fall, where we fell again
The cheating was sweet but my heart is beat
Don't tear it apart
Please bypass this heart
Please bypass this heart
In simpler times I didn't need a lotta healin'
My heart was young and strong and worked just fine
But now you've shown me there's a hurtin' side of feelin'
There's just one cure and here's what you must do
Chorus:
Please bypass this heart
Until I'm well again
Let's not even start, to fall, where we fell again
The cheating was sweet but my heart is beat
Don't tear it apart
Please bypass this heart
Please bypass this heart
-- Spoken:
"Skaters reverse"
"Couples only"
"All skate, all skate"
Chorus:
Please bypass this heart
Until I'm well again
Let's not even start, to fall, where we fell again
The cheating was sweet but my heart is beat
Don't tear it apart
Please bypass this heart
Please bypass this heart
- Notes:
Background Vocals: Timothy B. Schmit, Harry StinsonThis tea's too strong for me
As I await your company
I had too much sun today
Ocean waters wash away
Nothing but the present
Presenting its presence
This island life
Separate my right from my wrong
No I am not pagan
But my heart has been forsaken
And the hand of God was on my mind
It took some time from time to time
Now in the course I know
Time itself will go when
This island life
Separates my right from my wrong
You forgot your shoes and I
I have sent a message but I
There's so many stars in the sky
It's the truths that will not lie
There's a you wild native maiden
Running mad and barefoot to the sea until
This island life
Separates my rights from my wrongs
This island life
Finally separates my right from my wrong
This tea's too strong for me
As I await more company
I had too much sun today
Dram of lands lying far away
Pregnant with the present
Presenting its presents
This island life
Separate my right from my wrong
This island life
Will separate my rights from my songs
Separate my right from my wrong
Gordon Gano: vocal, guitar, violin
Brian Ritchie: upright bass, electric sitar
Guy Hoffman: drums, percussion
Luisa Mann: vocal
Recorded and Mixed by David Vartanian at DV's Perversion Room, Milwuakee, WI
⌦ãœn㬴 Gorno Music reprinted with permission