Wild At Heart [Lyrics]

[VERSE 1]

On the long summer nights, we`d meet between his place and mine;
So scared of getting caught by our Mama`s, but it toughened up my spine;
And under that old oak, we`d sit and count out the prettiest golden stars;
Making empty promises together - naming the ones to be forever ours.
The gravel was wearing thin from running back home at the break of dawn,
Trying so hard to sneak in, but they were starting to catch on;
And in the moonlight with his hands in mine, consequence didn`t exist;
Every single thing faded behind me when he took me in his arms and we kissed,
And he held me tight like he meant forever, I didn`t want the summer to end;
But every straight road at one point or another has to bend.

[CHORUS]

My Mama told me that I shouldn`t be so damn naive,
Displaying my heart like I did on top my sleeve,
But I didn`t know any better, I was too young to care;
It was the middle of the summer, a few months to spare.
She forbade me to see him, but I still did late at night;
Under that old oak in his arms, where it felt so right -
And he told me when he said he loved me he meant it,
He`d love me day in and day out, he`d never go and quit.
Holding me steady, he laughed at my shaking breath;
As we fell hand in hand, it was either life or death;
And that Midsummer moon saw every inch of me,
But there was no other place that I`d rather be -
Then there with him, ripping myself apart -
Nothing mattered that summer, we were wild at heart.

[VERSE 2]

The summer ended and his Mama tore him away from me,
But through it all, I`m glad that he wasn`t there to see -
The angst that I threw around, as I tried to forget;
The time we swore up and down that we`d never regret.
And in a heart-shaped box on my floor I saved everything,
All the pictures and letters and that old promise ring;
Every now and then, I still go back and stand under that old tree;
Remembering the few months when nothing mattered but him and me.
And how bittersweet it is when your fairy tale has to end,
And your first love has to become just another long lost friend.

[BRIDGE]

I grew up and listened, tore my heart off of my sleeve;
Adopted resistance and threw away naive.

[CHORUS]

My Mama told me that I shouldn`t be so damn naive,
Displaying my heart like I did on top my sleeve,
But I didn`t know any better, I was too young to care;
It was the middle of the summer, a few months to spare.
She forbade me to see him, but I still did late at night;
Under that old oak in his arms, where it felt so right -
And he told me when he said he loved me he meant it,
He`d love me day in and day out, he`d never go and quit.
Holding me steady, he laughed at my shaking breath;
As we fell hand in hand, it was either life or death;
And that Midsummer moon saw every inch of me,
But there was no other place that I`d rather be -
Then there with him, ripping myself apart -
Nothing mattered that summer, we were wild at heart.

-Jenna Elphick
September 2, 2007