O my heart, it's a fish out of water

O my heart, it's a fish on the rocks and it bakes in the bad sun

O my heart, it's a rock in the gutter

O my heart, it's a rock and great boulder, and stuck in the gutter

And I throw my heart back to the ocean

But it don't go far, it come back floating

And I watch it wash up with the dead fish

But it ain't quite dead, it just is like this

O my heart, it's a house in tornado

O my heart, it's a house in the sky in the eye of tornado

O my heart, it's a roof in El Niño

O my heart, it's a roof made of straw in the jaw of El Niño

And I pour my heart a new foundation

But it don't set hard, it just stays shaking

And I scratch my name, I scratch my name in

But it don't set hard, it gets mixed back in

Bum-bum-bum, bum-bum-bum, bum-bum-bum, bum

Bum-bum-bum, bum-bum-bum, bum-bum-bum

Bum-bum-bum, bum-bum-bum, bum-bum-buh

O my heart, it's a fish out of water

O my heart, it's a rock in the gutter

O my heart, it's the black in a rainbow

O my heart, it's so damn cold, so damn cold

And I throw my heart into the fire

'Cause I want to set my heart on fire

And I watch it try, befriending embers

But the ice don't melt in mid-December

O my heart, it's a fish out of water

O my heart, it's a fish on the rocks and it bakes in the bad sun