Song Lyrics

Just outside the place
Two people face
Each other merely by chance

Abandoned by words
And the purpose they serve
It stops them right in their tracks

How long has it been
Since this feeling within
Has made you forget who you are?

Let's you believe once more in the moon
Let's you have faith again in the stars
Let's you go free 'cause someone broke through
The wall around your heart

Now the world is unkind most of the time
And most of the time we survive
Hard look at yourselves and love double crosses
That all broken hearts seem to find

After giving too much
They're afraid of the touch
'Cause the last just left a scar

If you believe once more in the moon
And if you have faith again in the stars
You can go free 'cause someone broke through
The wall around your heart

There's walls made of steel
There was walls made of stone
But none are so strong
As the walls made of fear alone

Sooner or later, it's all human nature
Propelling you forward again
It's the step and the chance, the turn and a glance
Asking, where in the world have you been?

But you don't have to answer
'Cause now you're a dancer
And the music is ready to start

You can believe once more in the moon
You have faith again in the stars
And you can go free 'cause someone broke through
The wall around your heart

You can go free 'cause someone broke through
The wall around your heart

Mary Carpenter, Mary Chapin Carpenter

The duration of Wall Around Your Heart is 4:14 minutes and seconds.