Map of My Heart - Mary Chapin Carpenter

The map of my heart looks a lot like yours

From one way streets to the old detours

To the dark dead ends with their missing signs

The sun and the moon and the roads that wind

Like the stories we tell

Tracing the roots

Wind in my ears

Dirt on my boots

The map of my heart is torn at the corners

From ignoring the warnings, disobeying the orders

I’ve been lost in a crowd, found in solitary

I’d learned how to travel with just what I could carry

Towards the vast unseen and the great unknown

The map of the heart is all that we own

Leaving safety to chance and reason behind

X marks every spot, I thought I’d lost my mind

I didn’t think that I could but I couldn’t stop trying

And I can’t stop trying to hold in my hands

That moment I could feel my heart expand

With more love than I thought could exist in the world

The hollows were gone, the emptiness filled

With life transformed down to the bone

This map of my heart is all that I own

Do we ever stop longing and looking for home

Do we ever stop feeling apart and alone

Do we ever stop dreaming of where we belong

This map of my heart looks a lot like yours

This map of my heart looks a lot like yours