Name: Bent Hearts
Duration: P00H04M39S
Description: Lyrically and conceptually, I think this is hands-down the best song I ever wrote. Too bad we sound so, so, so bored performing it. Anyway, it's the actual story of the affair behind the songs "Lunatic + Saturnine", "A Little Touch" and "For Nothing At All" from the "Depleted" album and the reason my ex referenced in the other songs on "Crushed" became my ex.

Bent Hearts

from Crushed by The Urbane Decay

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Lyrically and conceptually, I think this is hands-down the best song I ever wrote. Too bad we sound so, so, so bored performing it. Anyway, it's the actual story of the affair behind the songs "Lunatic + Saturnine", "A Little Touch" and "For Nothing At All" from the "Depleted" album and the reason my ex referenced in the other songs on "Crushed" became my ex.

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Boy: you called and I came
knowing I shouldn’t be here again

Girl: in the middle of the night

Boy: it ain’t right

Girl: between scrabble

Boy: and green tea

Girl: a tentative touching of knees

Boy: sitting thigh to thigh

Girl: I’ve only got a ‘U’ and an ‘I’

Boy: silent fingers hesitantly entwine
unsure of what is meant

Girl: relax, what could be the harm in holding hands?

Boy: it’s sweet and innocent

Girl: we won’t break hearts

Boy: they’ll just get bent

Boy: I think she heard a ‘rumour’

Girl: eight points

Boy: no, it’s a double letter score

Girl: then I guess it’s nine

Boy: M-I yours?

Girl: R-U mine?

Girl: why did you put down ‘qualms’?

Boy: ‘q’ on a triple word score

Girl: why don’t you spell it out?

Boy: I have my ‘doubts’

Girl: do you want more?

Boy: silent bodies hesitantly entwine

Girl: this was never my intent

Boy: relax, it’s okay for friends to cuddle

Girl: this will end in discontent

Boy: we won’t break hearts

Girl: they’ll just get bent

Girl: i called

Boy: and I came

Girl: knowing you shouldn’t be here again

Boy: in the middle of the night

Girl: it ain’t right

Girl: I get six points for ‘try’

Boy: you’d get more for ‘goodbye’

Girl: I just don’t have the tiles

Boy: you’ve been hoarding them for a while

Girl: silent fingers hesitantly let go

Boy: without words or argument
relax, no fault no fowl and no harm

Girl: it wasn’t without incident

Both: broken hearts
start out bent

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from Crushed, released January 1, 2006

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The Urbane Decay Toronto, Ontario

The Urbane Decay was an indie pop recording project mainly active between 2002-2010, mainly by Jakob Rehlinger, mainly maudlin and mopey.

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