Song Description

Finding true love

Lyrics

Know By Heart © 2011 Ken Kahn

I am well aware that I am not a simple man
The things I want to turn out plain become these complicated songs
Start out strong, but not for long, I don't stick to the plan
But there's a vision in my head, and I have kept it all along
I can't tell you how I know - It's just an instinct that is sure and slow

I had to find it out over and over, 'cause I learn in the way I do
Taking every hard step up to the top - Now I appreciate the view.
Now it's a short life, time is like money; How you spend it becomes an art
And who you spend it with. What could be better than a love that you know by heart?

New beginnings, early innings, they go to your head -
Like all the ones you got to know, and all the ones that turned you on.
Every moment every hour there's a warning bell
A distant ringing as we find a few new ways to get it wrong
Well, I can't tell you how to love - And I can't tell you who will be true, it's true

You'll have to find it out, over and over if you learn in the way I do
Taking every hard step up to the top; Then you'll appreciate the view.
Hey yeah and it's a short life, time is like money. Can you spend it to strike a spark?
You've got to ask yourself: What is it worth to find a love that you know by heart?

You good friend, become my lover, a bit like night and day
Before and after light had dawned and we knew we both felt this way.
Sudden, strange but so familiar, how we got this far
And made this baffling transition to this love we know by heart
I can't tell you why it's so, but I'll pass this on before I go.

You'll have to find it out, over and over if you learn in the way I do
Taking every hard step up to the top. Can you appreciate the view?
I know that it's a short life, time is like money; How you spend it can be so hard:
Take every short cut, that ain't the way to find a love that you know by heart

Guess you'll have to try it out, over and over, 'cause you learn in the way I do
If you take each hard step up to the top, you should appreciate the view.
We know that it's a short life, time is like money; How you spend it, well that's the part:
The part where you remember all that you did to find a love that you know by heart

Hey yeah and it's a short life, time is like money. Can you spend it to strike a spark?
You've got to ask yourself: What is it worth to find a love that you know by heart?