Took You Two Years To Win My Heart - Owen Pallett

Took you two years to win my heart

Then two words to break it The love you ignited,

You firefighted and roared

Bellowing into the rainy night

They say heartbreak is good for the skin

But all that it’s helped is my drinking

Picking fights with myself and my friends

And my friends threatening to do me in Took you two years to win my heart

Then two words to break it More surprising than two years of lying is how people let you get away with it Saturday sleep-ins with no distractions

Summer sun and songbirds

Once kept afloat on a venetian boat

Blotted out by your two words

Mighty Leon, wind the tape

And be sure of one thing

Every song from a heart this mangled

Will be draped in strings, strings, strings