Intro:
Yeah, I’d like to dedicate this song to two good friends of mine
Phil Wonder and Jasmine Le’shea
Verse:
Yeah, I wish I coulda been there
When you first got the news
I had nothing to share
I just wanted to be there for you
Will you please use my shirt
We plead til our eyes hurt
Look we ain’t gotta speak
We’ll be bleak
Please it’ll be fine son
The Dr. said ya head is barely operable
It’s got ur brain low
When they go in here it’s gotta go
When you awake, walkn n talkn’ll be an obstacle
It’s hard to feel hope right in your will at 27 years old
But You never said I’m too young for this
Had a mumblin grumblin word on your tongue n lips
Like God why
Lift up your chin and pump ur fist
Like all these years of loving Him
And this is what I get
You know I had to cry
Lookin in your eyes you said in your life and death Christ will be glorified
This muscle in my chest is broken leakin but I’m in Jesus
Buts somethns underneath it a heart that never stops beatin
Hook:
Underneath these broken pieces there’s a heart
That never stops
When you feel your life is leavin there’s heart that never stops
It never stops beatin
Verse 2:
I wish I coulda been there
When she found it was surgical
That the thing affectin her airports was terminal
I can see the devastation on her parents faces
Your baby girl has a bad heart and it needs replacement
Born this way we can’t medicate it (huh uh)
Somebody has to die with a good heart then we’ll exchange it (yea)
Some sort of substitute or she won’t survive
John Q in real time (time)
She needs a savior
But she had one at fourteen it went down
Heart transplant so this one would be the second round (yea)
But this procedure isn’t near as crucial as the first
Cuz this new heart’ll stop beatin even if it works
She didn’t dwell on all the stuff that she would never be
If I don’t get picked from this list eternal joy’s ahead of me
The nurse said she’s in denial that’s why she keeps a smile
No she hoped in God and the donor came at the right time (yeah)
That’s why you hear her singing now
Hook:
Underneath (haha) these broken (sing it Jasmine) pieces there’s a heart (yeah)
That never stops
When you feel your life is leavin there’s heart that never stops
It never stops beatin
Verse 3:
I might not know what the answer is
But I know what the answer isn’t
It can’t be that He doesn’t care or He’s non existent
Sufferings a problem and why many are rejecting God
But just cuz you don’t know the answer doesn’t mean there isn’t one
What if God’s plan for pain isn’t for you to skip it
We need the nightmare to appreciate not bein in it
Deeper the pain deeper the gain upon this ending
Plus God would take our pain so serious He’d join us in it
Jesus suffered like none other when He was on the cross
Why do the good die? That only happened once
But the good rise, but not for good guys
He gives new hearts and eternal life to the ones who should die
He gives our pain purpose
This is not in vain
We endure, in joy, for the end joy of seein His face (haha)
It’ll all make sense then
Years of sufferin made up for in an instant
Bridge:
This may be the last breath that I take but it’s okay
It’s fine by me ohwoah
If for some reason I’m not here when you wake
It’s okay I’m where I need to be ohh
Underneath these broken pieces there’s a heart (the average lifespan of a heart transplant is 10 to 15 years)
That never stops (and my dear sister Jasmine is on year 11)
Never stops beatin
This moment in your lifetime (but as I get to know her the more I find out)
Is for only a lifeline
It never stops (no matter what happens she has a heart that will…never stop beatin)
It never stops beatin
This moment in your lifetime (hehe I love it)
Is for only a lifeline (yea)
It never stops
It never stops
It never stops beatin
