Broken Heart
By: Alexander 'Skip' Spence

Original Performance: Alexander 'Skip' Spence
Written by: Alexander 'Skip' Spence

Versions:
  1. Broken Heart (3:43)
    Available on Oar.
    Credits
    Recorded at: Sunset Sound Studios
    Nels Cline: Guitar (Acoustic Slide)
    Beck Hansen: Guitar (Acoustic)
    Jeff Tweedy: Guitar (Acoustic), Vocals
    Mikael Jorgensen: Piano
    Feist: Vocals
 
Lyrics:
Broken Heart [Version (a)]:

A broken heart would be lovely, broken on the ground
A knife stuck in the ribs of me would be better be found
Hanging tree blow gently, a noose would be ignored
Then to stand upon the receiving end of the right hand of the Lord

Like a thirsty cowboy, in a lake, his tongue does rest
Jumps in and he cannot swim and drowns himself to death
Or a frozen mountaineer, he chugs up to a stop
Catching his bootheel in a rock two miles from the top

An Olympic superswimmer whose belly does not flop
A super racecar driver whose pit, it can't be stopped
A honeydripping hipster whose bee cannot be bopped
Better to be rolled in oats than from the roll be dropped

A broken heart would satisfy, broken in a mess
A severed eye would gratify my soul, I must confess
I'd rather have no eyes at all, be blind upon the floor
Then to stand upon the receiving end of the right hand of the Lord
Then to stand upon the receiving end of the right hand of the Lord
 
The Song:

"Broken Heart" is a song from Skip Spence's album, Oar. The song is one of the more country-flavored tunes on the album.

Beck and his third Record Club project covered Oar in its entirety. Jeff Tweedy and Feist sing it as a folky duet, as Nels Cline adds some acoustic slide guitar licks.
 
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the original by Skip Spence: