The Finches - How To Keep Your Heart Hate-Free lyrics

Why be cruel Tel l me why be cruel There's a brave new world that's waiting Something is keeping you in Why put them down They've got lots of other things to worry about right now And though you're not the first Your hostile still hurts But how to keep your heart hate-free I don't know so don't ask me Why not turn your cheek Well if kindness is the mark of the weak Please let me be, let me lie down so low And crumble to become complete Where does love go when it leaves Does it climb in my pocket to hang with my house keys… So why be cruel Tell me why be cruel There's a brave new world that's waiting Something is keeping me in True they stooped low But I knock them and raise them ten fold In a circular game It's so hard to refrain But how to keep your heart hate-free I don't know The exchange started slow You were thoughtful and thought I should know So I opened my mind Held my tongue for a time Til a straw sent me tumbling down, down, down Stranger than the fight It was quiet and harder to make right But righteous from wrong will reveal in a song Called how to keep your heart-hate free Forget it, and move on Why be cruel Tell me why be cruel There's a brave new world that's waiting Nothing is keeping us in (repeat)