What Good Is A Heart
Arum Rae Lyrics
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Take me
With your hands
With your hands
Wake me
To a love so simple
With your hands
With your hands
What good is a song
If I can't sing it with you
What good is my heart
If there's no one to give it to
Find me
I've waited my life away
For your touch
For your touch
Lead me
I will follow
You till the end
Till the end
What good is a song
If I can't sing it to you
What good is my heart
If there's no one
What good is a song
If I can't sing it to you
What good is my heart
If there's no one
Save me
Make me
With your love
With your love
Arum Rae's "What Good Is a Heart" is a song about the search for love and companionship. The lyrics describe the desire to be saved and taken care of by someone who can wake up the singer's heart to a love so simple. The singer is tired of waiting for her significant other and hopes to be found and led by him. The song expresses the difficulty of life without someone to love and to sing songs with. The chorus repeats the question "what good is a song if I can't sing it with you, what good is my heart if there's no one to give it to?" The lyrics emphasize the importance of connection and the need to share life with somebody in order to find one's purpose and fulfillment.
The repetitive nature of the lyrics serves to emphasize the longing and desperation the singer feels towards finding love. The use of hands to take and wake the singer up, as well as to make and save her, adds a tactile element to the emotional plea for a partner. The song expresses a kind of bleak romanticism with its emphasis on the emptiness of life without love, and its need for purpose and fulfilment.
Line by Line Meaning
Save me
Please come and rescue me from my current situation
Take me
Take me away from this place and my current problems
With your hands
Using the power of your touch and love
With your hands
Again, emphasizing the need for physical and emotional touch
Wake me
Please awaken me and help me see love again
To a love so simple
To a love that is pure, uncomplicated, and easy to understand
With your hands
Again, emphasizing the importance of touch and connection
With your hands
Still emphasizing the power of physical touch
What good is a song
What purpose does a song serve
If I can't sing it with you
If I don't have someone to share the experience with
What good is my heart
What is the use of my heart
If there's no one to give it to
If I don't have someone to share my love with
Find me
Please come and find me, I'm waiting for you
I've waited my life away
I have spent all of my life waiting for you
For your touch
I have been waiting for your affection and attention
For your touch
Still waiting for that physical touch
Lead me
Please guide me towards love and happiness
I will follow
I am willing to do anything to find love and happiness
You till the end
I will follow you until the end, no matter what happens
What good is a song
Reiterating the same question from earlier
If I can't sing it to you
Still asking, what is the use of a song without someone to share it with
What good is my heart
Again, questioning the usefulness of her heart
If there's no one
If there is no one to love and share her heart with
Save me
Reiterating the plea for someone to come rescue her
Make me
Reiterating the desire to be transformed and filled with love
With your love
Asking for love and affection from someone else
With your love
Stressing the importance of love, and specifically love from someone else
Contributed by Jordyn S. Suggest a correction in the comments below.