LYRICS
VERSE 1
A
4am
D
Nothing is right
A
Because my heart is
G
somewhere else
C D
And bleeding out
A
Tonight
A
I never could
D
Just let you go
A C G
Or all these faces that I’ve known
D
I have no regrets
A
Of what I’ve made
D
But I have a sadness
G C A
I forget sometimes to name
CHORUS
D
So Heavy is this heart
G
That won’t let
A
Go
VERSE 2
A
Don’t think about it
D
Just go back to sleep
A
But still, my heart betrays me
G
digging up
C D
These memories that
A
I keep
A
The hope the tears
D
The fantasies
A C G
of all the things that we should be
D
And time has moved on
A
But I remember it all
D
So when it crashed down
G
Why
C
didn’t you
A
call?
CHORUS
D
Heavy is the heart
G
That won’t let
A
Go
BRIDGE
G
Didn’t you think about how
A
I
D
Was
A
There?
G
Do you not know
A
That I AM now
G
Don’t you remember
A
All the things
D
We
A
Said
G
And can I remind you
A
somehow
OUTRO
D
Heavy is the heart
G
That won’t let
A
Go
D
Heavy is the heart
G
That won’t let
A
Go
D
Heavy is the heart
G
That loves you
A
so
D
Heavy is the heart
G
That won’t let
A
Go
ABOUT THE MUSIC
One night, I woke up burdened by a past relationship that ended suddenly and sadly. There wasn’t any animosity between us, but there was a breach of trust and a reveal that she was living a different type of life than what she had been allowing me to see.
As a pastor, this wasn’t the first time I experienced it, nor the last. Yet there are some relationships that just stick with you. For no apparent reason, I woke up many years later sad, though, she had not been at the forefront of my thoughts. I came to the conclusion that though my mind wasn’t sad, my heart was. It still had not let go.
Reject is about the sad and lonely God who gives in a way that he can’t get back. As I was processing the finite way in which I worked through this relationship, I pondered the idea of an infinite God who stays sad at love lost, even while being happy at love gained.
This song is both an admission that my heart is heavy, even when I don’t realize it, and a cheap and finite try to commiserate with how God must feel about us.
JOSH McGARY. COM 