Heal Me, I'm Heartsick
No Vacancy (Adam Pascal)
From the 2003 film School of Rock
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Heal me, I'm heartsick
I'm hungry and I'm broken
I'm haunted and weeping
The blood of heaven flowin' like a river tonight
Tears I can't fight on my own
I'm a haunted heathen
I'm hung and barely breathin'
The drownin' ocean, snuff the sun in motion
There's a pill on my tongue, a shot from a gun
The bottle's bottom
I'm lonely as a star
Heal me, I'm heartsick
Hungry, thought I could survive on you
Hear my heartsick hungry cry
I'm heartsick
Father, free me
Mama, woman, feed me
A child of fury, lost his way but don't worry
I won't stop till the dawn
I've been too long on the run
I grow strong and restless as a storm
Heal me, I'm heartsick
Hungry, thought I could survive on you
Hear my heartsick hungry cry
I'm heartsick
Heal me
I'm heartsick
I'm hungry and I'm broken
I'm haunted and weepin'
The blood of heaven flowing like a river tonight
Tears I can't fight on my own
So heal me, I'm heartsick
Hungry, thought I could survive on you
Hear my heartsick hungry cry
I'm heartsick
So heal me, I'm heartsick
I'm hungry, thought I could survive on you
Hear my heartsick hungry cry!
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From one of my all-time favorite films
comes this gem, which gets only a minor bit of it played.
Someone was smart and published the entire song,
which doesn't appear on Spotify or Tidal,
but was uploaded to YouTube.
I posted a simple statement regarding its excellence,
one that is now the video's top comment!
The judges in the film picked right.
This was the better song.
My connection to it is also Yaeko's:
for her it isn't a boy she's singing to,
but the despair that nearly consumed her
after a car crash killed everyone she loved
and paralyzed her from the waist down.
Years later, she falls in love for the first time.
The ballad's passion makes for a good sounding board
to their romance, a reflection of a time
where there was no hope of such a thing
ever happening to her.
This song is for you, Yaeko.
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Digital Art: Versional Lavendered by yours truly
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