Story Behind The Song

Anthony Esolen, Professor of English at Providence College, wrote a piece for "Touchstone Magazine" that contrasted the women featured in online pornography with the Blessed Virgin Mary. The women on the internet offer love that is not love, he argued, a

Song Description

Some people have "forgotten how to smile again." Their homes have grown cold, and they are convinced their hearts were made for breaking. In fact, the only love they have in life comes from "fly-by-wire fantasies" where "lovers never get a single minut

Lyrics

YOURS FOR THE TAKING
(c) 2006 Feathermerchant Music BMI
Words & Music by Thomas C. Wyld
I see that you've forgotten how to smile again.
And that place that you call home? You've let grow colder.
Walk with me a while again, and feel the sun upon your shoulder.

Another of your well-attended disappearing acts
Is a tired message dragged into a folder.
Walk with me. Re-learn the facts. Feel the sun upon your shoulder.

Your thought that hearts were made for breakin'
Has left you lifeless, cold and shaken,
While life was made for livin', not for fakin',
And my heart is YOURS FOR THE TAKING.
YOURS FOR THE TAKING.

Your fly-by-wire fantasies are all you're livin' for,
Where lovers never get a single minute older.
Walk with me a minute more. Feel the sun upon your shoulder.

So many days in hiding from my knockin' on your door
So many nights in shackles, you can feel the chain no more.
Please, please. Just one second. Feel the sun upon your shoulder.

Your thought that hearts were made for breakin'
Has left you lifeless, cold and shaken,
While life was made for livin', not for fakin',
And my heart is YOURS FOR THE TAKING.
YOURS FOR THE TAKING.

You lose heart almost all the time
You lose hope like it's a place in line
There?s another way to start your day.
Instead of losing heart, give it away.
My heart is YOURS FOR THE TAKING.
My heart is YOURS FOR THE TAKING.