Story Behind The Song

I've seen it happen time and again.

Song Description

A guitar player's wife is breaking his heart because she parties all of the time. It may be that he has married his first love because he hasn't felt anything much in his heart until he found her. She "lives inside a cracked-crystal palace" in a world of hallucinations". It could be the crack or the crystal that has a grip on her. He has learned that love is over rated. She needs to leave.

Lyrics

Go Ahead And Break My Heart (I Did?t Use It That Much Anyway)
By......Jim Miller Copyright 2005
Em9 020032
Verse
Em B7 Em
You?ve been acting strange when you?re around me,
C G
Don?t think you act that way with your friends.
C G
You and I have had our share of problems
B7 C B7
And I think that we?re having them a-gain
Em B7 Em
For ten long years I gave you my affection,
C G
Sometimes you even gave me some of yours.
C G
I guess it?s me that?s going to have a heart ache,
D G Em
Since you don?t seem to have one, any more

Bridge
Em G
You live inside a cracked-crystal palace
Em G
While our little house, suits me just fine
Em G
Your world?s a series of hallucinations
C G D Em9 D
But mine?s real and your?s is in your mind

Chorus
G D G
If you?re gonna break my heart it won?t matter,
C G
If you break it tomorrow or today.
C G
I don?t like the way that you?ve been acting
D Em9 D
And I don?t like anything you have to say
G D G
Until we met the only time I?ve used it.
C G
was when I saw a starving little child.
C G
Things like that could almost make me lose it.
D G Em
Other than that , I only used it, once in a while.

Verse
Em B7 Em
When you married me you knew I played the guitar
C G
You said that money didn?t mean a thing
C G
The only thing you wanted was my loving
B7 C B7
Now I feel like I?m a pawn some damned game.
Em B7 Em
All you ever want to do is have a party
C G
Life with me is really quite a bore
C G
Can?t take the sort of life that your livin?
D G Em
And I can?t take much of you, any more.

Bridge
Em G
You live inside a cracked-crystal palace
Em G
While our little house, suits me just fine
Em G
Your world?s a series of hallucinations
C G D Em9 D
Mine?s real while your?s is in your mind


Chorus
G D G
If you?re gonna break my heart it won?t matter,
C G
If you break it tomorrow or today.
C G
When you go I?ve gotta feel better
D Em9 D
Than I?m gonna feel if you de-cide to stay.
G D G
Go back to your friends and all your parties
C G
Leave me with my music, to play
C G
Having a heart, was kind?a overrated.
D G
Didn?t use it all that much anyway;
D G
I hardly ever use it anyway;
D C.........................G
Sometimes the damned thing just gets in the way.....................