HOLE IN MY HEART
(words and music by Rick Springfield)
Where are you running my love
Through the back streets of the city
You're keeping an eye on the horizon
Looking over your shoulder
Must be some demon driving you
I must have looked like a prime one
Running after you thinking we still could survive
But nobody I've ever loved ever hurt me like you did
With that lack of feeling
I've got a Hole In My Heart
You know that I've got a Hole In My Heart
But I won't beg, no baby
I won't beg, anymore
You're nothin' but a taker
A real heart breaker
Who ever hurt you so long ago baby,
He must have been a master
you're learning fast
I've got a Hole In My Heart
You know that I've got a Hole In My Heart
But I won't beg, no baby
I won't beg, anymore
Nobody I've ever loved ever hurt me like you did
With that lack of feelin'
I've got a Hole In My Heart
You know that I've got a Hole In My Heart
But I won't beg, no baby
I won't beg anymore
I've got a Hole In My Heart
I've got a Hole In My Heart
I've got a Hole In My Heart
(total playing time: 3:12)
SONG FACTS:
Lisa Hartman covered this song on her
self titled release.
It appears on the following releases:
Working Class Dog and Legendary
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Funny thing about this song, I actually have it on
cassette by Lisa Hartman and had listened to her version and was use to her version.
So later when I heard Rick sing it, I actually liked hers better (I can't believe I'm
admitting to this out loud, and in writing). I've recently gone back and listened to
hers again, ok, what the hell was I thinking?
Anyway, I don't think I realized exactly what he was saying until I listened to the
demo "such lack of feeling",
Demo: "you steal from the rich and you throw it away" - that was an interesting
line. I always wonder what the process is after the demo is made going into the
final cut and what happens to where the words get changed.
Two things that are fundamentally wrong with this
song.......Rick Springfield should NEVER have a hole in his heart (if this song was
written from personal experiences...the reason for the hole should spend eternity in a
really hot place) and Rick Springfield should never have to beg anyone for anything.
Simple as that.
Wow, I'm flabbergasted at myself at how I butchered the words of
this song. See, this is why I'm an advocate of putting the song lyrics in the liner notes!
Here's how thought the song went, and boy am I mad at myself for singing it entirely wrong
for 20 years!
I thought Rick was saying, "We're running, running my love, through the back streets
of the city. You're keeping an eye on her eyes, looking over your shoulder" Not
"Where are you running my love?" And "keeping an eye on the horizon! I
guess that makes more sense. I had to go back and listen to this song again! Then the part
"nobody I've ever loved ever hurt me like you did with that lack of feeling"
sounded to me like "nobody I've ever loved never hurt me like you did "and I can
feel it!" Man I suck at song lyrics. Here's more: "Who ever hurt you so long ago
baby, he must have been a master, you're learning fast" Sounds more to me like,
"Who ever hurt you so long ago baby, he must have been a mystery, but I can feel
it". Making an appointment with an audiologist today, I've apparently had a hearing
problem for years! LOL
I love Rick's voice in this song. I don't know if it's the key he's singing in, or what
exactly it is, but it sounds different to me, and this has always been one of my favorites
on this album. I never really thought about it until now what exactly would cause Rick to
write this song. This was a very up & down album, WCD. Lots of wanting, needing,
hurting going on. Rick wants Jessie's Girl, then he's pickin' up a new girl in LIAT, then
we go to HIM where he was obviously burned. Further on down the line is IDEFY, which back
in 1981 I had no idea Rick did not write. No wonder why in 1998 he tells us he’s got
the soul of a gigolo in IAS. I think you're track record is showing here Rick.
I remember watching something that Lisa Hartman was singing this song on. I knew at the
time that this was a Rick song, and being the cynic I am, of course thought that no one
held a candle to Rick's performance. In fact, I'm still biased! LOL
I like this version a whole lot better than what is on the demo on the GHA collection. I
can see why Rick made the changes. All those songs sound so foreign to me when I listen to
them now.
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