(arlen/harberg)



When a man's an empty kettle

He should be on his mettle

And yet i'm torn apart

Just because i'm presumin' that i could be kind of human

If i only had a heart

I'd be tender, i'd be gentle

And awful sentimental regarding love and art

I'd be friends with the arrows

And the boy who shoots the sparrows

If i only had a heart

Picture me a balcony

Above a voice sings low

"wherefore art thou romeo?"

I hear a beat, how sweet



Just to register emotion, jealousy, devotion

And really feel the part

I could stay young and chipper

And i'd lock it with a zipper

If i only had a heart

A brain, a home, the nerve