Move yourself [We have to make and keep our commitments to get out of ruts. See blog posts Commitment and I Love Crazy]
You always live your life
Never thinking of the future [But some of us do the opposite--live our lives never enjoying the moment. I think it's a balance.]
Prove yourself
You are the move you make
Take your chances win or loser [Use our Agency!]
See yourself
You are the steps you take
You and you, and that's the only way [We know that it is not all about me, myself and I, yet when we focus on the topic of Agency, our God-give gift to choose who we are, what we will become, who we will be with, and how close we will live near God, we must understand that now is the time to make a choice!]
Shake, shake yourself [Wake up.]
You're every move you make
So the story goes
["O that ye would awake; awake from a deep sleep, yea, even from the sleep of hell, and shake off the awful chains by which ye are bound, which are the chains which bind the children of men, that they are carried away captive down to the eternal gulf of misery and woe." ~2 Nephi 1:13
"Behold, he changed their hearts; yea, he awakened them out of a deep sleep, and they awoke unto God. Behold, they were in the midst of darkness; nevertheless, their souls were illuminated by the light of the everlasting word; yea, they were encircled about by the bands of death, and the chains of hell, and an everlasting destruction did await them." ~Alma 5:7]
Chorus
Owner of a lonely heart
Owner of a lonely heart
Much better than a
Owner of a broken heart
Owner of a lonely heart
[It's about living our lives, risking our hearts to enter into relationships instead of avoiding them in fear of getting hurt. Be wise but if it breaks, it breaks. "The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit." ~Psalms 34:18]
Say - you don't want to chance it
You've been hurt so before
Watch it now
The eagle in the sky [I imagine this as Christ. He is the eagle in the sky that we need to watch. "But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all." ~Isaiah 53:5-6]
How he dancin' one and only
You, lose yourself ["For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it." ~Luke 9:24]
No not for pity's sake [So well said! "Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward." ~Matthew 6:16]
There's no real reason to be lonely
Be yourself
Give your free will a chance
You've got to want to succeed [!]
Repeat Chorus
After my own indecision [Don't doubt. Make a choice. "Look unto me in every thought; doubt not, fear not." ~D&C 6:36]
They confused me so
Owner of a lonely heart
My love said never question your will at all [Trust your heart. Listen to the Holy Ghost. "Yea, behold, I will tell you in your mind and in your heart, by the Holy Ghost, which shall come upon you and which shall dwell in your heart." ~D&C 8:2]
In the end you've got to go
Look before you leap
Owner of a lonely heart
And don't you hesitate at all - no no
["Behold, you have not understood; you have supposed that I would give it unto you, when you took no thought save it was to ask me. But, behold, I say unto you, that you must study it out in your mind; then you must ask me if it be right, and if it is right I will cause that your bosom shall burn within you; therefore, you shall feel that it is right. But if it be not right you shall have no such feelings, but you shall have a stupor of thought that shall cause you to forget the thing which is wrong;" ~D&C 9:7-9]
Repeat Chorus
Sooner or later each conclusion
Will decide the lonely heart
Owner of a lonely heart
It will excite it will delight
It will give a better start
Owner of a lonely heart
Don't deceive your free will at all [Don't fill yourself with substances or other forms of Pseudo Peace that will just blind you to your true needs. This is the day we're supposed to work out our salvation within the bounds the Lord has set. See blog post Real or Pseudo: Which do you Choose? and Do I Have Room in My Inn?]
Don't deceive your free will at all
Owner of a lonely heart
Don't deceive your free will at all
Just receive it
["And now, as I said unto you before, as ye have had so many witnesses, therefore, I beseech of you that ye do not procrastinate the day of your repentance until the end; for after this day of life, which is given us to prepare for eternity, behold, if we do not improve our time while in this life, then cometh the night of darkness wherein there can be no labor performed." ~Alma 34:33]
["But behold, your days of probation are past; ye have procrastinated the day of your salvation until it is everlastingly too late, and your destruction is made sure; yea, for ye have sought all the days of your lives for that which ye could not obtain; and ye have sought for happiness in doing iniquity, which thing is contrary to the nature of that righteousness which is in our great and Eternal Head." ~Helaman 13:38]
