The second song on Jackson Browne’s 2021 album, Downhill From Everywhere, is titled My Cleveland Heart. The hilarious YouTube video shows him having his heart replaced by an improbably large mechanical one. I recently saw him perform it on the PBS TV program Austin City Limits. That song’s humorous lyrics begin as follows:
“I’m going to make a few changes right away
The way I leap and the way I fall
The way I need somebody else’s eyes to see me
The way I need anyone at all
But I expect the real changes to start
When I finally get my Cleveland Heart
They’re made to take a bashin’
And never lose their passion
They never break, they don’t even beat
And they don’t ache, they just plug in and shine
Don’t make mistakes, and they don’t know defeat
Like my heart makes, like this broken heart of mine”
An image of a broken heart was adapted from a poster for Why Men Leave Home at the Library of Congress.
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