My heart has been locked in a steel cage
Inside a vault and buried deep inside
Everyone had the combination but me
It was always their playground and never mine
Most promised everything, and delivered nothing
They would take it out and throw it all about
It has been stomped on, burnt and stabbed
Some even dangled it from a string 
And used it as their fucking punching bag

It would sit on the sidelines and watch everyone else
Laughing, dancing, singing, swooning and enjoying
While it kept on beating, it was yearning to come out
The question it always asked, What would be enough?
With it just markin time I was dead inside and could hide
It wanted to open and to feel but the most it felt was a twinge
But it knew that was not enough for it come out and play
It got use to being locked away and there it wanted to stay
Because it felt no hurt or pain and it was able to remain denied

It wanted to forget the cold and have its turn out in the sunshine
So it can feel that white and red hot heat of lust and love 
Then one bright and normal day clear out of the blue
You felt more than a twinge, you felt a pull, one so strong
That surprised and shocked the shit out of you and me
You ask yourself what was it that finally broke it out
It felt and felt hard the real, the true and the genuine 
If felt safe enough to emerge from the steel cage 
The combination to the vault had been discovered 
But alas, it got it all wrong again

My heart has been locked in a steel cage
Inside a vault and buried deep inside
It wanted so dearly to be free and to breathe 
But this was not the case, it tried to feel
It always seems to choose wrong
Because of this it has decided to lock its self back up
And there it will stay for forever and a day
Safely and securely locked away.

*****A big hug and thank you to Ping for editing this one and offering a few tips and suggestions*****