Only In Your Heart
Written by Gerry Beckley, ©1972
Found on Homecoming, History, The Very Best Of America, Highway, The Definitive America, The Complete Greatest Hits, Homecoming-DVD-Audio, The Grand Cayman Concert, and Here & Now.

Mary, have you seen better days?
And will you find different ways?
And does he really mean that much to your heart?
Carry, all of the weight you can, find another man
And lead him directly there to the source
You've got to chart his course

'Cause it is only in your heart
This thing that makes you want to
Start it all again
(La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la)

Wake up from an elusive dream
You've got to change the scene
It's getting so hard to see to the end
Break down, all of the walls you can
You need a helping hand
I'm sure there's someone there just for you
He's trying to make it, too

'Cause it is only in your heart
This thing that makes you want to
Start it all again
(La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la)

Only in your heart
This thing that makes you want to
Start it all again
(La, la, la, la)

You can't disregard your friends
But life gets so hard when you reach the end

Mary, have you seen better days?
(Mary, have you seen better days?)
Mary, have you seen better days?
(Mary, have you seen better days?)
Mary, have you seen better days?
(Mary, have you seen better days?)
Mary, have you seen better days?
(Mary, have you seen better days?)

Highway Highlight (from the box set booklet)
One tune that did pass muster was "Only In Your Heart." This Beckley song rides on a bouncy piano line and is addressed to a certain "Mary." "'Only In Your Heart' was a British pop kind of thing, kind of Graham Nash-y," says Gerry. "There was a guy who hung around the house named Hank, and his girlfriend was named Mary. But I really took poetic license--it had nothing to do with her." The single of the song went to #62 in May of '73.


Last Revised: 30 August 2010