THE FRIDAY LIST: WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU GOOGLE “MY HEART IS LIKE”

“My Heart is Like a Zoo”
– children’s book by Michael Hall

“My Heart is Like a River”
– song by Rebecca Lavelle

“My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a water’d shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a halcyon sea…”
– from the poem, “A Birthday,” by Christina Rossetti

“My Heart is Like a Singing Bird”
– the Christina Rossetti poem performed as a song by Lorna Kelly and  Niel Chapman in a live concert in Harare, Zimbabwe

“My heart is like wax, melting within me.”
– Psalm 22:14, King James Bible

“My heart is like a wheel.”
– from “Let Me Roll It” by Paul McCartney & Wings

“My heart is like the autumn moon”
– poem by Han-shan (from The View from Cold Mountain)

“… my heart is like a speeded train”
– from “Out of Place” by Oliver James

“My heart is like an open highway”
– from “It’s My Life” by Bon Jovi

“My heart is like a mason’s hands of weathered skin,
each scar makes it harder for me to hurt again”
– from “Pretty Girl from Chile” by the Avett Brothers

“My heart is like burnin’ up, burning up,
my heart is like burnin’ up, burning up,
my heart is like burnin’ up, burning up,
my heart is like burnin’ up”
– from “Burnin’ Up” by Faith Evans

“My heart is like a jigsaw puzzle”
– from “Jigsaw” by Lady Sovereign

“…my heart is like…a little pool/Left by the tide”
– from Edna St. Vincent Millay, Collected Poems

“My Heart is an Idiot”
– book of essays by Davy Rothbart

“My heart is like a bomb. She knows I’m full of shit, but she thinks I’m cute.”
– from “Fuck Yeah American Idiot,” the tumblelog for Green Day’s Broadway musical,  “American  Idiot”

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