Old trucks don't run if they got no gas in it

Can't play a popped flat top string

What's a pasture with no green grass in it?

A songbird with no song to sing?

Cup won't buzz without a little sour mash in it

Can't pray a prayer without "amen"

Work don't work without ya back in it

Flat tires, they don't spin.

But broken hearts still beat

And that's what you showed me

I thought if you'd ever let me go

That'd be the end of the end of my rope

It ain't good as new

And boy, thanks to you

It may never be the way it used to be

But broken hearts still beat.

My smile's got a little bit less ear to ear in it

Bed's got a little more room

Fridge has got a little more beer in it

Now that there's no you

And even though it's black and blue.

Broken hearts still beat

And that's what you showed me

I thought if you'd ever let me go

That'd be the end of the end of my rope

It ain't good as new

And boy, thanks to you

It may never be the way it used to be

But broken hearts still beat.

Still tickin', still kickin', still breathin'

Still pumpin', still runnin', still dreamin'

Thought it might stop when ya tore off leavin'

Guess it took that to see.

Broken hearts still beat

And that's what you showed me

I thought if you'd ever let me go

That'd be the end of the end of my rope

It ain't good as new

And boy, thanks to you

It may never be the way it used to be

But broken hearts still beat

Broken hearts still beat.