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Backstory:

Like many of the songs I wrote with Will Hopkins, the song came from Will playing some melody on his guitar and the two of us singing lyrics that eventually became a song with Ellen's input.

Lyrics:

                                                  
THE HEART DON’T LISTEN
(Claire Ulanoff/Will Hopkins/Ellen Britton)

V1
They all said boy you ain’t got a clue
She’s the daughter of a doctor, you’re a trucker’s son
Girls like her don’t go for guys like you
Go ahead and ask her out, we can laugh about it when you’re done
If he’da used his head he’da known they were right
But when you’re seventeen, thinking ain’t the first thing on your mind…and

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The heart don’t listen, there’s no telling it no
The heart don’t listen, it’s got a mind of its own
It’s in one ear and out the other
It only hears what it wants to
You can talk ‘til you’re blue in the face, you won’t get through
The heart don’t listen

V2
She said yes to a movie and a Tastee Freeze
Next thing you know he was showing up every night
Before too long she was wearing his high school ring
Her daddy started thinking she was messing up her life
He said “you’re gonna meet someone when you go off to school
You gotta break this thing off now, he’s not good enough for you”…but

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Bridge
Now eighteen years and three kids later they’re still going strong
And every time they kiss goodnight they thank their lucky stars…that

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