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The Fray – Heartbeat lyrics
We're on an open bed truck on the highway
Rain is coming down and we're on the run.
Think I can feel the breath in your body.
We gotta keep on running til' we see the sun.

Oh you gotta fire and it's burnin' in the rain.
Thought that it went out, but it's burnin' just the same.
And you don't look back, not for anything.
'Cause love someone, love them all the same.
If you love someone, love them all the same.

Oh I feel your heartbeat.
And oh, you're comin' around, comin' around, comin' around
If you can love somebody, love them all the same.
You gotta love somebody, love them all the same.
I'm Singing, Oh, I'm Feeling Your Heartbeat.

I'm tryin' to put it all back together.
I've got a story and I'm tryin' to tell it right.
I've got the kerosene and the desire.
I'm trying to start a flame in the heart of the night

Oh you gotta fire and it's burnin' in the rain.
Thought that it went out, but it's burnin' just the same.
And you don't look back, not for anything.
'Cause you love someone, you love them all the same.
If you love someone, you love them all the same.

Oh I feel your heartbeat.
And oh, you're comin' around, comin' around, comin' around
If you can love somebody, love them all the same.
You gotta love somebody, love them all the same.
I'm singing, Oh, I feel your heartbeat.

I know the memories rushing into mind.
I want to kiss your scars tonight.
I'm laying here,
'Cause you've gotta try, you've gotta let me in, let me in

Oh I feel your heartbeat.
And oh, you're comin' around, comin' around, comin' around
You love somebody, you gotta, you gotta love somebody
You gotta, I'm singing, oh, I feel your heartbeat,
All your heartbeat, yeah, I said,
All your heartbeat, yeah,
All your heartbeat
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Songwriters: Isaac Slade, Joseph King
Heartbeat lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc., Wixen Music Publishing
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    Unregistered 2011-12-08 00:50:49
    I feel that heartbeat is about a couple who have lost eachother because of something that has happened in their relationship but no matter what has happened they can't stop loving eachother as much as they've always have and the girl is finally coming around to forgive him for what has happened in their past and their love is strong enough to overcome their hardships. The only thing harder than forgiving and being together is not being together. Been there done that.
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    Unregistered 2012-07-22 05:31:11
    If you love someone you have to accept all of them, and love is not a compromise but a blessing. The writer is saying he has to listen to his heart, and at first he thought this girl wasnt the one for him but maybe he was wrong. It's about loving people for everything, the little things they do, the things they say, their quirks, anything and everything about them.
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    Unregistered 2012-07-03 18:41:12
    I think that's its a love song. But at the part where it say "oh you gotta fire and it's burnin' in the rain. Thought that it went out, but it's burnin' just the same" it means don't stop and don't give up on what your believe in because you will always have that and believe in it. I don't think this song is just a love song, its a love song with a meaning and purpose.
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    Unregistered 2012-05-07 00:26:30
    He's trying to tell this girl: "i know you're scarred, i know you've been hurt before. But please try to put your faith in me, let me in and i can help heal your wounds. I love you for who you are on the inside and nothing could ever change that. " I know this feeling well, I have to go through this every single day; both me and my boyfriend have a relationship built on trust, love, and no matter what trying our hardest to help each other heal our scars from the past. Whenever I hear this song, it makes me think of him, and what we have both been through together. That is why this song speaks to me so much, it is simply beautiful.
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    Unregistered 2012-04-13 08:02:43
    It's an adventurous, wild yet all the more worthy up-and-downs type of love where he's unlocketing her heart and enabling her to realise that whomever had hurt her won't be anything like him so its fine to open up to love again. ~ better to love (again) and lost than never loved (again) at all. Somethin' lik tat. Well, love da song to that point where your earphones give up (either my earphones couldn't hande such an awesome masterpiece or maybe putting the volume on full blast isn't ideal.)
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    Unregistered 2012-03-20 23:02:57
    Whenever I hear this soong it puts a smile on my face. I can't help but sing along and when I heard on the radio the true meaning and real reason for writing this song I began to look at it in a new light and listened and studied each word and couldn't wait for the next time it played and I began to believe it. You need to love someone to love them all the same and feel their hearbeat :)
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    Unregistered 2012-02-27 17:38:08
    This could be also interpreted when you meet someone that was just meant to be a one time thing and you know you can't fall for that person but even when you are "running away" from it the burning sensation in your heart starts and you can feel your heartbeat race. You know that there is no way you cannot avoid to feel this way. Love has arrived in your life and you can't help love this person all the way.
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    Unregistered 2012-02-17 20:19:44
    Right now my wife and I are having a lot of trouble. I think she might be cheating. So many thoughts run into my mind -- am I not good enough? What did I do? But, looking into why girls cheat (if she is) I see it has to do more emotional needs not being met.
    This song is how I feel. I got kerosene and I am trying to light the fire, in the darkest, coldest of nights. That's what this song means to me.
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    Unregistered 2012-02-01 21:45:35
    The meaning of this song is clear. He is in love with this person but guess what? That person has a burning flame that is from a past lover or a current lover for that matter. He says that if the person he loves technically loves someone else, he can get that person to love him too. Why? Because "if you can love somebody, (you can) love them--like other people including him--all the same. " he wants to kiss the scars of that persons past. He knows that person has memories of their past/current loved one. So sad.
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    Unregistered 2012-01-27 13:58:50
    The only thing I can say to "heartbeat": the fray is pure genius for writing this song. I like the chorus, you know the "oh,i feel your heartbeat" part, because it reminds me of when I'm with my boyfriend; we are always hugging and we never let go, so I guess you can say that I literally do feel his heartbeat. "if you can love somebody,love them all the same. "i am just in love with this song! ;)
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    Unregistered 2012-01-17 14:12:10
    This song reminds me of when my mom fell ill and had a severe heart attach, just before my wedding. I kept hearing the song on the radio and the chorus stood out for me "i can feel your heartbeat". I stay in a different town and it was very difficult when I got the news. She is much better now and was present at our wedding! This song will always remind me of her and how much she fought!
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    Unregistered 2012-01-04 01:49:59
    When you love someone you gotta love them for the good and the bad. Accept them for their past so you can move on and take them into the future. True love is unconditional. It burns with an intensity unknown until you have felt true love. I love my girlfriend with all my heart she has a bad past but that doesn't matter. What matters is us in the here and now. Its gonna hurt at times but you know when you love someone all the same it won't matter and that you will make it through. I'm learning to play this for her for valentines day. Unfortunately with my navy training I wont be there to spend it with her. If you love someone and they love you just the same do whatever it takes to stay by them, and never let the distance get between you.
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    Unregistered 2012-06-16 20:40:58
    This is a song inspired by the band's visit to south africa, and isaac got told a story from a woman who 'had escaped a horrible situation in the middle of the night and had came back to life' which inspired them with the verses and chorus; especially with the genocides in rwanda. He said the story of the woman was so moving, he didn't know if he could feel his pulse or hers when she held his hand.
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    Unregistered 2012-03-15 02:55:59
    Listenin to heart beat by the fray means a lot to meh what it actually means to me is tht wehn I'm not close or around my boyfriend I can feel his heart beat his breath in his body but wehn I also listen to this song t also reminds me of my lil vrother that died a few yers back I can really fell and here his heratbeat and the breath in his boy he's still living. But I love this song and yes if your thinking does this song ever makes me cry suprisingly yes it does but I really love this song its got a meaning to it.
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    Unregistered 2012-02-11 21:13:54
    The fire of god falls like rain! Consuming the soul and expelling the pain. The enemy keeps trying to snuff it out, but the love of god creates the flame. Everyone has a testimony, everyone has a past, but the scars of jesus love covers all! Everyone is loved the same and once you have experienced that love all you want to do is be a firestarter spreading god's love and compasson for us all. John 10: 10.
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    Unregistered 2012-01-27 18:27:57
    I love this song it makes me think about my past life and everybody that I let go and everybody who I want in my life that is just isn't met to be. I want my self to know that their in my life for a reason some times for the good and bad and sometimes things happen for a reason. Or sometimes for a purpose. And that's good. And I went so far in my life to turn back and take regret on everything. That has happened and that hasnt :) I thnk god for just that.
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    Unregistered 2012-01-24 16:40:33
    The lyrics for this song are far too ambiguous for a clear message. If your message is distorted then what's the point? Some would argue that it's just poetic justice. Or perhaps it's just bad lyrical writing. It's too bad, because if the message was clear then this song would translate into a real life changing anthem instead of a catchy tune that has no depth. I would understand if this was set in metaphor, but it's not. Come on boys. You've been given an awesome platform. Don't waste your opportunity to make a difference.
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    Unregistered 2012-01-06 15:55:11
    If you're gonna love someone or others you love everyone the same without holding back. Some people might say "oh, no i don't love" but everyone does. Even though you may not feel it, it's still there. And if you feel like you're losing your love for someone, if you look deep enough you'll find that it's still there but you allowed something to cover it up though. Some people have that ability to see love and accept it, and some people don't. Some people have a strong passion for love and don't know and some people can just see it, like its a "fire burnin in the rain" you may think that it "went out, but it's burnin just the same". - chelsie:)
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    Unregistered 2012-01-03 04:33:27
    This is my first time to listen to the song but it seems to be about a guy telling a girl that he knows she has been hurt and messed around and that she's broken from lost love but that he will love her, he won't leave her and he wants to be there for her and heal her scars. He's hopeful that she will let him into her heart.
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    Unregistered 2012-01-01 22:11:23
    Its about a relationship in jeopardy. The couple is struggling to stay together but the love is strong and the fire is still burning just as strong. The person is still in love and they are coming around. When you love some one, you love them the same way you always have, it doesn't change. Mind you this does not consider cheating or lying, this is a relationship struggling in other situations. Like a partner being misunderstood or neglected. Powerful song.
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    Unregistered 2011-12-23 06:20:03
    This song is so powerful and meaningful and truthful and passionate. But this song is merely what we as humans can define love as. Just imagine, though, that if this is how amazing a human's love can be, how much greater is the love of jesus christ who gave us existence and died that we might live? Really think on it, and it'll make you cry. How do you write about a love like god's love?
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    Unregistered 2011-12-23 06:16:58
    I don't know what the frickin crap people of this day and age think love is, but people mistreat love all the time. But this song has a every single side of what love truly is hidden in the lyrics. This song has memories, comfort, perseverance, courage, safety, passion, and acceptance. Altogether that's love, and I just wish more people knew that cause it's hard to know what love is these days. This is such a pathetic, fallen world.
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    Unregistered 2011-12-21 01:12:09
    I think it means a lot, everyone has their own thoughts about what it means, and they are all amazing! I think it's saying don't look back or dwell on the past, love them all the same no matter what. We aren't perfect and never will be. Love is something that is patient and will wait and be understanding in any situation, also about letting some one it, tell the one you love how you feel, or about your past, or maybe you had a bad past or relationship, basically let them in and talk to them. Communication is always he best way to get to know some one. What a great song makes me think about a lot!
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    Unregistered 2011-12-15 04:34:07
    Sometimes it's good to remind yourself why you say you're in love. You put the pieces back together, you retell the whole story to yourself, and by the time you've remembered the whole story again, the fire's burning big and bright and it's indescribable, the joy you feel to just love someone so much. It's like renewed passion after a little break, and you don't look back now. You just move forward and continue to love him, and you continue to let his heartbeat remind you why you love him so deeply.
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    Unregistered 2011-12-14 02:01:41
    Love is love, regardless of who it may be. Always keep that feeling in your heart even if it may seem impossible at times. And just because you get your heart broken once or twice, it doesn't mean you shouldnt love as strongly or freely, love everyone just the same. Also, I think this is his way of telling someone not to be afraid to love him the way they may have loved someone previously because he knows they were hurt and he wants to make it better and make sure that person is loved in return.
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    Unregistered 2011-12-13 04:34:39
    It's like that moment when everything's all wrong and you can't believe he did that and you wonder if there's someone else out there. But then it hits you so suddenly the way it did when you first saw him - that you love him. That when it all comes down to it, you just love him so much. You thought your love was over for a moment, but it's still burning.
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    Unregistered 2011-12-13 04:31:29
    When you love someone, you just gotta love him to the fullest in all circumstances. When you love someone, there's always that fire inside, and you can feel the memories in every heartbeat. And there's tough times, but you keep running till you see the sun - together. If you focus on just loving him through it all and remind yourself of how much he means to you, you're gonna make it no matter what. You gonna love someone, love em all the same. It's the only way to love, really.
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    Unregistered 2011-12-07 01:34:31
    Heartbeat is a song that analyzes a man's feelings for a woman. He is trying to convince her that if she loves him, she loves him with all her heart, that there is no such thing as loving one person differently from another, love is love. He wants her to know he never stopped loving her, and he still cares about her the same way he did a long time ago, despite what might have happened in their long separation. He feels she is slowly opening up to him, and he knows they belong together.
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    Unregistered 2011-11-20 16:08:57
    I think this song is about how a guy loves a girl, but she doesen't want to let him in. He reallt feels for her, but she's just not ready, and he's waiting, waiting, waiting. But the girl is starting to open up, and the couple are gaining a better relationship. To me, this song is one I share with one of my best friends, and we went throught the same thing. I was wary of letting someone into my life, and then when I opened up, we now have a great relationship. Love the fray, amazing band, and they always know how to work their way into our hearts. :)
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