"Little Bar, Little Heart" lyrics

There's a bar in the basement
Where the jazz band is playing for free
It was our secret place
So I will not say the name, it's still sacred to me

I remember one night over candlelight
I almost set my hair on fire
Reaching for your liquored lips
And I remember that one time
Couldn't keep it all inside
Said "I love you" and for the first time
I finally meant it

Oh, I still miss that little bar
Oh, you still have my little heart

I shoulda known that'd be the case
When you claim a bar as a place
That it wouldn't be kept safe
From heartbreak or from grief
Say I'm twenty-two from Jersey
Tell myself you couldn't hurt me
I was young, so in a hurry
To say it was meant to be

Oh, I still miss that little bar
Oh, you still have my little heart

Oh, you still have my little heart
Went and ripped it all apart
And it may be in the basement
But you can't reach my little bar
Played it cool, I've played the part
You made me a fool, left in the dark
You were always so unsure
But I believed in you from the start

You act like loving me was hard
I would've died right in your arms
I knew I had to walk away
And so you ran so fucking far
Ah, from the bar and from my heart

Oh, I still miss that little bar
Oh, but I want back my little heart

I wanna go inside, I wanna run and hide
I wanna sit in the corner and cry
With a whiskey on ice, I'll always remember
That's what you had the last night of September