Well the beat that my heart skipped sounded like this:

Bom bom bom bad-i-ba bad-i-bad-i-ba bom ba-o-a-o

Bom bom bom bad-i-ba bad-i-bad-i-ba bom ba-bom-bom-bom

Every now and then I cower and I need to find empowerment

Empowerment is paramount to how I can begin to mount
A plan that I can implement
To make a dent on ignorance

Instead of drunk belligerence
And the dissidence of miscreants


Especially in this instance
Never ending persistence
To use the words in each sentence

As if they were blunt instruments
To beat a hole in their defence
Of this beauty and her innocence

Which serves to build resistance
In spite of all my good intents.


The beat that my heart skipped
This is the beat that my heart skipped
This is the beat that my heart skipped


This is the beat that my heart skipped when we first met
Now that I've heard it, it leaves me with a kind of regret

No disrespect
But we just left a lot of people upset
What we had wasn't really what we'd come to expect


This is the beat that my heart skipped when we first met
Now that I've heard it, it leaves me with a kind of regret

No disrespect
But we just left a lot of people upset
What we had wasn't really what we'd come to expect


Well "good god damn" and other such phrases
I haven't heard a beat like this in ages

To miss such a beat would have been outrageous
When your heart skips a beat it's ruthless and aimless


Bom bom bom bad-i-ba bad-i-bad-i-ba bom ba-o-a-o
Bom bom bom bad-i-ba bad-i-bad-i-ba bom ba-bom-bom-bom


She caught my attention in her fishnets
And then she reeled me in expecting nothing more than kissed necks and quick sex
But that weren't the case with this platinum princess

She'd attracted my interest
So I wanted to impress
Upon her all the positive things

That come from having more than just a one night fling
But that's something easier in theory than in practice
Since pick up lines are tactics

To get prey to the mattress

And this actress

Is practiced
In shunning such theatrics
When put upon daily by tactless geriatrics

So my genuine advances are met with po-faced scepticism
Throwing compliments but she just straight elects to miss them
Her lips were put on this earth for dispersing wisdom

God forbid I suggest she lets me kiss them

But I really want to know what she thinks of me

Because I'm loving every idiosyncrasy

But I ain't one to jump through hoops to make the first impression

Been there, done that, learnt the worst of lessons
We want to be loved for who we appear to be instead of who we are
Our real selves take a back seat behind the pomp and the faade

That's as true of the rude boys, downing pints and acting hard
As of the kids shunning convention with clinical disregard


This is the beat that my heart skipped

And it went...

Bom bom bom bad-i-ba bad-i-bad-i-ba bom ba-o-a-o

Bom bom bom bad-i-ba bad-i-bad-i-ba bom ba-bom-bom-bom

([Background:] Bom bom bom bad-i-ba bad-i-bad-i-ba bom ba-o-a-o)
This is the beat that my heart skipped when we first met
Now that I've heard it, it leaves me with a kind of regret

No disrespect
But we just left a lot of people upset
What we had wasn't really what we'd come to expect

([Background:] Bom bom bom bad-i-ba bad-i-bad-i-ba bom ba-bom-bom-bom)

Beat that my heart skipped when we first met
Now that I've heard it, it leaves me with a kind of regret
No disrespect
But we just left a lot of people upset


This is the beat that my heart skipped when we first met
Now that I've heard it, it leaves me with a kind of regret
No disrespect
But we just left a lot of people upset
What we had wasn't really what we'd come to expect


Beat that my heart skipped when we first met
Now that I've heard it, it leaves me with a kind of regret
No disrespect
But we just left a lot of people upset
What we had wasn't really what we'd come to expect

Every now and then I cower and I need to find empowerment

Empowerment is paramount to how I can begin to mount
A plan that I can implement
To make a dent on ignorance
Instead of drunk belligerence
And the dissidence of miscreants

Especially in this instance

Never ending persistence
To use the words in each sentence
As if they were blunt instruments
To beat a hole in their defence
Of this beauty and her innocence
Which serves to build resistance
In spite of all my good intents.


The beat that my heart skipped

This is the beat that my heart skipped