[First released as B-Side to `A Horse in the Country']
    I met her in a church on a Sunday evening
  not late on Saturday night
  She sang Ave Maria
  a little flat and out of time
  but that's what drew me to her
  so that's alright
  As she placed a nickel in the basket
  that I held before her
  I asked her to be my wife
    And there's one cardboard heart
  for every time you said "I love you"
  A painted star for every secret that we shared
  A dried lima bean and small plastic birds
  because you cared
    I hear their talk and I watch them swap
  their old black and whites
  Bitter and beaten
  they talk of life's cheatin'
  like old boxers comparing scars
    All I remember is a smile at the top of every working morning
  and a shoulder always willing and able
  and all those nights that we'd spend just sitting
  and talking around our kitchen table
    And there's one cardboard heart
  for every time you said "I love you"
  A painted star for every secret that we shared
  A dried lima bean and small plastic birds
  because you cared
    Five rooms made stronger by the breaking and the healing
  of the two hearts they protected within
  Now one heart left aching
  just piecing and painting
  these walls with the memories of all that is real
    And there's one cardboard heart
  for every time you said "I love you"
  A painted star for every secret that we shared
  A dried lima bean and small plastic birds
  because you cared
    And there's one cardboard heart
  for every time you said "I love you"
  A painted star for every secret that we shared
  A dried lima bean and small plastic birds
  because you cared