P.S. Brian, in all fairness to you, for a long time I couldn't understand why you didn't defend my lyric being mocked in a challenge. But, one day, in 2011, I re-read my silly lyric and I realized that perhaps you were thinking it was a good way to teach me to write better. This was the lyric of mine that got parodied in the challenge thread:

Just Keep That Piece of Your Heart
©2006 Lisa Gundling

He said goodbye in that usual way,
But I was caught off guard,
not sure what to say.
His eyes were wet and his voice it cracked,
As he said let’s part, let’s not look back.
And honey, he said, I did love you,
And there’s a piece of my heart that belongs to you.

Well I wiped my eyes, for they were moist,
and I heard myself say, in a small, scared voice:

CHORUS
No darlin’ just keep that piece of your heart,
‘Cause I don’t want it, that one small part.
Yea I’m holdin’ out for the whole darn thing,
A nice full heart…and maybe a ring.

Well we argued a while about that piece,
And I dragged it on home like a burdened beast.
I went to a surgeon to have it removed,
But he just laughed, seemed real amused.
My shrink checked it out while I sat cryin’,
Removal, he said, takes lots of pryin’.

Seems the longer I had it, the more it weighed,
so I placed an ad in the personal page…

I’m single and burdened with a heavy heart,
‘Cause some guy left me with an extra part.
If you’re a single guy with parts to spare,
Then don’t you call me – oh don’t you dare.

REPEAT CHORUS

Well time went by, and I got a reply,
From a nice full heart in a real nice guy.
He was able to remove that extra part,
The one that burdened my heavy heart.
Then he gave me his heart, and he gave me his ring,
Yea I got it all, yea the whole darn thing.

Just couldn’t stop dwellin’ on that one small part—
Was weighin’ me down like a heavy heart…