What is “Wild Heart” about?
"Wild Heart" is about living without brakes, refusing to slow down and treating every scar as proof of having been there. The narrator chases dreams on midnight drives down empty roads, high and low but never losing his soul, and the chorus insists the heart can't be tamed or caged. The bridge makes the theme plain: this heart "was made for freedom." Track twelve on Paraíso, it is the album's second-longest song, behind only the closing title track.
Wild Heart lyrics
(Wild heart...)
(Yeah)
I was never one to play it safe
Always chasing what I couldn't taste
Running down the highway with no brakes
Living for the thrill, whatever it takes
They told me slow down, I said "no way"
Life's too short to live it in the grey
I got a fire that won't burn out
A wild heart that screams so loud
I'm not afraid to fall
I'm not afraid to lose it all
Cause every scar I wear
Just proves that I was there
Wild heart, can't be tamed
Running through the fire and the rain
Wild heart, feel no shame
I was born to burn, born to blaze
Wild heart, breaking chains
Nothing's gonna keep me in a cage
I got a wild heart
And it beats my name
Midnight drives on empty roads
Chasing dreams that no one knows
I've been high and I've been low
But I never lost my soul
Every heartbreak made me stronger
Every doubt just made me hunger
For the life I know I deserve
A wild heart that will never learn
I'm not afraid to fall
I'm not afraid to lose it all
Cause every scar I wear
Just proves that I was there
Wild heart, can't be tamed
Running through the fire and the rain
Wild heart, feel no shame
I was born to burn, born to blaze
Wild heart, breaking chains
Nothing's gonna keep me in a cage
I got a wild heart
And it beats my name
They can try to hold me down
But I'll always find my way
This heart was made for freedom
And freedom's here to stay
Wild heart, can't be tamed
Running through the fire and the rain
Wild heart, breaking chains
Nothing's gonna keep me in a cage
I got a wild heart
And it beats my name
(Wild heart...)
(Can't stop this feeling)