Rhythm Cafe MKE
VOL54 - Maximiano | You Have A Heart In Me
Season 2025 Episode 27 | 7m 36sVideo has Closed Captions
A song about forgiveness, written from the belly of a difficult winter.
This song was written during a time of painful separation, born from the artist's aspirational need to forgive lost friends and reconcile with deep wounds. Maximiano shares that writing this song was a vital reminder that "forgiveness bleeds," and it requires tending to.
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Rhythm Cafe MKE is a local public television program presented by MILWAUKEE PBS
Rhythm Cafe MKE
VOL54 - Maximiano | You Have A Heart In Me
Season 2025 Episode 27 | 7m 36sVideo has Closed Captions
This song was written during a time of painful separation, born from the artist's aspirational need to forgive lost friends and reconcile with deep wounds. Maximiano shares that writing this song was a vital reminder that "forgiveness bleeds," and it requires tending to.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(gentle music) (gentle music continues) - Hi, I'm Maximiano and this is "You Have a Heart in Me."
(solemn music) (solemn music continues) (solemn music continues) (gentle music) ♪ I knew you when ♪ ♪ The past was out of reach ♪ ♪ Finger bones ♪ ♪ On endless empire beach ♪ (relaxed music) ♪ If you pretend that you don't know me now ♪ ♪ I'll wait it out ♪ ♪ I'll be 'round ♪ (solemn music) (solemn music continues) (relaxed music) ♪ We had a way ♪ ♪ Of laughing for hours and hours ♪ ♪ Ha ha ♪ ♪ Found hideaway ♪ ♪ In the towers ♪ ♪ In the towers ♪ ♪ In towers ♪ ♪ And the stone was pure gold ♪ ♪ But nothing rushed from heaven but the cold ♪ ♪ And nothing rushed from heaven but the cold ♪ ♪ And nothing rushed from heaven ♪ ♪ But the cold ♪ ♪ Cold of the night on our clothes ♪ (spirited music) ♪ No better time ♪ ♪ Nowhere to go ♪ ♪ But still ♪ ♪ You have a heart ♪ ♪ In me ♪ ♪ Half in the bag ♪ ♪ Half in my head ♪ ♪ All underground ♪ ♪ All things unsaid ♪ ♪ I know now ♪ ♪ Forgiveness bleeds ♪ ♪ And somehow ♪ ♪ It's in me ♪ (spirited music) ♪ Cold of the night on our clothes ♪ (spirited music) ♪ No better time ♪ ♪ Nowhere to go ♪ ♪ But still ♪ ♪ You have a heart ♪ ♪ In me ♪ ♪ And still ♪ ♪ You have a heart ♪ ♪ In me ♪ ♪ And still ♪ ♪ You have a heart in me ♪ (lively music) ♪ Oh ♪ (lively music) ♪ Oh ♪ (lively music) ♪ Oh ♪ (gentle music) (gentle music ends) - It's a song about forgiveness.
It's a song about trying to forgive, and in that trying, figuring out that it's less of something you do and more it's something you have to embody.
I wrote the song aspirationally, well before I'd forgiven the people that it's about, but I have since then forgiven, but it's a song that had to be written.
I was in the belly of a really difficult winter and I had lost touch with friends that I held really dear that I was in a band with and it was another reminder that I still loved them and that my forgiveness was this bleeding animal that if I didn't tend to it, would die.
There's a line in there that, "I know now forgiveness bleeds, and somehow it's in me."
Since that song came out, I've reconnected with nearly everyone that the song is about, and I feel like there is some closure and it only came when I stopped looking for it, which is annoying, but I have a very deep, tender spot in my heart for that song.
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