I'm Ready to Move On / Wild Heart Reprise

**I'm Ready to Move On / Wild Heart Reprise** is the tenth track on Strange Desire. It features a collaboration with Japanese artist Yoko Ono, and reprises Wild Heart. It was released on July 11, 2014.

## Lyrics

[Chorus 1: Yoko Ono]

(Cracks on its surface made it clear that there’s warm water bubbling up from within)

(Cracks on its surface made it clear that there’s warm water bubbling up from within)

(Cracks on its surface made it clear that there’s warm water bubbling up from within)

(Cracks on its surface made it clear that there’s warm water bubbling up from within)

Snow is falling all the time

Snow is smiling all the time

I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready to move on

[Verse 1]

(Cracks on its surface made it clear that there was a war of honor bubbling up from within)

They closed the parkway late last night

And as I sat with the echoes of the lies that I told

I felt young, never changed by crooked hearts

So put your shotgun back in the glove

Come on and wait another year for the dream far away

To come home, to be brave

[Chorus 1: Yoko Ono]

Snow is falling all the time

Snow is smiling all the time

I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready to move on

[Verse 2]

They boarded up the windows and the doors to my house

No one will ever read the letters of the lies that I told

From the years I was changed by crooked hearts

Why did they have to go and do us like that?

Why did they have to go and run from the dream far away?

Were we there? Was that brave?

[Chorus 2]

To think everything must die

For anyone to matter

Got to find any way to your wild heart

I will find any way to your wild heart

[Outro]

I will find any way

Now everything has changed and I can't tell what matters

I will find any way to your wild heart

## Commentary

* (In response to how he got Yoko Ono on the record:) "I asked her! It's weird, there's no great story... She's so cute, she's very small. She's exactly what-- she's not one of these people that you meet and then it's like 'oh, this person is so not like they are in the public eye,' like she was full Yoko. She was totally Yoko. Bizarre and wonderful and everything. Y'know she came in and I had this idea for the song I wanted her to be on and she was like 'just let me do it, let me do it, let me get the ideas out.' She goes in there and the first thing she does is scream as loud as she can into the mic and blows all the compressors, the engineers are like freaking out, and then she starts talking and she starts making noises and she's singing. It was very-- I love these people, Yoko is an example of someone who is constantly challenging ideas of what is and isn't art, and making you think a lot in that capacity. So that's kind of what she did on this album, she did all this stuff, like, 20 minutes of it and I took it home. Everyone had the flu that day in the studio so I went home and then I went through the file and started cutting out pieces and basically put the song together... It was very surreal. I love Yoko as an artist more as a public figure. I think she's so fascinating and does really bizarre and fascinating work. It was just very surreal." -Jack Antonoff, in an interview with RadioBDC

## Notes

* On tour, Yoko Ono's part is usually sung by Mikey Freedom Hart.

## References

1. ↑ 2014 interview with RadioBDC, https://youtu.be/VYa1pBqRV\_8?t=942