Released: May 10, 2011

Songwriter: Christina Perri

Producer: David Hodges Joe Chiccarelli

[Chorus]
How the hell does a broken heart
Get back together when it’s torn apart
Teach itself to start
Beating again ba-ba-ba-ba

[Verse 1]
This little blue bird
Came looking for you
I said that I hadn’t seen you
In quite some time
This little blue bird
She came looking again
I said we weren’t even friends
She could have you

[Pre-Chorus]
Don’t you think it was hard?
I didn’t even say that you died
But it wouldn’t have been such a lie
Cause then I started to cry

[Verse 2]
This little blue bird
Sure won’t give it a rest
She swears that you may be better than all the rest
I said "no you’ve got it all wrong
If he was something special I wouldn’t have this song"

[Pre-Chorus]
Don’t you think it was hard
I didn’t even say that you died
But it wouldn’t have been such a lie
Cause then I started to cry

[Chorus]
How the hell does a broken heart
Get back together when it’s torn apart
Teach itself to start
Beating again ba-ba-ba-ba

[Bridge]
What if when she comes over I am in your arms
Taking all I want from you again
Ba ba ba ba, ba ba ba ba ba

[Chorus]
How the hell does a broken heart
Get back together when it’s torn apart
Teach itself to start
Beating again ba-ba-ba-ba

How the hell does a broken heart
Get back together when it’s torn apart
Teach itself to start
Beating again ba-ba-ba-ba
Beating again ba-ba-ba-ba

[Outro]
This little blue bird
Don’t come around here anymore
So I went looking for her
And I found you

Christina Perri

Christina Perri is an American singer and songwriter from Pennsylvania. Her debut single “Jar of Hearts” was featured on the Fox television show So You Think You Can Dance in 2010. The single went on to sell over 3 million copies in the United States and was a hit around the world, skyrocketing Perri’s career. In the UK, it reached number three on the charts and spent over three months in the UK Top 40. A few months later, Perri released her first extended play, The Ocean Way Sessions.

After “Jar of Hearts” began to gather a large amount of attention, Perri signed a record deal with Atlantic Records. Her debut album, Lovestrong, was released on May 10, 2011. In 2012, she wrote and recorded “A Thousand Years” for the film The Twilight Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (2011) and it appears on the accompanying soundtrack. The song went on to sell over 4 million copies in the United States, being certified 4× platinum. Her second EP, A Very Merry Perri Christmas, was released in October 2012. Her second studio album, Head or Heart, was released on April 1, 2014.