Discover the story of the song > I Kept Her Heart – The Pine Box Boys

The protagonist marries Jessica when she is young, but she tells him that she never loved him. This hurts his heart, so he plans to get revenge on her. He convinces her to go to the mountain with him, but instead he kills her. He keeps her heart as a reminder of what she did to him, and he leaves her skull in the woods. He even uses the flour from the mill that ground up her bones to make his bread.