Heart

Songwriter: Lisa Dalbello

Producer: Ron Nevison

Someone told me to call
So I did and no one answered
And I don't hear a sound
But I know someone's laughing
I'm trying hard to keep my confidence
You take advantage of my innocence

Where are you, how are you
I wait for an answer
Wait for an answer
It's been so long. I'll hold on
And wait for an answer
Wait for an answer

No one know you
What you go though, but I do
The phone keeps ringing
No one know what you're thinking
But I do, I do, I do

They were laughing at you
And I held out my hand
I was trying to get through
Without losing again

Where are you, how are you
I wait for an answer
Wait for an answer
It's been so long. I'll hold on
And wait for an answer
Wait for an answer

What's that you say I can't hear you
Are those words meant for me
As they appear to be
The tension in my voice awakes you
You know who I am but my name escapes you

They were looking for you
And you started to run
If they asked about you
I wouldn't tell anyone

Where are you, how are you
I wait for an answer -
Wait for an answer
It's been so long. I'll hold on
And wait for an answer
Wait for an answer

The kind of woman I am
I do things that you can't understand
But there are times when you should
Check the line on my face
Don't look at me now
Look at me now
Look at me now

Where are you, how are you
I wait for an answer
Wait for an answer
It's been so long. I'll hold on
And wait for an answer
Wait for an answer

I'll wait, you make me wait
Someone told me to call

Heart, lead by Ann and Nancy Wilson, is considered a — or the — Grand Dame of hard rock and heavy metal.

Not only do they have more hit singles and AOR tracks than most other bands (songs we’d go over in detail but they’re listed on this very page in order of popularity) but in some ways deeper respect than many, both for their own groundbreaking talent and appeal and some unusual recognition thereof, including having been picked to perform Stairway to Heaven for Led Zeppelin themselves at the Kennedy Center Honors in 2012, making Robert Plant and company actually cry. Not Rush, not Aerosmith, nor any of the other bands beloved rock/metal that — along with Ann and Nancy’s band — followed Zeppelin by one generation. Just Heart.

Starting in the mid seventies, Heart forged a unique and powerful sound outstanding in their field, and was unusual in topping the charts well into their own second decade in the late eighties, becoming a staple of MTV’s rotation, albeit sometimes crammed by the industry into music videos that the bandmates despised and comment on to this day.

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