Heart

What in the world did I do to deserve you
I don't understand why you treat me that way
You knew you were everything I ever wanted
You had your own ways of making me pay

Then you took it just a little too far
Now I see you for what you are
I don't need the heartache anymore

Loving you was an endless fight
I was wrong and you were always right
But look what happened when I called your bluff
When the truth comes out you ain't so tough

You turned me into an emotional prisoner
You hit me with words that cut to the bone
Then you kissed me and made me believe that I needed you
And think I could never survive on my own

Never thought that I would break away
Now I see right through your power play
And I don't feel so helpless anymore

Loving you was an endless fight
I was wrong and you were always right
But look what happened when I called your bluff
When the truth comes out you ain't so tough

You took me too far to forgive it
That was your last mistake
That was your last mistake

Loving you was an endless fight
I was wrong and you were always right
But look what happened when I called your bluff
When the truth comes out you ain't so tough

You take it all but you don't give back
You feel strong when the odds are stacked
There comes a time when enough's enough
When the truth comes out you ain't so tough

You ain't so tough

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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