Heart

Released: February 14, 1980

Songwriter: Sue Ennis Nancy Wilson (Heart) Ann Wilson

The dust is gathering where I stand
Now I know there's a crack in this plan
After a while there just ain't no more
Magic, man

I got a need
I got to know
Give me the truth who is running my show
Tell them I'm sorry but I just had to go

My patience ran out
I gotta run
Out of a habit that used to be fun

I just wanna break
Shake it, shake it, shake it off
Take off, break it off
Break, break

Break me outta here
You know what it's about
Let me out, get me out
Break

I go no more respect for the big man
Pulling me down to what he understands
He can't get his mind around no bigger plans
No one is going to tie me to this machine
Giving me formula force fed dreams
Getting more hold on me than it seems

My patience ran out
I gotta run
Out of a habit
That used to be fun

I just gotta break
Shake it, shake it, shake it off
Take off, break it off
Break, break

Break me out of here
You know what it's about
Let me out, get me out
Break

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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