Heart

Released: February 14, 1980

Songwriter: Nancy Wilson (Heart)

You are the only ones
You save me from myself
My company shows on me
I've been raised on you

And when it just ain't fair
Nothing's left to do
But sit down here
And have a beer
Whatever the world wants to choose

Don't let it fade
Don't trade love away
Just keep a sweet dream true
Let's go tell the world
To quit turning cold
Just let me be raised on you

We don't have to change just now
We can laugh about the load
I can see us later
Lighted eyes
Likely be laughing
Down the road

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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