Heart

Released: March 26, 1990

Songwriter: Diane Warren

Producer: Richie Zito

Every night without you is more than I can bear
Moonlight can be torture
When your love isn't there
I see you in the shadows
I can hear you in the wind
Think of you and I can feel my world closing in
I can't sleep I keep wishing I could touch you
I'd be fine if I could make it through
Through these

Cruel nights
Cruel nights
Missing you nights
What do I do nights
Cruel nights without your love

Counting every minute
Every minute feels like days
Feels like time is standing still since you've been away
Always thought you'd stay forever
Always thought that you'd be here
Now it's been a lifetime since I held you near
Days crawl by, I keep wishing they'd be over
But I know they're only leading me to
To these

Cruel nights
Cruel nights
Missing you nights
What do I do nights

Cruel nights without your love
(Cruel nights) since we've been apart
(Cruel nights) it's been tearing up my heart
(What do I do nights) since you've been
Away baby
Cruel nights

Oh I just can't get through another night
Without you beside me
I need you beside me

I can't sleep
I keep wishing I could touch you
I'd be fine if I could make it through
Through these cruel nights...

Cruel nights
Cruel nights

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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