Heart

Released: November 16, 1993

Songwriter: Kit Hain Nancy Wilson (Heart) Ann Wilson

Producer: John Purdell Duane Baron

Forgive me I can't stay here anymore
I'm leaving with the tide
This evening another breeze blew round my door
Stirred me up inside
I'm breaking out of this tired old spell
I played it out long and so well
Oh whoa

And the phoenix flies straight and high
Back to Avalon
Now I'm on my way back where I belong
Gonna go there with the sun
Back to Avalon

Where I'm going all my demons disappear
I'm leaving them behind
I'm traveling way up on the atmosphere
Cause I made up my mind
Gonna find my love, gonna find my life
Gonne look them so deep in the eye
Oh whoa

And the phoenix flies straight and high
Back to Avalon
Now I'm on my way back where I belong
Gonna go there with the sun
Back to Avalon
Nobody knows what's inside my head
Or down this road
Whoa whoa I know I'm going home
And the phoenix flies straight and high
Back to Avalon
Now I'm on my way back where I belong
Gonna go there with the sun
And the phoenix flies straight and high
Back to Avalon
Now I'm on my way back where I belong
Gonna go there with the sun
Back to Avalon

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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Desire Walks On

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