Heart

Released: November 16, 1993

Songwriter: Nancy Wilson (Heart) Ann Wilson Lisa Dalbello

Producer: John Purdell Duane Baron

Daddy's little soldier boy
Mama's little pride and joy
Both hands on her apron strings
"Don't you touch that dirty thing"

A warning signal from above
Inspection with a clean white glove
They say that opposites attract
Like right and wrong, black on black

Like pleasure and a little pain
The sacred and profane
Ice and fire counteract
Like black on black

The oldest story known to man
The willing sacrificial lamb
Behind the light a shadow falls
The code of silence shakes the walls

A whisper to a silent scream
The power is so frightening
They say that opposites attract
Like right and wrong, black on black

Like pleasure and a little pain
The sacred and profane
Ice and fire counteract just
Like black on black

A warning signal from above
Inspection with a clean white glove
They say that opposites attract
Like right and wrong, black on black

Some things seem so sacred
Like a loaded question
The power of suggestion
Like the face of danger
The kindness of a stranger
Like a Judas Kiss
Like pleasure and a little pain
Immaculate seduction
Absolute corruption
Ice and fire counteract
No turning back
Like black on black
Black on black
Black on black

Like pleasure and a little pain
The sacred and profane
Ice and fire counteract
Like black on black

Like pleasure and a little pain
The sacred and profane
Ice and fire counteract
Just like black on black
Black
A little pain
Just like black on black
Black
Black on black
Black on black
Black on black

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.

more tracks from the album

Desire Walks On

From the albums

Desire Walks On (1993)
The Essential Heart (2002)

Heart popular songs

Black On Black IIHeart

Heart

Desire Walks On