Heart

Released: November 16, 1993

Songwriter: Sue Ennis Nancy Wilson (Heart) Ann Wilson

Producer: John Purdell Duane Baron

Stand at the window
Pull back the lace
I feel the night wind on my face
All that I long for - all that I crave
Am I master, Am I slave?
The night's so still
I feel the lovers out in the hills
The breathing of young girls lying in bed
Visions of love in their heads

Desire walks on
Desire walks on

A beautiful boy gazed in a pool
His eyes looking back like jewels
The call of the mirror - too strong to resist
The call of the water - the call of a kiss

Desire walks on
Desire walks on

It wants to be held - possessed
It wants consummation
It moves on obsessed
Blodstream through pipes
Singing in the wires
Heat - motion - control
Desire walks on

Stand at the window
The world is so still
Calling you back by force of will
Where did you go?
I don't know why
Too much longing inside
You wrapped me in nighttime sexual disguise
I was the love in your eyes
You took me over
My innocence cracked
You own my passion
I want you back

Desire walks on
Desire walks on

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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