Heart

Released: October 7, 1978

Songwriter: Sue Ennis Nancy Wilson (Heart) Ann Wilson

Producer: Michael Fisher Mike Flicker Heart

Inside out again
I had to spread it a little thin
I work and work and try
And try
And try and try to shine
That's fine but

It's high time
Break and take the freedom
My time
To live like I feel
To let down and let myself be
It's high time for me
High time for me
High time for me

Darling look at you
I can see what you been through
You been bought and sold
And pushed and rolled
And rolled
And rolled gets old

But it's high time
Break and take the freedom
Your time to leave like you feel
So get up, you know what to do
It's high time for you
High time for you
High time for you too

I know you know
All about a fool
Who is where and where is
What is cool to you

I'll go underground
With the ones I've found
Put your ear down
You can feel us shake
Way down way down
We're making a break
Making a break
Our ship is in
You know it is
It is high time
It's high time

Don't we feel fine tonight
We got the fire hot alright
The feeling is clear
You better be aware
It's here
It's all here

And it's high time
Break and take the freedom
Our time
To live as we feel
So come on feel the buzz
It's high time for us
High time for us
High time for us

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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Dog & Butterfly (1978)

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