Heart

Released: October 7, 1978

Songwriter: Sue Ennis Nancy Wilson (Heart) Ann Wilson

Producer: Michael Fisher Mike Flicker Heart

Look at me, the answer is so clear
Lying close by the fire place
I wish that you could see yourself this way
My love, with the firelight upon your face

Ain't it strange how love put things together?
One like you, someone like me
But no one ever moved me like the way you do
And held against you, love I am weak, oh yeah

Before us now, the dream of love is playin'
A butterfly risin' from the flame
You and me don't need no chain
Since this feeling came to us
A touch of love, a lighter touch

This touch of love, this lighter touch
Than hands of love through time
Reaching up to have and to hold you
But you know I'll always stay if i
Am free to go. you know I'll take
Your love into my soul. be lighter
Touch of love this lighter, lighter
Lighter touch

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

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Dog & Butterfly (1978)

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