Heart

Released: October 23, 2007

Songwriter: Nancy Wilson (Heart) Ann Wilson

Cold late night, so long ago
When I was not so strong, you know
A pretty man came to me
Never seen eyes so blue
You know I could not run away, it seemed
We'd seen each other in a dream
Seemed like he knew me
He looked right through me
Yeah

"Come on home, girl", he said with a smile
"You don't have to love me yet, let's get high awhile"
"But try to understand"
"Try to understand"
"Try, try, try to understand"
"I'm a magic man"

Winter nights, we sang in tune
Played inside the months of moon
Never think of never
Let this spell last forever
Well, summer lover passed to fall
Tried to realize it all
Mama says she's worried
Growing up in a hurry
Yeah

"Come on home, girl", Mama cried on the phone
"Too soon to lose my baby" and "My girl should be at home"
But try to understand
Try to understand
Try, try, try to understand
He's a magic man, Mama
Ah, he's a magic man

"Come on home, girl," he said with a smile
"I cast my spell of love on you, a woman from a child"
But try to understand
Try to understand
Oh, oh
Try, try to understand
Try, try, try to understand
He's a magic man
Oh, yeah
Ooh, he got the magic hands

Oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

"Come on home, girl," he said with a smile
"You don't have to love me yet, let's get high awhile"
But try to understand
Try to understand
Try, try, try to understand
He's a magic man
Yeah
Oh

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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Dreamboat Annie Live

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Dreamboat Annie Live (2007)

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