Heart

Released: September 1, 1975

Songwriter: Ann Wilson

Producer: Mike Flicker

In the quiet afternoon you
Left and went down into town
And I just watched the empty road behind you
Where the fog lies kissing the mountainside
You want to lie sleeping, deep inside
Believing that the hungry world won't find you

Well, that's just fine, that's just fine
You've got to believe
And I don't know, I don't know
What I believe anymore
Or whether to leave, or whether to stay
Or what I can say
To make you know
How deep it goes

Somebody turned on the dirty blues
I know you don't like the blues
'Cause the words are always the same
And they kind of remind you
Somebody turned the blues on me
Well I don't like the blues 'cause I can't see
Through the tears that come and make it hard to find you

Come on down
Come on down
You've got to come lay down here
And say those things, those warm things
Right here in my ear
The times that you had that water like wine
So clean and so fine
To make me know
How deep it goes

Well, that's just fine, that's just fine
You've got to believe
And I don't know, I don't know
If I could leave anymore
Even though there's a scar
Still fresh from the war
Don't think about it no more
Letting new love flow
How deep it goes

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

Dreamboat Annie

From the albums

Dreamboat Annie (1975)
Jupiters Darling (2004)

Heart popular songs

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Dreamboat Annie