Heart

Songwriter: Nancy Wilson (Heart) Roger Fisher Ann Wilson

Producer: Mike Flicker

Momma says she doesn't want me hang'n around
Whatever you do now, don't let momma know
I slip out in the darkness, in the frosty moonlight
Fly across the silver morning meadow

Candle in the window
Shadow on the shade
I know my love lies waitin' inside
Close the door now
Have a taste of wine
Lord it's been too long a time
Oh, yes it has

Way down in the passing love
Feels so young and fine
Wrap your love around me
The wind is high
Every minute passing, I want to hold you
Every minute comes too long a time…
Too long a time…
Too long a time

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

Little Queen

From the album

Little Queen (1977)

Heart popular songs

Too Long A TimeHeart

Heart

Little Queen