Heart

Released: June 5, 1982

Songwriter: Nancy Wilson (Heart) Sue Ennis Ann Wilson

Producer: Sue Ennis Howard Leese Nancy Wilson (Heart) Ann Wilson

Young man is angry, girl is afraid
She want to get high and he want to get laid

She had to jump up, he had to sit down
When they heard the news
About the trouble downtown

He had to shout, she had to cry
He wanted to kill and she wanted to die

City's burning (repeat)

Grab for the dial, tune out the fright
But he turns left and she turns right
She looks for love songs, he buys the drive
But all they can pull is bad news in tonight

City's burning (repeat)

Ooohh mama tell me what todo
Aaahh daddy you better pull us through
Ooohh mama, mama tell me what do do
Aaahh daddy, daddy, daddy you better pull us through now

City's burning (repeat)

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

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From the albums

Private Audition (1982)
Beautiful Broken (2016)

Heart popular songs

City’s BurningHeart

Heart

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