Heart

Released: August 31, 2010

Songwriter: Nancy Wilson (Heart) Ben Mink Craig Bartock Ann Wilson

Producer: Ben Mink

I hear a sweeter sound
I see your face
Your endless eyes that carry me way inside
And even though
I know you know
When you bring that smile
It takes my breath and leads me on
To that place I wanna go

Come closer to the sun
The shadows have begun to slip away, away
The emptiness and loneliness undone

Oh no, no turning back
Don't look down, don't look behind
There's nothing there, nothing there
But time gone by, and all that rain
Oh, that endless rain
Will not drown this chance
Believe me now, we can get away
If you take my hand, can I have this dance?

Come closer to the sun
The shadows have begun to slip away, away
The emptiness and loneliness undone

Come closer

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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