Heart

Released: August 31, 2010

Songwriter: Nancy Wilson (Heart) Ben Mink Ann Wilson

Producer: Ben Mink

I looked outside of my window
There was fear in the beat of my heart
There was desert as far as the eye could see
Blistering, dusty and hard

I texted you in desperation
I said, "Heaven, forbid this place
It's hotter than hell and I'm losing my cool
It's just not of the human race", no, no

Way down low, death valley
A thousand miles to go, oh
Way down low, death valley, yeah
A thousand miles to go

Ooh, what if the engine should break down?
What if a tyre should blow?
What if my soul should slip off this bus
And land in the inferno?

Bouncing and tumbling onward
Watching in vain for a change
A windmill, a billboard, a Joshua tree
A rusted old home on the range, yeah

Way down low, hey, hey, death valley
A thousand miles to go, death valley
Way down low, hey, oh
A thousand miles to go

Slippery sand in the back of my throat
Silica in my eyes
Pretty soon this will all be another bad dream
If we make it to the other side
If we make it, if we make it

Death valley, hey
A thousand miles to go, yeah, death valley
Way down low, death valley
A thousand miles to go, hey

And ain't it a human race, no
Ooh, not of the human race

I got slippery sand in the back of my throat
Silica in my eyes
Just another bad, bad dream
If we make it to the other side

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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