Heart

Released: August 31, 2010

Songwriter: Nancy Wilson (Heart) Craig Bartock Ann Wilson

Producer: Ben Mink

Down the winding alley ways of Soto
Where the rain is painting down the streets
Where she's walkin' every morning
I don't know

Though her eyes are far away, she looks at you
Through her windows, darkness she don't see
Secrets in her keeping, solitary
Just a fleeting glimpse like floating out to sea

Safronia's marked, she took the sting
She's fillin' the colors in under her skin
Safronia's heart with only one wing
How can she fly
How can she fly on a broken wing
That carries the stain of everything
Safronia's soul is wandering
She just walks on by

Suddenly she's standing there before you
Reaching out her arms just like a child
Her face is like a door you wanna walk on through
And somethin' deep inside just might belong to you

Safronia's mark, she took the sting
She's fillin' the colors in under her skin
Safronia's heart with only one wing
How can she fly
How can she fly with a broken wing
That carries the stain of everything
Safronia's soul is wandering
Walks on by

Hey, Safronia's marked, she took the sting
She's fillin' the colors in underneath the skin
Safronia's heart with only one wing
How can she fly
How can she fly with a broken wing
That carries the stain of everything
Safronia's soul, oh yeah
She just walks on by
She just walks on by

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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