Heart

Released: August 31, 2010

Songwriter: Nancy Wilson (Heart) Ben Mink

Producer: Ben Mink

Sunflower, blooming in your finest hour
You have come into your power
And you spill it over me

Such petals, standing shameless in the air
Catch the eyes of other lovers
With the colors that you wear

I have only seen you grow
From the seed I used to know
In the burning breath of summer
The garden's afterglow

Sunflower, just the way you speak my name
I will never be the same, oh yeah
Sunflower, never steal your eyes away
Even when the seasons change
A little sun, a little rain

I have only seen you grow
From the seed I used to know
In the burning breath of summer
And the garden's afterglow

Sunflower, a little sun, a little rain
Even when the seasons change
Sunflower, even when the seasons change
A little sun, a little rain

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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