Heart

Released: February 14, 1980

Songwriter: Sue Ennis Nancy Wilson (Heart) Ann Wilson

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

I am the one who can please you
Ain't that what you said
You seemed so alone
I guess I was easily led
I showed you my love and babe
I guess it went to your head
When you were hungry, I brought you breakfast in bed

Come on, even it up, even it up, even it up
Come on, even it up, even it up, even it up

Well, a good man pays his debt
But you ain't paid yours yet
Even it
It's time to even it, even it up

Well, I took you over the tracks when you wanted some sin
I brought you satin and herbs from the places I've been
Well, now something tells me, baby
You're going to use me again
You think you can lay down the how and the where and the when
Oh, you think you can

You better even it up, even it up, even it up right now
Oh well, even it up, even it up, even it up

I don't want to bum it all
No, but this ax, she's got to fall
Even it
Come on and even it, even it up, baby
Oh
Oh, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Come on now!

(Guitar solo)

Even it up, even it up, even it up
Even it up, even it up, even it up
Yeah, even it
Even it, even it, come on
Even it up, even it up, even it up, yeah. Whoo!
Even it up, even it up, even it up
Oh, got your hand!

(Instrumental break)

Even it up, even it up, even it up

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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The Essential Heart

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The Essential Heart (2002)

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