Heart

Released: November 16, 1993

Songwriter: Bob Dylan

Producer: John Purdell Duane Baron

Ring them bells ye heathen from the city that dreams
Ring them bells from the sanctuaries cross the valleys and streams
For they're deep and they're wide and the world's on it's side
And time is running backwards and so is the bride

Ring them bells
Ring them bells
Ring them bells
Ring them bells

Ring them bells St. Peter where the four winds blow
You gotta ring them bells with an iron hand so the people will know
That the rush hour is now on the wheel and the plow
And the sun is going down on the sacred cow

Ring them bells
Ring them bells
Ring them bells
Ring them bells

Ring them bells St. Martha for the poor man's son
You gotta ring them bells so the world will know that God is one
For the shepherd is asleep where the willows weep
And the mountains are filled with little lost sheep

Ring them bells for the blind and deaf
Ring them bells for all of us who are left
Ring them bells for the chosen few who will judge the many
When the game is through
Ring them bells for the time that flies
For the child that cries
When innocence dies

Ring them bells St. Catherine from the top of the roof
Now ring them bells from the fortress from the lilies that bloom
For the lines they are long and the fighting is strong
And they're breaking down the distance between right and wrong

Ring them bells
Ring them bells
Ring them bells
Ring them bells

Ooh ooooh

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.

more tracks from the album

The Essential Heart

From the albums

Desire Walks On (1993)
The Essential Heart (2002)

Heart popular songs

Ring Them BellsHeart

Heart

The Essential Heart