Heart

Don't go giving up
I know life's being tough on you
You got nothing left to lose
Play it smart

Don't go giving up
I know your world is burning down
But nothing is lost that can't be found
In your heart

Just go flying right through the flame
Survival is the name of the game

Yes, you can take the heat
Yes, you can take the heat
You can wake up to the beat
Yes, you can take the heat

Don't go giving up
This might be your lucky day
I see your payday on the way
Play it smart

Don't go giving up
Competition's getting hot
Remember every fight you fought
In your heart

Just get up and cut the cards again
Give the wheel a harder spin

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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