Joan Jett & The Blackhearts

(Joan Jett/Jim Vallance/Kenny Laguna)

I got a word or two cuz I don't understand
What's with me and you it's getting outta hand
Somethin's on your mind, you don't have to shout
Why can't we just talk and figure this thing out

I used to think that you and me would stay together
Why oh why can't we see eye to eye?
Why oh why can't we see eye to eye?

You make me come with you and then you give me grief
When I try to go you never let me leave
If I shut my mouth you think that I don't care
When I try to help you say it's your affair

It's not the way that you and me should treat each other
Why oh why can't we see eye to eye?
Why oh why can't we see eye to eye?

It's breakin' my heart we're grown' apart
An' we never seem to agree
I'm walkin' away we got nothin' to say
But that ain't the way it should be be
(We're history!)

It's such a drag we have this bad misunderstanding
Why oh why can't we see eye to eye?
Why oh why can't we see eye to eye?

After splitting with The Runaways, and releasing her first solo album, Joan Jett placed an ad in LA Weekly looking for bandmates. Gary Ryan, Eric Ambel, and Danny “Furious” O'Brien joined her, creating the orginial Blackhearts lineup.

After their initial tour though, O'Brien was replaced with Lee Crystal.

Early on, keeping the band afloat was not easy. Joan and producer Kenny Laguna struggled, sometimes selling copies of albums from the trunk of his car. Eventually unable to keep up with the demand for Joan Jett’s album, they signed with Boardwalk Records.

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Pure and Simple (1994)

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