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Conviction of the HeartKenny Loggins

Songwriter: Mark Isham G. thomas Kenny Loggins

Producer: Terry Nelson Kenny Loggins

[Intro]
Where are the dreams
That we once had?
This is the time
To bring them back

[Chorus]
What were the promises
Caught on the tips of our tongues?
Do we forget or forgive?
There's a whole other life
Waiting to be lived when
One day we're brave enough
To talk with conviction of the heart

[Verse 1]
And down your streets
I've walked alone
As if my feet were not my own
Such is the path I chose
Doors I have opened and closed

[Chorus]
I'm tired of living this life
Fooling myself, believing we're right when
I've never given love
With any conviction of the heart

[Verse 2]
One with the earth
With the sky
One with everything in life
I believe we'll survive
If we only try

[Verse 3]
How long must we all wait to change
This world bound in chains that we live in
To know what it is to forgive and be forgiven?
Too many years of taking now
Isn't it time to stop somehow?
Air that's too angry to breathe
Water our children can't drink

[Chorus]
You've heard it
Hundreds of times
You say you're aware
Believe, and you care
But do you care enough
Where's your conviction of the heart?
One with the Earth
With the sky
One with everything in life
I believe it will start
With conviction of the heart
With the Earth
With the sky
One with everything in life
I believe it will start
With conviction of the heart

[Bridge]
One Earth
One sky
Only one world
Only one chance
For one life
When will live
(With conviction of the heart)
One child
One dream
And only one life
Give her one chance
For one life
When will we live
Only one Earth
Only one sky
Only one world
We've only got one chance
To live in one life

[Outro]
I believe it's only gonna start
When we begin with
Some conviction of the heart

Kenny Loggins

Singer, songwriter, and guitarist Kenny Loggins has enjoyed more than three decades of success in the music business, as a songwriter and performer, mostly in a soft rock vein. He was born Kenneth Clarke Loggins in Everett, WA in early 1948, and the family later moved to Detroit, and finally to Alhambra, CA when he was in his teens. He initially turned to music as a way of compensating for his extreme shyness, and found that he was, indeed, a talented guitarist and had a voice. For a time in the late ‘60s he was based in Pasadena, studying at Pasadena City College. At the end of the decade, Loggins passed through the lineup of a band called Gator Creek, who were good enough to get signed to Mercury Records. The group recorded one self-titled album, which was issued in 1970 and included an early version of “Danny’s Song,” a track that he later recorded again as part of Loggins & Messina. He also spent time with a short-lived group called Second Helping, and was a member of the stage incarnation of the Electric Prunes during a later phase of that group’s history.

Loggins was proficient on the guitar and piano, but it was his songwriting that allowed him to make his first lasting impression on the music industry. He took a job as a staff writer for Wingate Music, for $100.00 a week, and later that year four of his songs ended up on the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band album Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy. This event was particularly fortuitous, as that album was the first release by the newly reconstituted version of the group, and included what proved to be their biggest hit, “Mr. Bojangles.” The presence of the latter helped make Uncle Charlie one of the group’s biggest selling long-players; and the exposure generated a second hit in the form of Loggins’ own “House at Pooh Corner.”

The success of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s recordings brought Loggins to the attention of former Poco member Jim Messina, who was working as a staff producer at CBS. It was Messina’s intention to produce Loggins' debut album, but he also ended up playing and singing on the record, and it worked out so well that the two ended up in a duo. Loggins & Messina were among the most popular folk-based soft rock acts of the first half of the ‘70s and enjoyed a four-year string of successful albums.

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