Kim Carnes

Songwriter: Kim Carnes Duane Hitchings Dave Ellingson

Producer: Bill Cuomo Kim Carnes

Abadabadango, can you hear
It's the rhythm of the heart
That beats for a million years

We all have to use
Some kind of magic
Some of the time
Between the laughter and the tears
A place to draw the line

When they say that you can't
Say that you won't
So don't even give it a try

I know, hard as it seems
To take all your dreams
And give 'em just one more time

Abadabadango, can you hear
It's the rhythm of the heart
That beats for a million years

Abadabadango
Getting loud and clear
If you listen close to the voice inside
That you wait to hear

It's the time we spend awake at night
A dream that you've had before
Visions pounding in your head
That you just can't ignore

And are we sometimes blinded by
Stars get in our eyes
Break someone's heart, falling apart
Then start again one more time

Abadabadango, can you hear
It's the rhythm of the heart
That beats for a million years

Abadabadango
Getting loud and clear
If you listen close to the voice inside
That you wait to hear

Abadabadango, can you hear
It's the rhythm of the heart
That beats for a million years

Abadabadango
Getting loud and clear
If you listen close to the
Voice inside that you wait to hear

Abadabadango, can you hear
It's the rhythm of the heart
That beats for a million years

Kim Carnes (born July 20, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter. Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, she began her career as a songwriter in the 1960s, writing for other artists while performing in local clubs and working as a session background singer with the famed Waters sisters (featured in the documentary 20 Feet from Stardom). After she signed her first publishing deal with Jimmy Bowen, she released her debut album Rest on Me in 1972. Carnes' self-titled second album primarily contained self-penned songs, including her first charting single “You’re a Part of Me”, which reached No. 35 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart in 1975. In the following year, Carnes released Sailin', which featured “Love Comes from Unexpected Places”. The song won the American Song Festival and the award for Best Composition at the Tokyo Song Festival in 1976.

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