Kim Carnes

Songwriter: Marc Jordan Kim Carnes

Producer: Kim Carnes

No sad songs
No tears for you
Don't even have to sleep with the light on
I can see all right

No Coltrane, no midnight blue
No letters of regret, no poems
No wine, no cigarettes
To remind me of you

I'll take these shoes outside the door
And take this heartache right up on the floor
I'm dancin', twirlin' all by myself
Every heartache unwinds one beat at a time

I'm risin' high as the sky
I want to trust someone
Let my hair fall down in the fadin' sun
Won't let tonight pass me by

I'll take this pain behind the door
Take this heartache right out on the floor
I'm dancin', twirlin' all by myself
Every heartache unwinds one beat at a time

I'm dancin', twirlin' all by myself
Every heartache unwinds one beat at a time

Every heartache, baby
Every heartache
Every heartache, baby
Every heartache
Every heartache unwinds one beat at a time

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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