Kim Carnes

Songwriter: Kim Carnes

Producer: Kim Carnes Joey Carbone

A familiar story
A sad affair of the heart
We spend all this time
Tryin' to find the glow in the dark

Gentle changes
The eyes still look the same
A familiar heartbeat
I go weak when you walk in

I'm hangin' on by a thread
Too many voices in my ear
Too many memories locked in here
I'm hangin' on by a thread
Too many voices in my ear
We hurt each other
Then wonder why
We lie broken in two

I was dreaming
That you were here with me
And through an open window
We could look through straight to the sea

I'm hangin' on by a thread
Too many voices in my ear
Too many memories locked in here
I'm hangin' on by a thread
Too many voices in my ear
We hurt each other
Then wonder why
We lie broken in two

And if I lose you now
Lose you now

A familiar story
A sad affair of the heart

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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