Kim Carnes

Songwriter: Donna Weiss Kim Carnes Collin Ellingson

Producer: Kim Carnes Joey Carbone

Everybody's trying to lose a piece of their heart
But we strain the thread and it tears apart
So many people climbin' and they just can't stop
Livin' for tomorrow, tryin' to beat the clock

Tryin' to change the cycle, going round and round
But the ink's run dry and the book ain't bound
You say give me some direction 'cause I've lost my way
But they don't make maps for the world we made

Playin' with fire, lovin' on a ledge
When emotion stems from some false pretense
Oh remember how it was when love so easily came?
Help me find the feeling again

River of memories
Give it one more try
'Cause you never know until you show
What's there behind your eyes
River of memories
River left in me and I
Disguise it all behind the wall
Of broken hearts gone by

Now I'm runnin' circles just to catch a view
But it seems like love runs away with you
So many people trying, but they just can't see
That a captured heart doesn't want to be free

Playin' with fire, lovin' on a ledge
When emotion stems from some false pretense
Oh remember how it was when love so easily came?
Help me find the feeling again

River of memories
Give it one more try
'Cause you never know until you show
What's there behind your eyes
River of memories
River left in me and I
Disguise it all behind the wall
Of broken hearts gone by

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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