Kim Carnes

Songwriter: Jackie DeShannon Donna Weiss

Producer: Val Garay

Hit and run, who is the love killer?
Who ruined the music we thought was so special?
Like fire between us, spent over and over
Who emptied my bed and left me with nothing?

Hit and run, it came so sudden
From the mouth of the kiss that whispered "forever"
From the body of the soul that made my eyes glisten
I'm hearing goodbye but I don't wanna listen

Love will tear and do you in
Turn you inside out and when
All you got is less than dim
You know you're grabbing at straws, you'd do it again

Hit and run, I never saw it coming
I ain't never played the part of the put-down woman
Stripped to the heart with all my defenses
Laying crushed on the ground like matchstick fences

Love will tear and do you in
Turn you inside out and when
All you got is less than dim
You know you're grabbing at straws, you'd do it again

Hit and run, who is the love killer?
Who ruined the music we thought was so special?
Like fire between us, spent over and over
Who emptied my bed and left me with nothing?

(Hit and run) I never saw it coming, no
(Hit and run)
Hit and run, who is the love killer?
(Hit and run) Hit and run
(Hit and run) I never saw it coming, no
(Hit and run)
(Hit and run) I never saw it coming
(Hit and run) I know

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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