Tina Turner

Released: September 13, 1989

[Chorus 1]
Oh, waiting in the storm
Ask me how I feel?
When things are going wrong
Why don't you ask me how I feel?
The night is awful cold
Ask me how I feel?
You're much too loose to hold
Why don't you ask me how I feel?

[Verse 1]
I close my eyes
To follow you
To my surprise
You're so untrue

[Chorus 2]
And I'm crying
I'm dying

[Verse 2]
Oh I'm waiting in the storm
Ask me how I feel
And when you keep me hanging on
Why don't you ask me how I feel?
The waters run so deep
Ask me how I feel
When I don't get any sleep
Why don't you ask me how I feel?
And when you're down
You lean on me
You're a fool
Too blind to see

[Chorus 2]

[Chorus 3]
Oh I'm waiting in the storm
Why don't you ask me how I feel?
Oh what the hell is going on?
Why don't you ask me how I feel?
When you stay out late at night
Oh ask me how I feel
When you think that I'm uptight
Why don't you ask me how I feel?

[Verse 3]
You don't treat me tender
No matter what I do
But I'm the great pretender
Woah ho ho ho

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[Chorus 3]

[Chorus 1]

[Chorus 3]

[Outro]
Oh I'm waiting in the storm
Ask me how I feel
When things are going wrong
Come on an' ask me how I feel
The night is awful cold
Ask me how I feel

Often dubbed the Queen of Rock & Roll, Tina Turner is arguably among the most iconic of female divas in history, with her prolific career and memorable personality as a performer and a public figure. Hailing from a small town in Tennessee, and born Anna Mae Bullock, Turner has cemented herself as one of music’s greatest entertainers.

Turner’s career in music arose from her frequenting of nightclubs near St. Louis, where she would meet her soon-to-be husband Ike Turner, who would also give her the alias “Tina”. With Ike, she would form the famous Ike And Tina Turner Revue. A dynamic, explosive R&B ensemble, the two became the definition of the genre in the late 60s and early 70s, where R&B/Soul had only tiptoed into the realms of the mainstream. A particularly influential act in popularizing the genre, the Revue went on to release some of music’s most memorable and iconic tracks – a cover of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Proud Mary”, the Phil Spector-penned “River Deep – Mountain High”, and the electric “Nutbush City Limits”. After a host of drug and abuse problems on Ike’s part, with the male Turner eventually engaging in a violent altercation with his wife, Tina decided to leave her husband for the solo life – and it worked.

As a solo artist, with the help of fellow artists like glam rocker David Bowie, Turner tumbled into mainstream success in the 80s with the only number-one hit of her career – the unconquerable love ballad “What’s Love Got To Do With It” as part of her debut solo album, Private Dancer.

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