Heart

Released: February 14, 1980

Songwriter: Nancy Wilson (Heart) Sue Ennis Ann Wilson

Producer: Howard Leese Mike Flicker Sue Ennis Nancy Wilson (Heart) Ann Wilson

Please, please, please don't fight me baby
You know this silence has got to stop
Didn't you always want to know
Know my mind
But even now, how come right now
I even hate to bring it up
You get so down
Down on me

All these nights I rocked you
Hey didn't I lay it on you enough
Wasn't it enough
I always tried to give you something wild and sweet, oh yeah
But you know it's hard, it's hard to keep it up
When you get so down
Yeah, you get so down, down on me

Gently, gently I want to dance with you darlin
Breathin, breathe it in, slowly groovin
Wrapped around in these sweet, sweet chains
And romance flames when we move

And you know, you know, you know I can't resist you, no no
I got this burnin' need for you, yeah
So please baby reach into your kindest mind
And tell me, just let me know what I'm supposed to do
When it all comes down on me
When it all comes down down down on me
It all comes down on me yeah
Held me down
Held me down yeah
When you're not around
When I'm all alone again baby
When you leave me darlin'
What am I gonna do when it all comes down on me
You know I'm loving' what you're gonna do when it all comes down on me
When it all comes down
Come on love, just love me, love me like I love you

Heart, lead by Ann and Nancy Wilson, is considered a — or the — Grand Dame of hard rock and heavy metal.

Not only do they have more hit singles and AOR tracks than most other bands (songs we’d go over in detail but they’re listed on this very page in order of popularity) but in some ways deeper respect than many, both for their own groundbreaking talent and appeal and some unusual recognition thereof, including having been picked to perform Stairway to Heaven for Led Zeppelin themselves at the Kennedy Center Honors in 2012, making Robert Plant and company actually cry. Not Rush, not Aerosmith, nor any of the other bands beloved rock/metal that — along with Ann and Nancy’s band — followed Zeppelin by one generation. Just Heart.

Starting in the mid seventies, Heart forged a unique and powerful sound outstanding in their field, and was unusual in topping the charts well into their own second decade in the late eighties, becoming a staple of MTV’s rotation, albeit sometimes crammed by the industry into music videos that the bandmates despised and comment on to this day.

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