Heart

Released: August 31, 2010

Songwriter: Nancy Wilson (Heart) Ann Wilson Craig Bartock

Producer: Ben Mink

Once when I was just a child
Little creature running wild in Queen City
Something happened to me there
They slip it to me in the air in Queen City

Evening shadows started to glow
Colors like you'll never know
Sitting pretty on the hill
Ancient of a million thrills

Yo, ho, yo, ho, gotta keep afloat
Crazy cradle in my leaky boat
Yo, ho, yo, ho, gotta keep afloat
Crazy cradle in my leaky boat

Take me home, home

Later on I got around
Stories of the underground in Queen City
Tales of love and squandering
And tales of spirits wandering in Queen City

Tumble, crawl and reaching bold
Fill it till the glass is full
Standing, screaming, on a hill
Little creature loves me still

Yo, ho, yo, ho, gotta keep afloat
Crazy cradle in my leaky boat
Yo, ho, yo, ho, gotta keep afloat
Crazy cradle in this leaky boat

Can you take me home?
Take me, take me back home

Gotta keep afloat now
In my leaky boat, hmm
Can you take me home? Queen City
In my leaky boat, Queen City, yeah
Take me, take me home, Queen City
Queen City

Can you take me in my leaky boat?
Gotta keep afloat now
Take me, take me home
Queen City in my leaky boat, in my leaky boat

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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