Joan Jett & The Blackhearts

Released: September 30, 2013

Songwriter: Laura Jane Grace Kenny Laguna Joan Jett

I thought that we were special
That you are the one for me
We don't hold well together
And I started to believe
Our love was invincible
And then the cracks started to unglue like me and you
We were fated to be together
We were fated to be apart
We were soulmates and then we were strangers
The mood had started changing
Then I knew I had to leave
There's no point in blaming
When we were both so naive
Do you think you ever loved me
And do you think of me, do you think I think of you
We were fated to be together
We were fated to be apart
We were soulmates and then we were strangers
We were soulmates that turned into strangers
Now I thought you were my best friend
And I know you felt it too
But then we hit a dead end
Was like someone I never knew
I know that we were intimate
But that's the part that I don't recall at all
We were fated to be together
We were fated to be apart
We were soulmates and then we were strangers
We were soulmates that turned into strangers
We were soulmates and now we are strangers

After splitting with The Runaways, and releasing her first solo album, Joan Jett placed an ad in LA Weekly looking for bandmates. Gary Ryan, Eric Ambel, and Danny “Furious” O'Brien joined her, creating the orginial Blackhearts lineup.

After their initial tour though, O'Brien was replaced with Lee Crystal.

Early on, keeping the band afloat was not easy. Joan and producer Kenny Laguna struggled, sometimes selling copies of albums from the trunk of his car. Eventually unable to keep up with the demand for Joan Jett’s album, they signed with Boardwalk Records.

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