Kim Carnes

Songwriter: Kim Carnes

Producer: Daniel Moore Dave Ellingson Kim Carnes

Take a smile
And hold it longer
Take a tear
And let it roll down
Take a heart this ol' heart
And make it stronger
Cause we all have to lose in love sometime

Take tonight
And make it brighter
Take my hand
And don't let go
Cause I know you've changed changed your mind
So you better go to her
Cause we all have a right to change our mind sometimes
And we all have to lose in love sometime

And so tonight's another broken heart
In a chain that never ends
Take this broken heart
And help me mend it again

Take a smile
And hold it longer
Take a tear
And let it roll down
Take a heart this ol' heart
And make it stronger
Cause we all have to lose in love sometime

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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