Kim Carnes

Songwriter: Jackie DeShannon Donna Weiss

Producer: Val Garay

Always running for some jet
Rumours keep you hard to get
How far will they let you go
Once they know who's in control
Don't like closing the factory
Don't like to break up the family

You can't say you're easy to please
You can take on plenty of heat
It all gets down to living the life
Going for a piece of the sky
Going for a piece of the sky

Making headlines you don't choose
Cruising through the morning news
It's all right there in white and black
But heroes die behind you back
Can't stay put not you can't be tamed
How could the fence up the open plains

You can't say you're easy to please
You can take on plenty of heat
It all gets down to living the life
Going for a piece of the sky
Going for a piece of the sky

Hold me don't let me go
Stroll me baby coast to coast
Shelter by the desert night
Heartbeat take us out of sight

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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