Kim Carnes

Songwriter: Bill Cuomo Dave Ellingson Kim Carnes

Producer: Keith Olsen

The neon sign lights up the room
She lifts the shade to feel the night
The universal song is playing again

And out across the boulevard
The cafe racers find their mark
Closes the door
She going looking for romance

You find it on the radio
You feel it in the air
The universal song is everywhere
You feel it in a heartbeat
And everyone's the same
The universal song is playing again

She sees his face across the street
He turns his head and looks her way
The universal song is playng again
He lifts her up and whirls her round
It's in the touch
It's in the sound
The universal song is starting to play

You find it on the radio
You feel it in the air
The universal song is everywhere
You feel it in a heartbeat
And everyone's the same
The universal song is playing again

The neon sign lights up the room
She lifts the shade to feel the night
The universal song is playing again

And out across the boulevard
The cafe racers find their mark
Closes the door
She going looking for romance

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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