Straight From The Heart: Bryan Adams rock ballad

Straight from the Heart is a rock ballad, which was the first single from Bryan Adams’ first hit album Cuts Like a Knife. The song was Adam’s’ first song to reach the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching #10. It also peaked at #32 on the Adult Contemporary chart, the first Bryan Adams single to reach that chart.

Adams wrote the song when he was 18 years old in the late ‘70s. It was first recorded by Ian Lloyd in 1980, on the album Third Wave Civilization three years prior to Adams’ release. Later, the song was covered by Bonnie Tyler for her album Faster Than the Speed of Night, the album released same year with Cuts Like a Knife.

Straight From The Heart: Rock Ballad

I could start dreaming but it never ends,
As long as your gone we may as well pretend.
I’ve been dreaming,
Straight from the heart.

You say it’s easy but who’s to say,
That we’d be able to keep it this way.
But it’s easier,
Coming straight from the heart.

(Chorus)
Ohhhh, give it to me straight from the heart,
Tell me we can make another start.
You know I’ll never go
but as long as I know
It’s coming straight from the heart.

I see you on the streets from other time,
And all the words would just fall out of line,
While we’re dreaming
Straight from the heart.

(Chorus)
Ohhhh, give it to me straight from the heart,
Tell me we can make, one more start.
You know I’ll never go,
But as long as I know, it’s coming straight from the heart.

Ohhhhh,
Go and leave me darling.

Ohhhhh,straight from the heart,
Tell me we can make one more start
You know I’ll never go, as long as i know
you give it to me now,
Straight from the heart,
Tell me we can make one more start.
You know I’ll never go as long as I know
It’s coming straight from the heart
Give it to me
ohhhhh, nooo
Ohhhh, nooo

Straight from the heart,
You know I’ll never go as long as I know,
It’s coming straight from the heart.

∼ Bryan Adams

Bryan Guy Adams CC OBC (born November 5, 1959) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, and photographer. He is estimated to have sold between 75 million and more than 100  million records and singles worldwide, placing him on the list of best-selling music artists. Adams was the most played artist on Canadian radio in the 2010s and has had 25 top-15 singles in Canada and a dozen or more in the US, UK, and Australia.

Bryan Guy Adams was born on November 5, 1959, in Kingston, Ontario, the son of Elizabeth Jane (née Watson) and Conrad J. Adams, an English couple who emigrated to Canada from Plymouth, South West England in the 1950s. One of his grandmothers and his great-grandmother was from Floriana, Malta. His father, an officer from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in the British Army, joined the Canadian Army and later worked as a United Nations peacekeeping observer and Canadian foreign service diplomat.

Adams travelled with his parents to diplomatic postings in Lisbon, where he attended St. Columban’s school in Lisbon, Portugal, and Vienna, where he attended the American International School Vienna, in the 1960s, and a Scottish Missionary school, The Tabeetha School in Jaffa, Israel in the early 1970s. Raised in Ottawa, he attended Colonel By Secondary School in the Beacon Hill neighbourhood of Ottawa. In 1974, Adams, his mother, and younger brother Bruce moved to North Vancouver while his father was posted abroad. While there, he attended Argyle Secondary School and Sutherland Secondary School.