Notes From America – 1988

Hide Your Heart (a.k.a. Notes From America), is the seventh album by Bonnie Tyler (Columbia CK-44163) released in 1988. It was produced by Desmond Child. It features the song "Hide Your Heart" that was written by Paul Stanley, Desmond Child and Holly Knight. This song was later covered four times in 1989 on Kiss' Hot in the Shade, Ace Frehley's Trouble Walkin', Robin Beck's Trouble Or Nothin', and Molly Hatchet's "Lightning Strikes Twice". It also features the original version of the track "Save Up All Your Tears", which would be covered, with a faster arrangement, by Cher on her 1991 album Love Hurts. The song, "The Best", is on this album and it was later covered by Tina Turner. Also included is Bonnie Tyler's remake of Tina Turner's 1986 "Don't Turn Around" (which was also a hit for Aswad in 1988).

Label: CBS Columbia Records Lenght: 44 perc Genre: arena rock

01. Notes From America 4:55

02. Hide Your Heart 4:25

03. Don't Turn Around 4:18
04. Save Up All Your Tears 4:23

05. To Love Somebody 5:50
06. Take Another Look At Your Heart 3:46

07. The Best 4:15

08. Shy With You 3:45

09. Streets Of Little Italy 4:37

10. Turtle Blues 4:11

01. Notes From America (Desmond Child)

Somewhere in America
The tour bus roars through the dead of night
You know what I mean
Here it comes and goes so fast
Lookin' out this window
Sometimes I wish that I was back
And this was all a dream

I been up and down
I been lost and found
In America, in America
I been turned around
Till I don't know where I'm bound
In America, in America
And I miss you now
Just a note from America...

Livin' on the road again
I'm the only woman
In this rock and roll band
Fifty stated of one night stands
You know what I mean
Railroad crossing, midnight train
Just the lonely sound
Of the clickety-clack
Still I know I can't turn back
American dream...

I been up and down
I been lost and found
In America, in America
I been turned around
Till I don't know where I'm bound
In America, in America
And I miss you now
Just a note from America...

Sometimes when it gets to me
I dream that you are next to me
I can feel you near whisperin' my name
I can feel your touch take away my pain
I can hear you say,
"I just want to love you again"
Baby, baby

02. Hide Your Heart (Desmond Child)

Johnny saw her ridin' on a streetcar named "Desire"
His fate was sealed
She could see him comin' like a hundred other liars
It was no big deal
Rosa had a lover on the shady side of town
Tito, he was ding of the streets
She was his possesion like a jewel on his crown
Johnny better run, better run

Better hide your heart
Better hold on tight
Better say your prayers
Cause there's trouble tonight
When pride and love battle with desire
Better hide your heart
Cause you're playin' with fire
Ah, ah, ah, ah, Hey, hey, hey, hey, do, do, do, do,

The ride was over but the story doesn't end
He took her heart
She looked him in the eye
And said they couldn't meet again
You could see the trouble start
The word went out that Rosa's messin' with someone
It was on the street
Tito looked for Johnny with a vengeance and a gun
Johnny better run, better run

Johnny's holdin' Rosa on a rooftop in the night
As time stood still
They couldn't hear him comin'
Till he gad them both in sight
You could feel the chill
A shot rang out like thunder
And the blood was on her hands
With nothing won
When someone lies there dyin'
Lovers finally understand

03. Don't Turn Around (Diane Warren; A. Hammond)

If you wanna leave
I won't beg you to stay
And if you gotta go darling
Maybe it's better that way
I'm gonna be strong
I'm gonna do fine
Don't worry about this heart of mine
Just walk out that door
Yeah see if I care
Go on and go now but

Don't turn around
Cause you're gonna see my heart breaking
Don't turn around
I don't want you seeing me cry
Just walk away
It's tearing me apart that you're leaving
I'm letting you go
But I won't let you know

I won't miss your arms around me
Holding me tight
If you ever think about me
Just know that I'll be alright
I'm gonna be strong
I'm gonna do fine
Don't worry about this heart of mine
I know I'll survive
Sure I'll make it through
And I'll even learn to live without you

Don't turn around
Cause you're gonna see my heart breaking
Don't turn around
I don't want you seeing me cry
Jut walk away
It's tearing me apart that you're leaving
I'm letting you go
But I won't let you know

I wish I could scream out loud
That I love you
Wish I could say to you
Don't go don't go don't go but

Don't turn around
Cause you're gonna see my heart breaking
Don't turn around
I don't want you seeing me cry
Just walk away
It's tearing me apart that you're leaving
I'm letting you go
But I won't let you know

04. Save Up All Your Tears (Desmond Child)

I can't figure you out
But a heart must be the one thing
You were born without
I'm through wasting my time
I don't know where I'll sleep tonight
you say that you can do without me
Go ahead now, try and live without me

Baby, save up all your tears
You might need them someday
When the tears start to fall
I won't wipe them away
When you cry in the night
For the love that you need
Baby, save up your tears
Cause you'll be cryin' over me

You got used to my touch
I got used to not feeling much
Winter set in your eyes
Time will melt your castle of ice
You think that you won't feel the pain now
Your eyes will be cryin' like the rain now

Baby, save up all your tears
You might need them someday
When the tears start to fall
I won't wipe them away
When you cry in the night
For the love that you need
Baby, save up your tears
Cause you'll be cryin' over me

You don't know it now
But some wounds get deeper with time
You don't feel it now
Till the need burns, a knife turns
Your heart bleeds like mine

05. To Love Somebody (B. Gibb; R. Gibb; M. Gibb)

There's a light
A certain kind of light
That never shone on me
I want my life to be lived with you
There's a way, everybody say
To do each and every little thing
But what good does it bring, if I ain't got you
If I ain't got you

You don't know what it's like
Baby you don't know what it's like
To love somebody, to love somebody
The way I love you

In my pain, I see your face again
It's burning in my mind
You ain't got to be so blind that I'm alive
I'm a woman, can't you see what I am
I live and breathe for you
But what good does it do, if I ain't got you
If I ain't got you...

06. Take Another Look At Your Heart (Desmond Child)

There must be somethin' that we can share
Why is it all or nothin' everywhere
You got your life and I got mine
Why's our relationship hangin' on the line
I just want to know you
I just want to love you
More than words can say

Baby, take another look at your heart
And tell me you don't want me
Baby, tell me you're not comin' apart
I can hold out 'til you break
Baby, take another look at your heart

You're breakin' up, that's no surprise
So much invested in our so-called "love lives"
Give it up, heart over mind
You can't explain away
The tears you been cryin'
I don't want to own you
I just want to know you
I just want to love you
More than words can say

07. The Best (Holly Knight; M. Chapman)

I call you when I need you
And my heart's on fire
You'll come to me, come to me
Wild and wired
You come to me, give me everything I need

You bring a lifetime of promises
And a world of dreams
You speak the language of love
Like you know what it means
And it can't be wrong
Take my heart and make it strong

Cause you're simply the best
Better than all the rest
Better than anyone
Anyone I ever met
I'm stuck on your heart
I hang on every word you said
Tear us apart
Baby I would rather be dead

Deep in your heart
I see the start
Of every night and every day
And in your eyes I get lost
I get washed away
Just as long as I'm here in your arms
I could be in no better place

08. Shy With You (R. Seidman)

More than often when I'm with you
I become a nervous kid
I imagine your old girlfriends
I imagine what you did
I don't know if this is normal
I don't know if this is love
With you I get so formal
And I feel all this other stuff

Shy with you
Though I've been around the block
Shy with you
Cause you're the one I really want 

Other guys I don't care about
So easy with them
Anything you can do without
So easy to win
I can't do without wyour love
So I try to be cool
Everytime you call my bluff
I just stand there like a fool

Shy with you
Though I've been around the block
Shy with you
Cause you're the one I really want
Shy with you
Sometimes a heart can hurt a lot
Shy with you
Cause you're the one I really want

I need your love
I need your love to see me through
I want you
I want you and so it's true
Shy with you...shy with you...shy with you

09. Streets Of Little Italy (R. Seidman)

The narrow and the winding ways
The streets of old New York
The families, the street life, the spark
The rooftop where we watched
San Gennaro's festival
Masqueraders in the dark
On the streets down in Little Italy
Where the past goes on and on forever
And I feel it ever present
In every step I take alone
On the streets down in Little Italy

The oceans and the years
That separate our lives
From these streets we once called our home
Those distances of space and time
How strong they are
And how weak they are
On the streets down in Little Italy
Where the past goes on and on forever
And I feel it ever present
In every step I take alone
On the streets down in Little Italy

Does the morning sunlight
Still hit the bed where we used to lie
Do the sidewalk stands and markets still overflow
Where I lingered till I was empty
Where I stayed till I had to go
Though in the night
Sometimes I see you disappear
Down cobblestones
On the streets down in Little Italy
Where the past goes on and on forever
And I feel it ever present
In every step I take alone
Like your presence in my bones
On the streets down in Little Italy

10. Turtle Blues (Janis Joplin)

I'm a mean, mean woman
I don't mean no one man no good
I'm a mean, mean woman
I don't mean no one man no good
I just treats 'em like I wants to
Never ever treats 'em honey, like I should

Oh lord I once had a daddy
He said he'd give me everything in sight
Once had a daddy
Said he'd give me everything in sight
I said Hon, I want the sunshine
And take the stars out of the night

I ain't the kind of woman
Who'd make your life a bed of ease
I'm not the kind of woman
To make your life a bed of ease
Yeah, but if you just wanna go out drinkin', honey
Invite me along please 

I guess I'm just like a turtle
Hidin' underneath his horny shell
Just like a turtle
Hidin' underneath his horny shell
But you know I'm very well protected
I know this doggone life too well

Oh, they call me mean, people call me evil
I'm not the kind of woman you can mess around
They call me mean, people call me evil
I'm not the kind of woman you can mess around
But I'm gonna take good care of Bonnie, yeah
There ain't no one gonna talk me down...