Heartlight

Album: Heartlight (1982)
Charted: 47 5
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  • Come back again
    I want you to stay next time
    'Cause sometimes the world ain't kind
    When people get lost like you and me
    I just made a friend
    A friend is someone you need
    But now that he had to go away
    I still feel the words that he might say

    Turn on your heartlight
    Let it shine wherever you go
    Let it make a happy glow
    For all the world to see

    Turn on your heartlight
    In the middle of a young boy's dream
    Don't wake me up too soon
    Gonna take a ride across the moon
    You and me

    He's lookin' for home
    'Cause everyone needs a place
    And home's the most excellent place of all
    And I'll be right here if you should call me

    Turn on your heartlight
    Let it shine wherever you go
    Let it make a happy glow
    For all the world to see

    Turn on your heartlight
    In the middle of a young boy's dream
    Don't wake me up too soon
    Gonna take a ride across the moon
    You and me

    And home's the most excellent place of all
    And I'll be right here if you should call me

    Turn on your heartlight
    Let it shine wherever you go
    Let it make a happy glow
    For all the world to see

    Turn on your heartlight
    In the middle of a young boy's dream
    Don't wake me up too soon
    Gonna take a ride across the moon
    You and me

    Turn on your heartlight now
    Turn on your heartlight now Writer/s: Burt F Bacharach, BURT F. BACHARACH, Carol Bayer Sager, CAROLE BAYER SAGER, Neil Diamond
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 8

  • Rupert from Chester UkA beautiful meaningful song,brings tears to my eyes.
  • Seventhmist from 7th HeavenIdiotic, movie-plugging piece of junk. Can't think of a worse song he made than this one.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn September 5th 1982, "Heartlight" by Neil Diamond entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #69, and on November 7th, 1982 it peaked at #5 {for 4 weeks} and spent 19 weeks on the Top 100...
    It reached #1 {for 4 weeks} on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Tracks chart...
    Between 1966 and 1986 he had fifty-five Top 100 records; twelve made the Top 10 with two reaching #1, "Cracklin' Rose" for 1 week on October 4th, 1970 and "Song Sung Blue" for 1 week on June 25th, 1972…
    He just missed having fifteen Top 10 records when "Play Me" {1972}, "If You Know What I Mean" {1976}, and "Yesterday's Songs" {1982} all peaked at #11...
    Neil Leslie Diamond will celebrate her 74th birthday in four months on January 24th {2015}.
  • Adrian from Johor Bahru, MalaysiaThat was Neil's last Top Ten hit on the US charts
  • Esskayess from Dallas, TxDiamond should have been slapped silly for this idiotic merchandising song. Signaled the sad end of desire to hear anything new from him. His 60s-70s stuff was great, but anything after that...PPTTHHHHHH!!
  • Chris from Nagoya, JapanUniversal Studios demanded the songwriters pay $25,000 for use of the idea leading to the song.
  • Jason from Pasadena, CaIf there was a musical version of ET, it would be the part where Elliott sings the song before ET leaves Earth to his home.
  • Abbas from Alger, Otherslt
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