Cosmic Heart

Album: 10,000 Volts (2024)
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Songfacts®:

  • In "Cosmic Heart," a solo track from Kiss founding guitarist Ace Frehley, he sings about pain and redemption.

    "If you listen to the lyrics, it's about my life," he explained in a track by track for the 10,000 Volts album. "At the very end of the second verse, it talks about me not having fun: 'I woke up one day and my soul wasn't mine.'"

    "I struggled with alcoholism and drug addiction for years and years," he added. "Luckily in 2006 I got sober, and I've been sober 17 years... knock on wood. By the grace of God. And pretty much, that's what that song's about."
  • Frehley is Christian and has turned to his faith in times of trouble. That's reflected in the lyrics:

    I've seen the good and the bad and the strangest of things
    Sometimes I've lost my way but I never gave up my faith


    "People who don't believe in prayer are missing out," he says.
  • Frehley wrote the song with veteran musicians Steve Brown and David Julian. Brown, from the band Trixter, produced the 10,000 Volts album with Frehley.

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