Heart to Heart . With a tale attached below,
Heart to Heart
Heart to Heart ©
Carol Grimes 1988 on Daydreams and Danger CD
Verse 1
There are a billion stories….
Tales you never hear
Young girls are sold as helpless brides
Veiled behind closed walls
Heart to heart
Hand to hand
Eye to eye
We are our destiny …
You…
Heart to Heart …Every woman’s story …
Eye to eye x
You Heart to heart. Every woman’s story
Hand to hand
Verse 2
A girl is taken to an old man
before she is full grown
No love.
Money is paid for her to be enslaved inside a stranger’s home.
Heart to heart Hand to hand
Eye to eye we are our destiny …
You…Heart to Heart … Every woman’s story …Eye to eye
You…
Heart to heart every woman’s story eye to eye.
Verse 3
From the smallest dusty village to a tenement in Rome
The hand that wipes the tears of children
Will tell the greatest tale of all
Heart to heart
Hand to hand eye to eye
We are our destiny …
You…
Heart to Heart …
Every woman’s story …Eye to eye
You
Heart to heart every woman’s story eye to eye
Verse 4
From the Cities and the Townships …
In the Deserts and the Plains
From the Coast up to the Mountains
Women still need to fight to claim
Heart to heart
Hand to hand
Eye to eye
We are our destiny …
You…
Heart to Heart …
Every woman’s story …
Heart to heart
I added this next section for a performance.
From the cities and the townships
The deserts and the Plains
From the Coasts to the highest Mountains
Women are still fighting for the right to claim
Heart to heart hand to hand eye to eye.
The right to live in equality with men
The rape of war, no more
stoned to death no more
No cutting, slicing, blade and knife. No more
cg ©
Spoken…
Women are
Stoned to death
Rape of War
NO MORE SHOULD
Women accept the rights of men to use abuse KILL & MAIM
Cutting slicing blade and knife
NO MORE
Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see.
Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful
Anne Michaels
Singing for women who cared, past and present
Malala Yousafzai
Farzana Parveen (Stoned/Murdered three months pregnant)
Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe (Helping young women scarred by war)
Josefine Baker Maya Angelou
Emily Pankhurst Margaret Pizzey
Camila Batmanghelidjh
Billie Holiday Ella Fitzgerald
Rosa Parks Mary Seacole
Rosa Luxemburg
Wangari Maathai ( Kenyan environmental Political Activist.)
Alice Walker
Sojourner Truth
Born into slavery as Isabella Baumfree
She changed her name to Sojourner after escaping from slavery.
Sappho – 570BC What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful
To old to sing my own song…!
United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1988
My song was submitted without my knowledge, but I had to be informed when it was to be televised
And yes at 42 too old to sing —the men that sang?
At least 3 of them were way older than me.
Was I surprised?
‘Song number 6 was by Carol Grimes, featuring a group called Clinging to the Wreckage, featuring Nicky B.
The song was called “Heart to Heart”.
Mike Batt queried whether this song could be well received by a jury, and didn’t understand the theme, but it was very powerful.’
GEORGE MARTIN ALSO ON THE PANEL KNEW EXACTLY WHAT IT WAS ABOUT
A Story about heart to Heart.
I recorded two albums in the mid-eighties/early 90’s ‘Eyes Wide Open’ and ‘Why don’t they Dance?’ In the 2000’s I had an album called Mother out… and am in the middle of recording tracks for a new one. with my loverly Band with Doran Ford. Fingers crossed. But it’s been sporadic.
There was a guy looking after me who was also looking after Joe Strummer, a bit of an odd pair to manage some would say! We’d been on the same bill a few times, politics, Rock against Racism, Poll Tax so not as strange as it sounds.
He, the manger chap, rang me up and said I’ve bad news/good news. What he had done was to submit, without asking, a song I had written it with my former partner Maciek Hrybowicz, to The Eurovision Song Contest! It was a political feminist song, Heart to Heart, and then it was in the 10 songs to be televised for Public voting on the Wogan Show. By then I was in my late thirties and gigging a lot in London and being part of mixed music and comedy bills. The GLC days…
Someone in the Eurovision camp said ‘bloody hell, Carol Grimes, is she still around?’ I wasn’t even 40! They auditioned various singers, pretty young Blondes, and they ended up with a woman from Bristol who I later found another strange connection with. Viv Stanshall’s Moll The Cat Show .. She was a Lesbian with a fabulous singing voice, but less media friendly back then, than I would have been!
We were invited to the transmission and met George Martin who was on the judging panel. He had managed to swing my song in, but admitted afterwards we didn’t stand a chance in hell! It was a good song but certainly not Eurovision. That was a big sign to me that if my name did come up it was with derision at my great age! I was gigging 4-5 nights a week! They can stop you being promoted but they cant stop you singing!
So, ageist then!
Sappho 570 BC