Heart to Heart. With a background Tale below. March 19th 2025
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 or knife. No more
Spoken…
Women are stoned to death—the rape of War.
NO MORE SHOULD
Women accept the rights of men to use, abuse, KILL & MAIM
Cutting, slicing, blade and knife. NO MORE.
Anne Michaels.
Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see.
Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.
I sing 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
I was told…. Too 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.
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 manager chap, rang me up and said I’ve got bad news/good news. What he had done was to submit, without asking, to The Eurovision Song Contest! 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, gigging a lot in London and elsewhere, and 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 ended up with a woman from Bristol, whom I later found had another strange connection with. Viv Stanshall’s Moll The Cat Show .. She was a Lesbian with a fabulous singing voice, and as she said, 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 from being promoted, but they can’t stop you from singing! The song was included on an album as part of a show at The Drill Hall Arts Centre. I deliberately put this photo of an elderly woman, even older than I was! She was a Hop picker. On the other side of CD, my darling daughter. A Baby. We are born, we live, we get old, we die, if we are lucky. Some of us die young.
Sappho 570 BC