Heart' signature 1977 song expressing protest against their previous record label, laced with anger towards rumors and innuendos on the sounding sisters.
From the 3x Platinum album Little Queen
To one’s surprise, the song is sampled in the entrance music for the San Jose Barracuda.
[Intro]
[Verse 1]
So this ain't the end, I saw you again today
I had to turn my heart away
Smile like the sun, kisses for everyone
And tales, it never fails
[Chorus]
You lying so low in the weeds
I bet you gonna ambush me
You'd have me down, down, down, down on my knees
Now wouldn't you, Barracuda? Oh
[Instrumental Bridge]
[Verse 2]
Back over time, we were all trying for free
You met the porpoise and me, uh-huh
No right, no wrong, selling a song, a name
Whisper game
[Chorus]
And if the real thing don't do the trick
You better make up something quick
You gonna burn, burn, burn, burn, burn to the wick
Ooh, Barracuda, oh, yeah
[Bridge]
"Sell me, sell you," the porpoise said
Dive down deep now to save my head
You, I think that you got the blues, too
All that night and all the next
Swam without looking back
Made for the western pools, silly, silly fools
[Guitar Solo]
[Chorus]
The real thing don't do the trick, no?
You better make up something quick
You gonna burn, burn, burn, burn, burn it to the wick
Oh, Barra-Barracuda, yeah
[Outro]
Barracuda was written by Nancy Wilson (Heart) & Michael Derosier & Roger Fisher & Ann Wilson.
Barracuda was produced by Mike Flicker.
The song was a center of the controversial abrasive campaign of the Northern Barracuda, Sarah Palin for the Vice President in Senator McCain’s failed 2008 campaign.
The band objected vehemently to the song’s use on the campaign (Her nickname was “Barracuda” when playing basketball in high school an...