After learning guitar at the age of 12, Scaggs met Steve Miller at St. Mark's School of Texas in Dallas. In 1959, he became the vocalist for Miller's band The Marksmen. The pair later attended the University of Wisconsin together, playing in blues bands like The Ardells and The Fabulous Knight Trains. Leaving school, Scaggs briefly left Texas to join the burgeoning rhythm and blues scene in London. After singing in bands such as The Wigs and Mother Earth, he recorded his first solo album Boz in 1965, which was not a commercial success. He traveled to Sweden as a solo performer and did a brief stint with the band The Other Side with fellow American Jack Downing and Brit Mac MacLeod.
Returning to the US, Scaggs promptly headed for the booming psychedelic music center of San Francisco in 1967. Linking up with Steve Miller again, he appeared on the Steve Miller Band's first two albums Children of the Future and Sailor, which won over critical reviews. After being spotted by Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner, Scaggs secured a solo contract with Atlantic Records in 1968. Despite good reviews, his first Atlantic album was met with lukewarm sales, as were followup albums on Columbia Records. In 1976, he linked up with session musicians who would later form Toto and recorded his smash album Silk Degrees. The album reached number 2 on the US charts and number 1 in a number of countries across the world, spawning three hit singles: "Lowdown", "Lido Shuffle", and "What Can I Say", as well as the MOR standard "We're All Alone", later a hit for Rita Coolidge. A sellout world tour followed, but his follow-up album, the 1977 Down Two Then Left, lacked the cohesion of Silk Degrees.
Scaggs' 1980 album Middle Man would spawn two top 20 hits, "Breakdown Dead Ahead" and "Jojo," and Scaggs would enjoy two more hits over 1980 and 1981 ("Look What You've Done to Me" from the Urban Cowboy soundtrack, and "Miss Sun" from a greatest hits set).
Scaggs continued to record and tour sporadically throughout the 1980s and 1990s, although he semi-retired from the music business and turned owner of the San Francisco nightclub Slim's. His lengthy hiatus from the music industry slowed his chart career down dramatically.
Scaggs recorded Other Roads in 1988, took another hiatus, and then came back in 1994 with Some Change. In the late 190s he released Come On Home, an album of blues, and My Time, an anthology. He garnered good reviews with Dig, although the CD, which was released on September 11, 2001, was lost in the post-911 melée. In May, 2003, Scaggs released But Beautiful, a collection of jazz standards that debuted at number 1 on the jazz charts.
In 2013 he released the album Memphis
Heart Of Mine
Boz Scaggs Lyrics
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'Till then you'll spend a lifetime wishing one together
You never thought she'd say goodbye
And you'll never understand the reasons why
Heart of mine
How will you keep from dying
Stop reminiscing who is she kissing?
Oh what's the use in trying
No one can mend you now
Love plays cruel games
You can't believe she's found another lover
"Does she miss me?"
Sometimes you just can't help but wonder
No, you can't hold the hands of time
And you'll always be the one she left behind
Heart of mine, how will you keep from dying stop reminiscing
Who is she kissing heart of mine,
Oh what's the use in trying
No one can mend you now
And you'll never understand the reasons why
Heart of mine, how will you keep from dying stop reminiscing
Who is she kissing heart of mine,
Oh, what's the use in trying
No one can mend you now
Oh, heart of mine heart of mine
Heart of mine
The lyrics to Boz Scaggs's song Heart of Mine are about the pain and heartbreak that comes with a lost love. The song acknowledges that love is not always eternal, and sometimes couples must part ways. The first stanza sets up the idea that there may be a true love that lasts forever, but until that time, one will spend their life wishing to find that love. The second stanza focuses on the pain of a lost love, and the confusion that comes with it. The singer acknowledges that they never thought their partner would leave them, and they will never understand why they did.
The chorus, which is repeated multiple times throughout the song, asks the singer's heart of mine how it will keep from dying and how they will stop reminiscing about their ex-partner kissing another person. The singer recognizes that they cannot hold the hands of time, and they will always be the one their partner left behind. The final line of the song, "Heart of mine," is a direct address to the singer's own heart, asking it to mend and move on from the damage left by lost love.
Overall, the song speaks to the universal experience of heartbreak and the struggle to move on from lost love. It recognizes that even though love can be fleeting, the pain of losing that love can last a lifetime.
Line by Line Meaning
One day you may find true love that will last forever and ever
Someday you may discover genuine love that endures for an eternity
'Till then you'll spend a lifetime wishing one together
Until then you'll long for a lifetime to be with your true love
You never thought she'd say goodbye
You couldn't imagine that she would bid adieu
And you'll never understand the reasons why
And you will never comprehend why she left you
Heart of mine
My innermost feelings and thoughts
How will you keep from dying
How will I survive the heartbreak
Stop reminiscing who is she kissing?
Don't dwell on thoughts of who she's with now
Oh what's the use in trying
Oh, what's the point in attempting to recover
No one can mend you now
No one can repair the damage done to me
Love plays cruel games
Love can be harsh and cruel
You can't believe she's found another lover
It's hard to accept that she's found someone else
"Does she miss me?"
"Does she think about me?"
Sometimes you just can't help but wonder
At times you simply cannot stop pondering
No, you can't hold the hands of time
You cannot turn back time
And you'll always be the one she left behind
And you will forever be the one she abandoned
Oh, heart of mine heart of mine Heart of mine
Oh, my innermost feelings and thoughts
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
Written by: William R Royce Scaggs
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