Week Thirty: iPod Picks - Cyndi Lauper - "Change of Heart" - The Essential Collection

For Week Thirty, I'm turning my iPod loose (in the form of putting it on shuffle) and letting it do the picking... so the seven songs for this week were chosen by my trusty little iPod who is now holding close to 5000 of my favorite songs and who is slowly but surely dying battery-wise; however, I am too attached to do an upgrade just yet...

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Boy, oh boy! This song takes me way, way back. I remember going to a record store with my mom to purchase the album. My mom has always loved Cyndi Lauper, and she often breaks out into singing “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” at the most random times, even to this very day. Cyndi Lauper was a huge hit on MTV back when we first got cable. So three years later, when we heard “True Colors” (video below the lyrics), we just had to have a copy of it.

Little did I know that this tune, “Change of Heart”, would end up assuming the title of “my favorite” from this album, eventually passing up the song “True Colors”. I think that the video is really what sold me on this song. This video is partially responsible for helping me to fall so madly in love with London.

I guess that my little nine-year-old mind somehow figured that, in London, bands were all over the city, playing on street corners and in city squares. I just knew that if I could somehow get to London, I would meet Cyndi and all of my other musical idols of that time.

I did make it to London eight years later, but lo and behold, there was no Cyndi to be found anywhere. The street corners and city squares were filled with lame tourists, but the spirit of the '80s still permeated the city if I really used my imagination, which was damn near impossible because I was hardly sober for even a minute while I was there – so maybe it was actually drunken delirium that had kicked in!

Here I am
Just like I said I would be
I'm your friend
Just like you think it should be
Did you think I would stand here and lie
While our moment was passing us by
Oh I am here

Waiting for your change of heart
It just takes a beat
To turn it around
Yes I'm waiting for your change of heart
At the edge of my seat
Please turn it around

Days go by
Leaving me with a hunger
I could fly
Back to when we were younger
When adventures like cars we would ride
And the years lied ahead still untried
While I stand here

Waiting for your change of heart...

Blind leading blind
Never feel the laughter
Search through time
Nothing reveals the answer
If it's truth that you're looking to find
It is nowhere outside of your mind
I bide my time
Waiting for your change of heart...