This is a classic rock song with electronic elements and a duet with both acoustic and electronic percussion and instrumentation. This song evolved and revealed itself as a story of two strangers who meet and impact each others lives in a profound way. The characters are from different worlds and the story unfolds in a lyrical and symphonic journey.

Lyrics

Winning Heart
Marian Simmons and Philip Truitt
©2022

Intro: The Nightingale sings to the stars she knows

He surrounded himself with beautiful women
And all that glitters like the sun

But he never could forget her
Or the things they had done
The things she had said
His heart she had won
That one fateful night
When the moon shone like the sun

CHORUS: She gave him a Winning Heart x3

She feels his heart breaking
She can’t stop it now
And she knows if she holds on
Well it will only make it harder somehow

He gave her a winning heart x3

Philip: I ride at dawn and sail by the even tide

Never a kiss
Never a night
But she feels him holding on
Feels his breath in the night

She gave him a winning heart
And he gave her a winning heart

Two souls collide
In the shadows of the night

The Nightingale sings to the stars she knows and the waters run clear wherever she goes

CHORUS: She gave him a Winning Heart x3