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Maria Luisa McKee (born August 17, 1964, Los Angeles, California) is an American singer and songwriter. She is best known for her work with Lone Justice and her 1990 UK solo chart-topping hit, "Show Me Heaven".
McKee was a founding member of the cowpunk/country rock band, Lone Justice, in 1982, with whom she released two albums. Several compilations of both previously released and unreleased material and a BBC Live In Concert album have been released since their demise. Her band opened for such acts as U2.
When she was 19, she wrote Feargal Sharkey's 1985 UK number one hit "A Good Heart", a song she has since recorded herself and released on her album Late December. The song was originally written about her failed relationship with musician Benmont Tench. Sharkey would later go on to also cover "To Miss Someone" from her self-titled solo debut, on his third solo album "Songs From The Mardi Gras".
In 1987 she was featured in the Robbie Robertson video "Somewhere Down the Crazy River", and contributed back-up vocals to his debut solo album, which included the song. She released her first solo, self-titled album in 1989. Her song "Show Me Heaven", which appeared on the soundtrack to the film Days of Thunder, was a number one single in the United Kingdom for four weeks in 1990. She refused to perform this song in public up until recently, when she sang it for the first time in eighteen years, at Dublin Gay Pride.
I used to have time on my hands
I used to have time on my hands
My world is like a cyclomen
Tied to my ankle by a piece of string
Gotta kick it around and watch it spin
I used to have time on my hands
Now I got too many heroes and not enough friends
(You were both to me)
Too many heroes and not enough friends
But I have no regrets as you are in my arms again
I used to travel all the world
I used to travel all the world
I’d try a watch in every town
A time change never got me down
I’d wind 'em up and took a spin
I used to have time on my hands
Now I got too many heroes and not enough friends
(You were both to me)
Too many heroes and not enough friends
But I have no regrets as you are in my arms again
I used to sleep so peacefully
My eyes were hush, my thoughts were free
But now my pillow is a storm
My sheets are playing tug-o-war
There’s nothing here to keep me warm
Missing you is such a chore
I rarely daydream anymore
Now I got too many heroes and not enough friends
(You were both to me)
Too many heroes and not enough friends
But I have no regrets as you are in my arms again
Too many heroes and not enough friends
Too many heroes and not enough friends
Too many heroes, too many heroes
(You were both to me)
Too many heroes, too many heroes and not enough friends
(You were both to me)
Not enough friends
Too many heroes, too many heroes