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Chicago 19 is the sixteenth studio album by the American band Chicago, released in 1988. After recording Chicago 18 with David Foster, the band worked primarily with producers Ron Nevison and Chas Sandford for this album. Their Full Moon Records imprint moved to Reprise Records.
With a reception similar to its predecessor, Chicago 19 became a success on the album chart, going platinum and yielding hit singles. The album includes "Look Away" (#1), "I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love" (#3), and "You're Not Alone" (#10). A slightly remixed version of Jason Scheff's "What Kind Of Man Would I Be?" (#5) would also be successful in late 1989, as part of the follow-up Greatest Hits 1982-1989 release. This album is the first Chicago effort to spotlight keyboardist/singer Bill Champlin on lead vocals, who sings all three of the album's hit singles. The album relied heavily on outside writers, continuing a trend from the previous album. The first two singles were written by high-charting Diane Warren, and the third by British-born songwriter Jimmy Scott.
Chicago (i/ʃᵻˈkɑːɡoʊ/ or /ʃᵻˈkɔːɡoʊ/) is the third most populous city in the United States. With over 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the state of Illinois and the Midwest. The Chicago metropolitan area, often referred to as Chicagoland, has nearly 10 million people and is the third-largest in the U.S. Chicago is the seat of Cook County.
Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837, near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed, and grew rapidly in the mid-nineteenth century. The city is an international hub for finance, commerce, industry, technology, telecommunications, and transportation: O'Hare International Airport is the busiest airport in the world when measured by aircraft traffic; it also has the largest number of U.S. highways and rail road freight. In 2012, Chicago was listed as an alpha global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and ranked seventh in the world in the 2014 Global Cities Index.As of 2014, Chicago had the third largest gross metropolitan product in the United States at US$610.5 billion.
Just my heart in pieces
Only you can touch me with your dark eyes
With a look that burns like fire through the lonely night
Sometimes I run, but I can never hide
From the pieces of my heart that fall like rain from the sky
When you hear the thunder
When you hear the sound of a mountain crashing down
It's just my heart in pieces
When I feel the hunger
When I'm reaching out with a hundred thousand hands
It's my heart, heart in pieces
No one cuts through my soul like you can
I'm naked to the bone beside your empty hand
I see your face and I remember
I'm a prisoner of your fate, I'm a loser in the race
When you hear the thunder
When you hear the sound of a mountain crashing down
It's just my heart in pieces
When I feel the hunger
When I'm reaching out with a hundred thousand hands
It's my heart, heart in pieces
I walk the fine line between fire and the ice
The memory lives on
There's always something to remind me
Every teardrop falling when your voice keeps calling
When you hear the thunder
When you hear the sound of a mountain crashing down
It's just my heart in pieces
When I feel the hunger
When I'm reaching out with a hundred thousand hands
It's my heart, heart in pieces
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