Heading West

"Heading West" was written by Lauper, Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly. The same team wrote "My First Night Without You, and the latter two wrote "True Colors", and "I Drove All Night". The song is about moving on from a past relationship, which was the overall theme of the album. A video was also released which was black and white and had Lauper in an empty field. The song was released outside of the U.S. The single was a minor hit in the UK. Cyndi Lauper said in an interview with O Globo newspaper that Heading West was a great song.^[1]

French Canadian pop star Mitsou covered the song as the title track for a 1992 EP and also released it as a single. She added a French spoken word monologue to the end of the song.

Chart performance

Chart (1989)	Peak position
Australia (ARIA Singles Chart)^[2]	117
Colombian Singles Chart	10
Poland Singles Chart	43
UK Singles Chart^[3]	68

References

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↑ "Response from ARIA re: chart inquiry, received 2015-06-05". Imgur. Archived from the original on 2015-06-05. Retrieved 2015-09-24.
↑ Chartstats (1989). "UK Charts". UK Charts. Retrieved 2012-02-12.

External links

Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

Cyndi Lauper singles

She's So Unusual	"Girls Just Want to Have Fun" "Time After Time" "She Bop" "All Through the Night" "Money Changes Everything" "When You Were Mine"

True Colors	"True Colors" "Change of Heart" "What's Going On" "Boy Blue" "Maybe He'll Know"

A Night to Remember	"I Drove All Night" "My First Night Without You" "Heading West" "A Night to Remember" "Primitive" "Unconditional Love"

Hat Full of Stars	"Who Let In the Rain" "That's What I Think" "Sally's Pigeons" "Hat Full of Stars"

Twelve Deadly Cyns...and Then Some	"(Hey Now) Girls Just Want to Have Fun" "I'm Gonna Be Strong" "Come on Home"

Sisters of Avalon	"You Don't Know" "Sisters of Avalon" "Ballad of Cleo and Joe"

Merry Christmas... Have a Nice Life	"Early Christmas Morning"

Shine	"Shine"

At Last	"At Last" "Walk On By"

The Body Acoustic	"Time After Time"

Bring Ya to the Brink	"Set Your Heart" "Same Ol' Story" "Into the Nightlife"

Memphis Blues	"Just Your Fool"

Detour	"Hard Candy Christmas"

Other singles	"You Make Loving Fun" "We Are the World" "The Goonies 'R' Good Enough" "Hole in My Heart (All the Way to China)" "Another Brick in the Wall" "The World Is Stone" "Disco Inferno" "A Christmas Duel" "Girls Just Wanna Set Your Heart"

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