Dim All the Lights Lyrics
Dim all the lights, sweet darling
'Cause tonight it's all the way
Turn up the old Victrola
Gonna dance the night away
[Verse-1]
Love just don't come easy
No, it seldom does
When you find the perfect love
Let it fill you up
[Chorus]
Dim all the lights, sweet darling
'Cause tonight it's all the way, hey, baby
Turn up the old Victrola
Gonna dance the night away
Love just don't come easy
No, it seldom does
When you find the perfect love
Let it fill you up
Dim all the lights, sweet honey
'Cause tonight it's you and me
No need to worry darlin'
'Cause it's for eternity
Love don't come easy
This you know I understand
Want to be your woman
If you'll be my man
Let yourself go freely and I'll
Show you things that you've dreamed of
Don't think that you're dreaming
We've found the perfect love
And I'm like a cup, come fill me up
[Chorus]
Dim all the lights, sweet darlin'
'Cause the night is on the way, oh, baby
Turn up the old Victrola
Gonna dance the night away
[Bridge]
Do what you want
You can use me all up
Take me bottom to top
Don't leave even one drop
[Interlude]
No, no, no do it tonight
You know the moment's so right
Turn my brown body white
Come on dim all the lights
(Dim all the lights) Dim all the lights, sweet darlin'
'Cause the night is on the way, hey, baby
(Dim all the lights) Turn up the old Victrola
Gonna steal your heart away, hey, baby
(Dim all the lights) Dim all the lights, sweet darlin'
(Dim all the lights) Dim it, dim it
(Dim all the lights) Dance the night away
(Dim all the lights) Dim all the lights, sweet honey
(Dim all the lights) Gonna steal your heart away
(Dim all the lights) Keep on dancing
(Dim all the lights) Dim all the lights, sweet darlin'
(Dim all the lights) Nothing, nothing can steal my heart away
(Dim all the lights)...
About
“Dim All the Lights” was the third single from her Bad Girls album and produced by her longtime collaborators Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte.
The track combines Summer’s trademark disco beats with a more soulful/pop sound. This was the third Hot 100 top two hit from the album and her sixth consecutive Hot 100 top five single. It was nominated a Grammy as Best Female Pop R&B Vocal Performance.
Donna said she originally wrote the song for Rod Stewart but decided to keep it for herself. In “VH1 Presents Live and More,” she sings a few bars in Stewart’s love ballad style, before finishing the song with the more familiar disco beat.
Q&A
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“Dim All The Lights” I wrote for my husband. I think I had laryngitis and I sounded like Rod Stewart. And I figured I could give it to Rod Stewart to sing, you know. I ran into Rod at something we were doing, and I was so … petrified that I just couldn’t say it. So I wound up singing it myself, and I’m glad ‘cause it was a hit for me.
— Donna Summer, The Hot Ones, 1983
- 1.Hot Stuff
- 2.Bad Girls
- 4.Walk Away
- 5.Dim All the Lights
- 9.On My Honor
- 13.Our Love
- 14.Lucky
- 15.Sunset People
