Dim All The Lights

“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. “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

Dim All the Lights Lyrics Donna Summer [Intro] 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 [Hook] 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] [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 [Outro Chorus] Dim all the lights sweet darlin' 'Cause tonight it's all the way, hey baby Turn up the old victrola Gonna steal you heart away, hey baby Dim all the lights sweet darlin' Dim it, dim it, and dance the night away Dim all the lights sweet honey Gonna steal your heart away, keep on dancin' Dim all the lights the lights sweet darlin', nothing Nothing, can steal my heart away Produced By Pete Bellotte & Giorgio Moroder Written By Donna Summer Release Date April 25, 1979