THE WANDERER by Donna Summer [1980]

Woke up this morning

Dragged myself across the bed

Alice went to wonderland

But I stayed home instead

I started feeling bad

'Cause I was left behind

'Cause I'm a wanderer

Oh yes, I'm a wanderer

She climbed right through the mirror

Oh that really blew my mind

I think I'll follow through her rhythm

And her rhyme

I know I'm ready now

It's just a little time

'Cause I'm a wanderer

I'm a wanderer

'Cause I'm a wanderer

I travel every place

'Cause I'm a wanderer

From here to outer space

'Cause I'm a wanderer

Got no time

'Cause I'm a wanderer

Just a wanderer

Slipped down the back stair

On my toes

Then out the door

They didn't hear

Now they won't

See me anymore

'Cause I can't take

That nine to five life

It's a bore

'Cause I'm a wanderer

Just a wanderer

And so it's up and out

And on and off the road

Won't have no troubles

'Cause the whole world

Is my home

No need to worry

'Cause I seldom am alone

'Cause I'm wanderer

I'm a wanderer

'Cause I'm a wanderer

I travel every place

'Cause I'm a wanderer

From here to outer space

'Cause I'm wanderer

Got no time

'Cause I'm a wanderer

Just a wanderer

'Cause I'm a wanderer

Just a wanderer

Now you may see me

Any time and any place

And you may know me

From the same look

On your face

And I don't know if I could

Change your frame of mind

'Cause I'm a wanderer

Just a wanderer

'Cause I'm a wanderer

I travel every place

'Cause I'm a wanderer

From here to outer space

'Cause I'm a wanderer

Got no time

'Cause I'm a wanderer

'Cause I'm a wanderer

'Cause I'm a wanderer

'Cause I'm a wanderer

I travel every place

'Cause I'm a wanderer

From here to outer space

'Cause I'm a wanderer

Got no time

'Cause I'm a wanderer

I travel every place

'Cause I'm a wanderer

From here to outer space

'Cause I'm a wanderer

Got no time

Written by Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder.

SHE WORKS HARD FOR THE MONEY by Donna Summer

She works hard for the money

So hard for it honey

She works hard for the money

So you better treat her right

She works hard for the money

So hard for it honey

She works hard for the money

So you better treat her right

Onetta there in the corner stand

And she wonders where she is

And it's strange to her

Some people seem to have everything

Nine a.m. on the hour hand

And she's waiting for the bell

And she's looking real pretty

Just waiting for her clientele

She works hard for the money

So hard for it honey

She works hard for the money

So you better treat her right

She works hard for the money

So hard for it honey

She works hard for the money

So you better treat her right

Twenty eight years have come and gone

And she's seen a lot of tears

Of the ones who come in

They really seem to need her there

It's a sacrifice working day to day

For little money just tips for pay

But it's worth it all

Just to hear them say that they care

She works hard for the money

So hard for it honey

She works hard for the money

So you better treat her right

She already knows

She seen her bad times

She already knows

These are the good times

She'll never sell out

She never will

Not for a dollar bill

She works hard

She works hard for the money

So hard for it honey

She works hard for the money

So you better treat her right

(Repeat)

Written by Donna Summer, Michael Omartian.

LOVE IS IN CONTROL (Finger On The Trigger) by Donna Summer

I've hung around with big shots

Never knew love was in the sights

I guess I missed the target

Caught up in a different line of fire

But I know since I've been aiming

For the sweetness in your soul

Your name is on the bullet

And it's gettin' ready to explode

There's be a change inside my life

And just wanna let you know

I've got my finger on the trigger

Love is in control

I've got my finger on the trigger

Love is in control

Baby let's have some fun

A-won't-cha be my, my number one

Mama used to tell me

Girl ya better load your gun upright

She said ya, ya gotta come out smokin'

Hit it with your best shot ev'ry time

Well I, I didn't understand her

Till you walked right into range

I saw your love at twenty paces

And I knew I'd won the game

You better raise your heart up high

Or love will blow you right away

I've got my finger on the trigger

Love is in control

I've got my finger on the trigger

Love is in control

Leave off the safety catch

There ain't no risk

We're gonna have some fun

(Gonna have some fun oo)

I've got -cha, love's begun

So stay with me until the mornin' sun

You're super bullet number one

Baby, let's have some fun

A-won't-cha be my, my number one

There's been a change inside my life

And I just wanna let you know

I've got my finger on the trigger

Leave off that safety catch

There ain't no risk

We're gonna have some fun

I've got -cha, love's begun

So stay with me until the mornin' sun

Written by Quincy Jones, Rod Temperton
Track from "Donna Summer"

DIM ALL THE LIGHTS by Donna Summer

Dim all the lights sweet darling

Cause tonight it's all the way

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 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 light 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

I 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 your dreaming

We've found the perfect love

And I'm like a cup

So fill me up

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

Do what you want

You can use me all up

Take me bottom to top

Don't leave even one drop

No, no, no

Do it tonight

You know the moments are right

Turn my brown body white

Come on, dim all the lights

Dim all the lights sweet darlin'

Cause the night is on the way, hey baby

Turn up the old Victrola

Gonna dance the night away, hey baby

Dim all the lights sweet darlin'

Dim all the lights sweet honey

Written by Donna Summer.

ON THE RADIO by Donna Summer

Someone found a letter you wrote me, on the radio
And they told the world just how you felt
It must have fallen out of a hole in your old brown overcoat
They never said your name
But I knew just who they meant.

Oh, I was so surprised and shocked, and I wondered too
If by chance you heard it for yourself
I never told a soul just how I've been feeling about you
But they said it really loud
They said it on the air
On the radio whoa oh oh
On the radio whoa oh oh
On the radio whoa oh oh
On the radio whoa oh oh now, now

Don't it kinda strike you sad when you hear our song
Things are not the same since we broke up last June
The only thing that I wanna hear is that you love me still
And that you think you'll be comin' home real soon
Whoa oh yeah yeah
And it made me feel proud when I heard you say
You couldn't find the words to say it yourself
And now in my heart I know I can say what I really feel
'Cause they said it really loud
They said it on the air
On the radio whoa oh oh
On the radio whoa oh oh
On the radio whoa oh oh
On the radio

If you think that love isn't found on the radio
Well tune right in you made find the love you lost
'Cause now I'm sitting here with the man I sent away long ago
It sounded really loud they said it really loud
On the radio whoa oh oh
On the radio whoa oh oh
On the radio whoa oh oh
On the radio whoa oh oh
On the radio whoa oh oh
On the radio, radio, radio

Written by Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder.

HEAVEN KNOWS by Donna Summer & Brooklyn Dreams

Baby please, please don't take your love from me

I am yours for ever more, 'till eternity

Silent please, listen to the words I say

I'm not talking just for play, listen to me please

Heaven knows it's not the way it should be

Heaven knows it' s not the way it could be

Don't you know there's no need to leave

Heaven knows I never wanna leave you

Heaven knows I only wanna please you

Don't you know love is what I need

Down inside, don't get caught with foolish pride

Put all the things aside, there's only you and me

Believe in us, we were always meant to be

Me for you and you for me, 'till eternity…

Heaven knows it's not the way it should be

Heaven knows it' s not the way it could be

Don't you know there's no need to leave

Heaven knows I never wanna leave you

Heaven knows I only wanna please you

Don't you know love is what I need

Heaven knows it's not the way it should be

Heaven knows it' s not the way it could be

Don't you know there's no need to leave

Heaven knows I only wanna love you

Heaven knows I never wanna lose you

Don't you know love is meant to be

Heaven knows it's not the way it should be

And it's no use now

So stop with your pretending

So come on down and hear me when I cry

(Fade)

Written by Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte.

MacARTHUR PARK by Donna Summer

Spring was never waiting for us, dear

It ran one step ahead

As we followed in the dance

Between the parted pages we were pressed

In love's hot, fevered iron

Like a striped pair of pants

Mac Arthur Park is melting in the dark

All the sweet green icing flowing down

Someone left the cake out in the rain

I don't think that I can take it

Cause it took so long to bake it

And I'll never have that recipe again

Oh no ah ha

I recall the yellow cotton dress

foaming like a wave

on the ground beneath your knees

birds like tender babies in your hands

and the old men playing

Chinese checkers by the trees

Mac Arthur Park is melting in the dark

All the sweet green icing flowing down

Someone left the cake out in the rain

I don't think that I can take it

Cause it took so long to bake it

And I'll never have that recipe again

Oh no ah ha

There'll be another song for me and I will sing it

There'll be another dream for me someone will bring it

I will drink the wine while it is warn

And never let you catch me

Looking at the sun, oh yeh

And after all the loves of my life

After all the loves in my life

You'll be the one

I will take my life into my hands

And I will use it

I will win the worship in their eyes

And I will lose it

I will have the things that I desire

And my passion flow like rivers from the sky

And after all the loves in my life

After all the loves in my life

You'll still be the one

And I'll ask myself why

Mac Arthur Park is melting in the dark

All the sweet green icing flowing down

Someone left the cake out in the rain

I don't think that I can take it

Cause it took so long to bake it

And I'll never have that recipe again

Oh no ah ha

Written by Jim Webb.

HOT STUFF by Donna Summer

Sittin' here eatin' my heart out waitin'

Waitin' for some lover to call

Dialed about a thousand numbers lately

Almost rang the phone off the wall

Lookin' for some hot stuff baby this evenin'

I need some hot stuff baby tonight

I want some hot stuff baby this evenin'

Got to have some hot stuff

Got to have some love tonight

I need hot stuff

I want some hot stuff

I need hot stuff

Lookin' for a lover who needs another

Don't want another night on my own

Wanna share my love with a warm blooded lover

Wanna bring a wild man back home

Gotta have some hot stuff baby this evenin'

I need some hot stuff baby tonight

I want some hot stuff baby this evenin'

Got to have some hot lovin'

Got to have some love tonight

I need hot stuff

Hot love

Lookin' for hot love

Hot, hot, hot, hot stuff

Hot, hot, hot

Hot, hot, hot, hot stuff

Hot, hot, hot

How's about some hot stuff baby this evenin'

I need some hot stuff baby tonight

Lookin' for my hot stuff baby this evenin'

I need some hot stuff baby tonight

(Fade)

Written by Pete Belotte, Harold Faltermeyer, Keith Forsey.

BAD GIRLS by Donna Summer

Toot toot hey beep beep

Toot toot hey beep beep

Bad girls

Talkin' 'bout the sad girls

Sad girls

Talkin' 'bout bad girls yeah

See them out on the street at night walkin'

Pickin' up on all kinds of strangers

If the price is right you can score

If your pocket's nice

But you want a good time

You ask yourself who they are

Like everybody else they come from near and far

Bad girls

Talkin' 'bout the sad girls

Sad girls

Talkin' 'bout bad girls yeah

Friday night and the strip is hot

Sun's gone down and they're about to trot

Spirit's high and they look hot

Do you want to get down

Now don't you ask yourself who they are

Like everybody else they wanna be a star

Such a bad girl

Sad girl

You're such a dirty bad girl

Beep beep uh huh

You bad girl

You sad girl

You're such a dirty bad girl

Beep beep uh huh

Now you and me we're both the same

But you call yourself by different names

Now your mother won't like it when she finds out

The girl is out at night

Toot toot hey beep beep

Toot toot hey beep beep

Toot toot hey beep beep

Toot toot hey beep beep

Hey mister have you got a dime

Mister do you want to spent some time oh yeah

I got what you want you got what I need

I'll be your baby come and spend it on me

Hey mister I'll spend some time with you, with you

You're fine

With you

Bad girls

They're just bad girls

Talkin' 'bout sad girls yeah

Sad girl

Hey hey mister got a dime

Written by Joe Esposito, Eddie Hokenson, Bruce Sudano, Donna Summer.