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Heaven KnowsDonna Summer

Released: August 28, 1978

Featuring: Brooklyn Dreams

Songwriter: Greg Mathieson Pete Bellotte Giorgio Moroder Donna Summer

Producer: Pete Bellotte Giorgio Moroder

[Verse 1: Donna Summer and Joe "Bean" Esposito]
Baby please (Baby please)
Please don't take your love from me (Please don't take your love from me)
I am yours forever more (Evermore)
'Til eternity
Silently (So silently)
Listen to the words I say (Listen to the words I say)
I'm not talking just for play (Just for play)
Listen to me please (Won't you listen to me?)

[Chorus: Donna Summer]
Heaven knows
It's not the way it should be
And heaven knows
It's not the way it could be
And 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

[Verse 2: Donna Summer and Joe "Bean" Esposito]
Down inside (Down inside)
Don't get caught with foolish pride (Don't get caught with foolish pride)
Put all the other things aside (Things aside)
There's only you and me (You and me, you and ...)
Believe in us (Believe in us)
We were always meant to be (Always meant to be)
Me for you and you for me (You for me)
'Til eternity ('Til eternity)

[Chorus: Donna Summer]
Heaven knows
It's not the way it should be
And heaven knows
It's not the way it could be
And 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
And heaven knows
It's not the way it could be
And don't you know
There's no need to leave

Heaven knows
I only wanna love you
And 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 the pretending
So come on child, and hear me
When I cry

Donna Summer

As the unquestioned queen of disco, the one and only Donna Summer lit up the late 70s and 80s with flashy, exuberant vocals and automatic earworms. Born LaDonna Adrian Gaines on Dec. 31, 1948, Summer moved to Germany after being cast in a Munich production of Hair. There, she happened to meet Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte, and the trio conglomerated to form a dynamic music team. With Moroder, Summer forged together her first album, The Hostage, which reached moderate success in Northern Europe. Summer’s big break, however, would come later with the release of 1975’s sexual “Love to Love You Baby”, which became one of disco’s first mainstream hits and reached #2 on the Billboard Charts.

1977 came around with the concept album I Remember Yesterday, which featured the Top 10 single “I Feel Love”. The next year, Summer hit the silver screen with the movie Thank God It’s Friday, whose soundtrack featured one of her own the iconic “Last Dance.” This would later become one of the disco legends' signature songs. “Dance” would take home an Academy Award for Best Original Song, a Grammy, and a Golden Globe, and it jumped to a peak of #3 on the charts.

Yet Summer’s illustrious career was far from finished – Summer’s first live album Live and More featured the single “MacArthur Park”, a melting ballad that was a cover of the Jimmy Webb ballad of the same name. “Park” became Summer’s first – and perhaps most memorable – No. 1 hit, and cemented her status as a vocalist as well as a performer. With the track, she became the first female in modern rock history to hold the top spot in both the Hot 100 and the Billboard 200. 1979, though, would really be the peak of her career.

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