"Dim All the Lights" is a song by Donna Summer released as a single in the latter half of 1979. Taken from her Bad Girls album and produced by longtime collaborator Giorgio Moroder with Pete Bellotte, the track combines Summer's trademark disco beats with a more soulful/R&B-esque sound. This was the third top two single from the album and her sixth consecutive top five single in a row.

"Dim All the Lights" was Summer's only hit single that she wrote alone, with no co-writers. She originally intended to give the song to Rod Stewart, but changed her mind at the last minute. This song also contains the longest sustained note sung by a female artist in a top 40 song in both the US and the UK, at about sixteen seconds. Played at 45 rpm, the recording starts at a nearly perfect 60 beats per second, then shifts to a nearly perfect 120 beats per second after the doubling in tempo at about 38 seconds (short intro version) or 46 seconds (long intro version).

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 come 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 you want
Take me bottom to top
Don't leave anything undone

No, no, no do it tonight
You know the moments are right
Turn my brown body white
Come let's 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...

Dim all the light 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
Though it seldom does
When you find the perfect one
Let it feel you up

Dim all the lights sweet darling
Cause tonight it's all the way
Turn up the old victrola
Gonna dance the night away
Dim all the light sweet darling
Cause tonight it's all the way
Hey baby turn up the old victrola
Gonna steal your heart away

Hey baby dim all the lights sweet darling
Dim it, dim it
And dance the night away
Dim all the lights sweet honey
Gonna steal your hear away

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