Heartbreaker

Your love is like a tidal wave, spinning over my head
Drownin’ me in your promises, better left unsaid
You’re the right kind of sinner, to release my inner fantasy
The invincible winner, and you know that you were born to be
You’re a Heartbreaker
Dream Maker, Love Taker
Don’t you mess around with me!
You’re a Heartbreaker
Dream Maker, Love Taker
Don’t you mess around – NO NO NO!

Your love has set my soul on fire, burnin’ out of control
You taught me the ways of desire, now its takin’ its toll
You’re the right kind of sinner, to release my inner fantasy
The invincible winner, and you know that you were born to be

You’re a Heartbreaker
Dream Maker, Love Taker
Don’t you mess around with me!
You’re a Heartbreaker
Dream Maker, Love Taker
Don’t you mess around – NO NO NO!

You’re the right kind of sinner, to release my inner fantasy
The invincible winner, and you know that you were born to be

You’re a Heartbreaker
Dream Maker, Love Taker
Don’t you mess around with me!
You’re a Heartbreaker
Dream Maker, Love Taker
Don’t you mess around with me!

You’re a Heartbreaker
Dream Maker, Love Taker
Don’t you mess around with me!
You’re a Heartbreaker
Dream Maker, Love Taker
Heartbreaker!

  • Released October 26, 1979
    Debuted on Billboard December 22, 1979
    Peaked at 23
  • Pat: That was written by these two English guys, Gill and Wade, and it had all these little English colloquialisms that Americans would never say. So the publisher gave it to me to clean up, and I had to figure out all these lyrics. It was making me crazy. But I loved the song from the first time I heard it, so I rewrote the lyrics and we did the song as it appears here. It’s one of my favorites.
    Neil: It was our producer’s idea to drop out all the echo at one point.
    Pat: We were just trying anything, ’cause when your doing it you don’t care, you just do anything. You’re so happy to be there for the first time that you do anything.

 


From the album(s): 35th Anniversary Tour - Live (2015), 8-15-80, All Fired Up - The Very Best of Pat Benatar, Best Shots, In the Heat of the Night, Live From Earth, Pat Benatar - 36 All-Time Greatest Hits, Pat Benatar - Heartbreaker, 16 Classic Performances, Pat Benatar - The Very Best of, Pat Benatar Synchronistic Wanderings Recorded Anthology 1979 to 1999, Summer Vacation 2001 - Live, and We Belong to Pat Benatar - Live at the Electric Ladyland
Author(s): Geoff Gill & Cliff Wade
Time: 3:26
Copyright: @Copyright 1978 by Dick James Music Limited
Song lyrics checked for accuracy with Pat Benatar's Music Anthology

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