Heartbreaker

Album: In the Heat of the Night (1979)
Charted: 23
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  • 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 it's 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 Writer/s: Cliff Wade, Geoff Gill
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 4

  • Rich from San Francisco Bay Area, California, UsaYou forgot the BEST Heartbreaker of all time: written and performed by Led Zeppelin!
  • Shane from NycHeartbreaker was originally recorded by Jenny Darren of the UK. It is a much slower version.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn March 1st 1980, Pat Benatar performed "Heartbreaker" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'...
    Three months earlier on December 16th, 1979 it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #76; and on March 9th it peaked at #23 (for 1 week) and spent 18 weeks on the Top 100...
    Was track one on her debut studio album, 'In the Heat of the Night', and the album reached #12 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart...
    One other track from the album also made the Top 100, "We Live For Love", it peaked at #27 and was composed by her future husband, Neil Giraldo...
    Ms. Benatar, born Patricia Mae Andrzejewski, celebrated her 61st birthday three weeks ago on January 10th (2014).
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyThis is just one of five different songs that have charted with the title of "Heartbreaker"; the others are by Dionne Warwick, Dolly Parton, Grand Funk Railroad, & Mariah Carey...
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