Lyrics to
Heaven Can Wait

This version of Heaven Can Wait was released by Meat Loaf in 1977.

Our About Meat Loaf page at Decade Lyrics includes the lyrics for Heaven Can Wait from 1977 as well as all of the other lyrics from Meat Loaf that we have in our lyrics database.

Here's more interesting things in songs and lyrics tied to Meat Loaf or about the 1970s in general.

Heaven can wait,
And a band of Angels wrapped up in my heart,
Will take me through the lonely night,
Through the cold of the day.
And I know, I know,
Heaven can wait,
And all the gods come down here just to sing for me,
And the melody’s gonna make me fly,
Without pain, without fear.

Give me all of your dreams,
And let me go alone on your way.
Give me all of your prayers to sing,
And I’ll turn the night into the skylight of day.
I got a taste of paradise,
I’m never gonna let it slip away.
I got a taste of paradise,
It’s all I really need to make me stay
Just like a child again.

Heaven can wait.
And all I’ve got is time until the end of time.
I won’t look back.
I won’t look back.
Let the altars shine.

And I know that I’ve been released,
But I don’t know to where,
And nobody’s gonna tell me now,
And I don’t really care. No, no, no.
I got a taste of paradise.
That’s all I really need to make me stay.
I got a taste of paradise.
If I had it any sooner you know
You know I never would have run away from my home.

Heaven can wait.
And all I’ve got is time until the end of time.
I won’t look back.
I won’t look back.
Let the altars shine.

Heaven can wait.
Heaven can wait.
I won’t look back.
I won’t look back.
Let the altars shine.
Let the altars shine.

---

Want more lyrics and songs by Meat Loaf?

Meat Loaf has released many songs over the years besides Heaven Can Wait. Meat Loaf released songs from 1977 to 1995 spanning across albums like Bat Out Of Hell, Meat Loaf Featuring Stoney & Meatloaf, Dead Ringer, Midnight At The Lost And Found, Bad Attitude, Blind Before I Stop, Bat Out Of Hell II: Back Into Hell, and Welcome To The Neighborhood. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Meat Loaf.

If you're a fan of popular 1970s songs looking for more songs from 1977 or the 1970s overall, you've come to the right place!

About Lyrics and Heaven Can Wait by Meat Loaf

The lyrics for Heaven Can Wait are defined as the words making up the song released by Meat Loaf in 1977. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Heaven Can Wait have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Meat Loaf and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Heaven Can Wait by Meat Loaf if you think through it. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Heaven Can Wait" means the words set to the music of Heaven Can Wait, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Meat Loaf. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Heaven Can Wait and the lyrics to Heaven Can Wait are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Meat Loaf who came here looking just for the lyrics to Heaven Can Wait, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

More Songs & Lyrics by Meat Loaf

Visit our Meat Loaf profile for more Meat Loaf songs, lyrics & info!

)