All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You

This song was written by Mutt Lange, the superproducer who worked on some of the biggest albums of the '80s: AC/DC's Back in Black, Def Leppard's Hysteria, and Foreigner's 4. Lange is also a songwriter, typically collaborating with the artists he works with, but in this case the song is all him. Lange wrote the song in the '70s and wanted Don Henley to record it. It ended up going to Dobie Gray ("Drift Away"), who released it in 1979 on his self-titled album. This version went unnoticed, but when Heart recorded the song for their 1990 album Brigade, it was a huge hit, reaching #2 in the US.

This is a very strange song, with Ann Wilson singing about picking up a hitchhiker and having sex with him in a motel, apparently with the intention of getting pregnant. Before daybreak, she leaves, but leaves him a note: I told him I am the flower you are the seed We walked in the garden We planted a tree In the third verse, she encounters him again, and he sees the child they made. It sounds like Ann told another guy (possibly her husband) that the child was his, and she doesn't want the secret to get out: You can imagine his surprise When he saw his own eyes I said please, please understand I'm in love with another man And what he couldn't give me Was the one little thing that you can

The original Dobie Gray version of this song is more upbeat and skips the hitchhiker/love child storyline. Gray simply sings about being smitten and filled with desire: All I wanna do is make love to you There's a million things that we could do And darling, I, just wanna do them with you Mutt Lange is the only credited writer on both versions of the song, so it appears that he re-wrote the lyric at some point.