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It was never recorded, but the first person to ever sing Heaven Can Wait was Alaina Reed Hall [1]

Jim Steinman in country-western style on a demo recording[1] - this tape also contains a demo of an unreleased song called "Train of Love"

Bette Midler with the same country-western backing track as above, on a demo recording

A draft script of More Than You Deserve calls for the song to be sung by the character Nin Hua, but it does not appear in the final version of the show.

Ellen Foley in the Neverland musical - this version also contains Baal's and Wendy's wedding vows, which later became the "Hot Summer Night" spoken intro to "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth"

Meat Loaf on Bat Out of Hell

Ellen Foley on Live in Amsterdam

Karla DeVito on Is This a Cool World or What?

Gregorian on Masters of Chant, Chapter II

The Dream Engine at various live performances

Blake on And So It Goes

Ellen Foley at Total Eclipse: The Music of Jim Steinman

Sheridan Mouawad at Paradise Found: The Lost Songs of Jim Steinman

Tyce Green at Steinman Stripped: A Musical Tribute

Christina Bennington on Bat Out Of Hell The Musical : Original Cast Recording

Lyrics[]

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 be fly
Without pain, without fear

Give me all of your dreams
And let me go along 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 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 got is time until the end of time
Well 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

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