Foreigner – Waiting For A Girl Like You

“Waiting for a Girl Like You” Single by Foreigner from the album 4, released on October 2, 1981 in US.

It has become one of the band’s most successful songs worldwide, peaking at number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, number 1 on Billboard’s Rock Tracks chart, and number 1 on the Radio & Records (R&R) Top 40/CHR chart. On both the Billboard and R&R Adult Contemporary chart, the song reached number 5. The song peaked at number 8 on the UK Singles Chart.

Foreigner has always stayed away from any “message songs,” so you won’t get political or social commentary from them, but you will get songs dealing with relationships and emotions. Foreigner guitarist Mick Jones, who wrote the song with lead singer Lou Gramm, told us, “There’s a song called ‘Waiting For A Girl Like You,’ which I literally had no control over, it just came out. I had no idea what it meant, but it got to the point where I couldn’t even be in the studio when we were recording it sometimes, it left such a deep impression on me. But it ended up being a song that brought a lot of people together. I hear these days that it’s a song that a lot of people play at their weddings. It’s the kind of song that the pen does the writing, and you don’t even know where it came from. But I feel that it’s stuff that’s floating around at times and you have to grasp it – it’s kind of flying around in the air, and you just have to be open enough to let that flow through you. Sometimes it’s sort of mystical where these ideas come from. Sometimes you have an idea about a song, or you have a title that you base the rest of the song on, but sometimes it comes just literally from an unknown area. You’ll be thinking about something completely different, and suddenly you get that inspiration. I usually know when it’s happening, and I just let it flow and try not to interfere with it – just try and deliver what that thought, those feelings, mean.”

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Single lansat in Octombrie 1981, cu fata B “I’m Gonna Win”, de pe albumul “4”. Compozitie Mick Jones, Lou Gramm.

Un fapt ironic despre acest single: nu a ajuns pe locul #1 la Billboard. Dar, a stat 10 saptamini pe locul 2, in umbra la Physical – Olivia Newton-John, si dupa aceea “I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do)” – Daryl Hall and John Oates, a trecut pe locul 1, Foreigner pastrind pozitia a 2-a.

Au participat la inregistrari:
Foreigner
Lou Gramm – lead vocals
Mick Jones – backing vocals, keyboards
Rick Wills – bass guitar, backing vocals
Dennis Elliott – drums, backing vocals
Additional personnel
Thomas Dolby – main synthesizers
Bob Mayo – keyboard textures
Ian Lloyd – backing vocals
Robert John “Mutt” Lange – backing vocals

Lyrics:
So long, I’ve been looking too hard, I’ve waiting too long
Sometimes I don’t know what I will find
I only know it’s a matter of time
When you love someone… When you love someone…
It feels so right, so warm and true, I need to know if you feel it too
(Aaah-aaah) maybe I’m wrong
(Aaah-aaah) won’t you tell me if I’m coming on too strong?
(Aaah-aaah) this heart of mine has been hurt before
(Aaah-aaah) this time I wanna be sure
I’ve been waiting, for a girl like you
(Ooh-ooh-ooh) to come into my life (life)
I’ve been waiting, for a girl like you
(Waiting for a girl) and a love that will survive

I’ve been waiting (I’ve been waiting) for someone new
(New) To make me feel alive, ah-ah
Yeah, waiting for a girl like you (waiting for a girl) to come into my life
(Aaah-aaah… Aaah-aaah…)

You’re so good, when we make love it’s understood
It’s more than a touch or a word we say
Only in dreams could it be this way
When you love someone… Yeah, really love someone…
(Aaah-aaah) now I know it’s right
(Aaah-aaah) from the moment I wake up till deep in the night
(Aaah-aaah) there’s no where on earth that I’d rather be
(Aaah-aaah) than holding you, tenderly

I’ve been waiting, for a girl like you
(Ooh-ooh-ooh) To come into my life (life)
I’ve been waiting, for a girl like you
(Waiting for a girl) and a love that will survive
I’ve been waiting (I’ve been waiting) for someone new
(New) To make me feel alive, ah-ah
Yeah, waiting (waiting) for a girl like you
(Waiting for a girl) to come into my life

Oooh-oooh, oooh-oooh, I’ve been waiting
Aaah-aaah, (waiting for you) oooh-oooh, oooh
(Aaah-aaah) oooh-oooh, I’ve been waiting
(Waiting) I’ve been waiting, yeah
I’ve been waiting for a girl like you, I’ve been waiting
Won’t you come into my life? (Life?) My life?
(It’s been so long) I’ve been waiting for a girl like you
I’ve been waiting, (I’ve been waiting) oh-oh

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