Foreigner - Waiting For A Girl Like You Lyrics

Foreigner Lyrics

"Waiting For A Girl Like You"

So long
I've been looking too hard
I've been 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

Maybe I'm wrong
Won't you tell me if I'm coming on too strong
This heart of mine has been hurt before
This time I wanna be sure

I've been waiting for a girl like you
To come into my life
I've been waiting for a girl like you
A love that will survive
I've been waiting for someone new
To make me feel alive
Yeah, waiting for a girl like you
To come into my life

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

Now I know it's right
From the moment I wake up 'til deep in the night
There's nowhere on earth that I'd rather be
Than holding you tenderly

I've been waiting for a girl like you
To come into my life
I've been waiting for a girl like you
A love that will survive
I've been waiting for someone new
To make me feel alive
Yeah, waiting for a girl like you
To come into my life

I've been waiting
Waiting for you
I've been 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?

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Thanks to Steve Mita for correcting these lyrics.

Writer(s): Michael Jones, Louis Grammatico

The second single from the album, it is a soft love song, a power ballad, in contrast with their previous works which were mid- to upper-tempo rock songs.

The synthesizer theme on this song was performed by Thomas Dolby.

This track has become one of the band's most-successful songs reaching number two on the US Billboard Hot 100, number 1 on Billboard's Rock Tracks chart and number 5 on Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. On the UK Singles Chart, the song climbed to number 8.

The song was the Foreigner's biggest hit until "I Want to Know What Love Is" topped charts in 1985.