Songwriter: Mick Jones (Foreigner) Lou Gramm
Producer: Mick Jones (Foreigner) Robert John Lange
[Verse 1]
So long
I've been lookin' 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
[Pre-Chorus]
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 comin' on too strong?
This heart of mine has been hurt before
This time I want to be sure
[Chorus]
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
[Verse 2]
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
[Pre-Chorus]
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 no where on earth that I'd rather be
Than holding you tenderly
[Chorus]
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
[Outro]
I've been waiting
Waiting for you
Ooh-ooh
I've been waiting
I've been waiting, yeah
Won't you come into my life?
My life?
So long
I've been lookin' 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
[Pre-Chorus]
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 comin' on too strong?
This heart of mine has been hurt before
This time I want to be sure
[Chorus]
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
[Verse 2]
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
[Pre-Chorus]
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 no where on earth that I'd rather be
Than holding you tenderly
[Chorus]
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
[Outro]
I've been waiting
Waiting for you
Ooh-ooh
I've been waiting
I've been waiting, yeah
Won't you come into my life?
My life?
The Definitive Collection
- Waiting for a Girl Like You
- Head Games
- Urgent
- That Was Yesterday
- Lowdown and Dirty
- I Want to Know What Love Is
- Reaction to Action
- Down on Love
- Heart Turns to Stone
- Say You Will
- I Don’t Want to Live Without You
- Just Between You and Me
- Midnight Blue
- Soul Doctor
- Break It Up
- Women
- Cold as Ice
- Juke Box Hero
- Rev on the Red Line
- Double Vision
- Dirty White Boy
- Feels Like the First Time
- Starrider
- Headknocker
- Hot Blooded
- Long, Long Way from Home
- Blue Morning, Blue Day
- At War with the World
- I Have Waited So Long
- Just Wanna Hold
- Rock Dreams - Die Rockstars Mit Ihren Sanften Superhits
- WEA in Zum Zum Vol. 2
- The Best of Soft Rock: Ride Like the Wind
- 4 (1981)
- Waiting for a Girl Like You - Single (1981)
- Woman in Love Volume 3 (1982)
- Present Hits (1982)
- O Homem Proibido - Internacional (1982)
- Action Trax 2 (1982)
- Hit Wave ’82 (1982)
- Hit Flyer 3 (1982)
- The Original Radioactive (1982)
- The Very Best... and Beyond (1992)
- Rough Diamonds #1 (1999)
- Snow Day (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2000)
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Official Soundtrack Box Set (2002)
- Steve Wright’s All New Sunday Love Songs (2005)
- The Definitive Collection (2006)
- Can’t Slow Down (2009)
- While We’re Young: Motion Picture Soundtrack (2015)
- Love Songs (2017)
- 40 (2017)
- I Want to Know What Love Is
- Juke Box Hero
- Waiting for a Girl Like You
- Cold as Ice
- Feels Like the First Time
- Urgent
- Hot Blooded
- Double Vision
- Head Games
- I Don’t Want to Live Without You
- Say You Will
- Dirty White Boy
- That Was Yesterday
- Rev on the Red Line
- Starrider (Live at the Bang Your Head Festival, Balingen, Germany, 2006)
- Not Fade Away
- Love Maker
- Soul Doctor
- Hot Blooded (Live)
- With Heaven on Our Side (radio edit)
- Ready Or Not
- Big Dog
- That’s All Right
- Prisoner of Love