Released: October 15, 1968
Songwriter: Ronald Miller Orlando Murden
Producer: Henry “Hank” Cosby
For once in my life I have someone who needs me
Someone I've needed so long
For once, unafraid, I can go where life leads me
And somehow I know I'll be strong
For once I can touch what my heart used to dream of
Long before I knew
Oh, someone warm like you
Would make my dreams come true
For once in my life I won't let sorrow hurt me
Not like it's hurt me before
For once, I have something I know won't desert me
I'm not alone anymore
For once, I can say, this is mine, you can't take it
As long as I know I have love, I can make it
For once in my life, I have someone who needs me
Someone who needs me
Hey, hey, hey, hey yeah
Oh, I'm in love, baby
[Harmonica solo: Stevie Wonder]
For once in my life I won't let sorrow hurt me
Not like it's hurt me before
For once, I have something I know won't desert me
I'm not alone anymore
For once, I can say, this is mine, you can't take it
As long as I know I have love, I can make it
For once in my life, I have someone who needs me
Someone who needs me
For once in my life
Somebody that needs me
For once in my life
Someone I've needed so long
For once, unafraid, I can go where life leads me
And somehow I know I'll be strong
For once I can touch what my heart used to dream of
Long before I knew
Oh, someone warm like you
Would make my dreams come true
For once in my life I won't let sorrow hurt me
Not like it's hurt me before
For once, I have something I know won't desert me
I'm not alone anymore
For once, I can say, this is mine, you can't take it
As long as I know I have love, I can make it
For once in my life, I have someone who needs me
Someone who needs me
Hey, hey, hey, hey yeah
Oh, I'm in love, baby
[Harmonica solo: Stevie Wonder]
For once in my life I won't let sorrow hurt me
Not like it's hurt me before
For once, I have something I know won't desert me
I'm not alone anymore
For once, I can say, this is mine, you can't take it
As long as I know I have love, I can make it
For once in my life, I have someone who needs me
Someone who needs me
For once in my life
Somebody that needs me
For once in my life
Stevie Wonder: The Definitive Collection
- Superstition
- Hey Love
- Uptight (Everything’s Alright)
- I Was Made to Love Her
- Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours
- Part-Time Lover
- Overjoyed
- That Girl
- Fingertips (Part 2) (Second Pressing)
- Do I Do
- Sir Duke
- Higher Ground
- My Cherie Amour
- Master Blaster (Jammin’)
- I Wish
- You Are the Sunshine of My Life
- Boogie On Reggae Woman
- Living for the City
- I Just Called to Say I Love You
- For Once in My Life
- You Haven’t Done Nothin’
- For Once in My Life (1968)
- Stevie Wonder’s Greatest Hits Vol. 2 (1971)
- Their Very Best – Back To Back (1986)
- Stevie Wonder: The Definitive Collection (2002)
- The Complete Motown Singles | Vol. 8: 1968 (2007)
- Hitsville: The Making of Motown (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack from the Showtime Documentary Fi (2019)
- NOW That’s What I Call Gold [UK] (2021)
- As
- Superstition
- Isn’t She Lovely?
- I Just Called to Say I Love You
- Sir Duke
- I Wish
- Don’t You Worry ’Bout a Thing
- Living for the City
- Higher Ground
- Happy Birthday
- Master Blaster (Jammin’)
- Ribbon in the Sky
- Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours
- All I Do
- Overjoyed
- Faith
- Part-Time Lover
- My Cherie Amour
- Love’s in Need of Love Today
- Do I Do
- For Once in My Life
- Knocks Me Off My Feet
- Pastime Paradise
- Lately