Released: October 1, 1980
Songwriter: Tyrone Evans Howard Barrett John Holt
Producer: Mike Chapman
[Intro]
[Chorus]
The tide is high but I'm holdin' on
I'm gonna be your number one
I'm not the kind-a girl who gives up just like that, oh no
[Verse 1]
It's not the things you do that tease and hurt me bad
But it's the way you do the things you do to me
I'm not the kind-a girl who gives up just like that, oh no
[Chorus]
The tide is high but I'm holdin' on
I'm gonna be your number one, number one
[Pre-Chorus]
Every girl wants you to be her man
But I'll wait my dear till it's my turn
I'm not the kind-a girl who gives up just like that, oh no
[Chorus]
The tide is high but I'm holdin' on
I'm gonna be your number one, number one, number one
[Bridge]
[Pre-Chorus]
Every girl wants you to be her man
But I'll wait my dear till it's my turn
I'm not the kind-a girl who gives up just like that, oh no
[Chorus]
The tide is high but I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your number one, number one, number one
[Outro]
The tide is high but I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your number one
The tide is high but I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your number one
The tide is high but I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your number one
[Chorus]
The tide is high but I'm holdin' on
I'm gonna be your number one
I'm not the kind-a girl who gives up just like that, oh no
[Verse 1]
It's not the things you do that tease and hurt me bad
But it's the way you do the things you do to me
I'm not the kind-a girl who gives up just like that, oh no
[Chorus]
The tide is high but I'm holdin' on
I'm gonna be your number one, number one
[Pre-Chorus]
Every girl wants you to be her man
But I'll wait my dear till it's my turn
I'm not the kind-a girl who gives up just like that, oh no
[Chorus]
The tide is high but I'm holdin' on
I'm gonna be your number one, number one, number one
[Bridge]
[Pre-Chorus]
Every girl wants you to be her man
But I'll wait my dear till it's my turn
I'm not the kind-a girl who gives up just like that, oh no
[Chorus]
The tide is high but I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your number one, number one, number one
[Outro]
The tide is high but I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your number one
The tide is high but I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your number one
The tide is high but I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your number one
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- Autoamerican (1980)
- The Best of Blondie (1981)
- Sessions® Presents The Greatest Hits Album (1982)
- The Platinum Collection (1994)
- Muriel’s Wedding (Music From and Inspired by the Film) (1995)
- Greatest Hits (2002)
- Jentevorspiel - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (2004)
- Pure 80s (2007)
- Greatest Hits Deluxe Redux (2014)
- NOW 100 Hits Summer [UK] (2020)
Blondie popular songs
- Heart of Glass
- Call Me
- One Way or Another
- Rapture
- The Tide Is High
- Dreaming
- Maria
- Atomic
- Long Time
- Hanging on the Telephone
- Sunday Girl
- X Offender
- Picture This
- Rip Her to Shreds
- Denis
- I Feel Love
- Once I Had a Love (AKA The Disco Song)
- Fun
- 11:59
- Fragments
- Fade Away and Radiate
- Pretty Baby
- In the Flesh
- Little Girl Lies