Foreigner - I Want To Know What Love Is

I Want To Know What Love Is by Foreigner, Music Video, Lyrics and Review

“I Want to Know What Love Is” is a power ballad recorded by the British-American rock band Foreigner. This song is, alongside “Urgent” and “Waiting for a Girl Like You”, one of the band’s best known songs.
In 2004 it was voted #476 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.

Foreigner - I Want To Know What Love Is Lyrics

I gotta take a little time
A little time to think things over
I better read between the lines
In case I need it when I’m older

Now this mountain I must climb
Feels like a world upon my shoulders
I through the clouds I see love shine
It keeps me warm as life grows colder

In my life theres been heartache and pain
I don’t know if I can face it again
Cant stop now, Ive traveled so far
To change this lonely life

I wanna know what love is
I want you to show me
I wanna feel what love is
I know you can show me

I’m gonna take a little time
A little time to look around me
Ive got nowhere left to hide
It looks like love has finally found me

In my life theres been heartache and pain
I don’t know if I can face it again
I cant stop now, Ive traveled so far
To change this lonely life

I wanna know what love is
I want you to show me
I wanna feel what love is
I know you can show me

I wanna know what love is
I want you to show me
And I wanna feel, I want to feel what love is
And I know, I know you can show me

Lets talk about love
I wanna know what love is, the love that you feel inside
I want you to show me, and Im feeling so much love
I wanna feel what love is, no, you just cannot hide
I know you can show me, yeah

I wanna know what love is, lets talk about love
I want you to show me, I wanna feel it too
I wanna feel what love is, I want to feel it too
And I know and I know, I know you can show me
Show me love is real, yeah
I wanna know what love is…

Foreigner - I Want To Know What Love Is Song Info and Review

Released November/December 1984
Genre Power ballad
Length 05:05
Label Atlantic Records
Writer Mick Jones
Producer Mick Jones, Alex Sadkin
Certification Gold

Written by Mick Jones and produced by him and Alex Sadkin, it was the first single released from the album Agent Provocateur (1984). The song features backing vocals from the New Jersey Mass Choir (of the GMWA), Dreamgirls star Jennifer Holliday, and the Thompson Twins.

It reached number one in the UK Singles Chart on January 13, 1985, and stayed there for three weeks. It reached the top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 on February 2, 1985, where it stayed for two weeks. It was Foreigner’s only chart-topper in both countries.

In 2006 this song was included on VH1’s program “Top 100 Songs of the 80’s”.

In 2007, an upcoming game, SingStar ’80s included this song.

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