“I Want to Know What Love Is” by Foreigner (1984)
Foreigner — I Want To Know What Love Is (Official Music Video) — YouTube
A Past Journey Between the Lyrics . . .
Where is my love? I’m looking everywhere. She’s not here.
There are no clues just another day crawling forward into the fog rolling through the streets of the city. It’s cold and wet, the sun has abandoned the day and is heading into an inky velvet darkness.
Where is she? Will we ever meet again? Will it be a surprise as we come around a corner or somewhere along our trodden path that wound through our lonely city days and nights?
I want to feel your arms around me, I want to feel your heartbeat echoing mine and feel that we have found love again.
I know the emptiness of what love is without you; will love return, will you return, will we ever love again?
The mind spins in circles, jumbled thoughts and images randomly swirl about, the heart thumps erratically, and my soul searches the emptiness of your absence.
No, you won’t show me love, for love is not here, or anywhere. Love is adrift on an ebb tide. The ship has sailed. There is no return.
The fog’s wet and cold. The night chills to the bone. I begin to walk slowly toward home. Lonely blocks pass in the silent wet reflection of neon lights with a distant clanging of an empty Cable Car clicking down the tracks towards the Bay. I walk on into the night with nothing in sight.
“I know what love is . . .” It’s whispering to me within.
“I’m waiting for you. I’m waiting for you to feel me. I am the love within. I’m waiting to be called to fill your heart again. I will always be here even in times of loneliness and despair.”
“I’ll show you again that love is always within. You need to know and believe that love is always here and feel it growing as we return to our home within.”
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