‘Feels Like the First Time’ is the debut single by British-American rock band Foreigner. It was written by Mick Jones and released in 1977 from the band's self-titled debut album. It reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Jones wrote ‘Feels Like the First Time’ while putting together the band that would become Foreigner. According to Jones, "I started writing by myself. Before I knew it, I had two or three songs, and I wondered what to do with them. One of those songs was 'Feels Like the First Time.'"
Jones also said: "Feels Like the First Time" was written about a bit of a change in my life. I was coming out of a previous marriage with somebody I'd met in France. I'd gone back to England and then finally made the journey to America while I was in the band Spooky Tooth. And to me it was this challenge of really going for a new start in my life. ... to me it was signifying a new start. I'd met somebody, I got re-married and moved with her to America, and that was the song that described that experience."
‘Feels Like the First Time’ was one of four songs (along with ‘Take Me to Your Leader,’ ‘At War with the World’ and ‘Woman, Oh Woman’) that Lou Gramm sang at his audition to become the lead singer of Foreigner. These same four songs were used on the demo Foreigner used to get their recording contract.
Billboard called ‘Feels Like the First Time’ "tasteful, high-energy rock" with "a direct, happy, love lyric." Billboard called the guitars "booming" and Gramm's lead vocal "intense but controlled." Cash Box said that "the heavy rock feeling is there at bottom, but glittering backing vocals and keyboard work add the patina necessary to soothe top 40" and also commented on the "spine-tingling guitar chords" that open the song. Record World said that Foreigner "has elegantly captured the magic of power pop with their first effort.
Label – AtlanticSongwriter – Mick Jones
Producers – Gary Lyons, John Sinclair
SONG LYRICS
[Verse 1]I would climb any mountain
Sail across a stormy sea
If that's what it takes me, baby
To show you how much you mean to me
[Pre-Chorus]
And I guess it's just the woman in you
That brings out the man in me
I know I can't help myself
You're all in the world to me
[Chorus]
(It feels like the first time)
(Feels like the very first time)
(It feels like the first time)
(It feels like the very first time)
[Verse 2]
I have waited a lifetime
Spent my time so foolishly
But now that I've found you
Together we'll make history
[Refrain]
And I know that it must be the woman in you
That brings out the man in me
I know I can't help myself
You're all that my eyes can see
[Bridge]
And it feels like the first time
Like it never did before
Feels like the first time
Like we've opened up the door
Feels like the first time
Like it never will again
Never again
[Chorus]
(Feels like the first time)
It feels like the first time
(It feels like the very first time)
Very first, feels
(It feels like the first time)
Oh, it feels like the first time
(Feels like the very first time)
[Bridge]
Won't you open up the door? Yeah
[Chorus]
(Feels like the first time)
(And it feels like the very first time)
(And it feels like the first time)
(It feels like the very first time)
(And it feels like the first time)
(It feels like the very first time)