I Need You Tonight

Album: Lights Out (1984)
Charted: 36
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  • When the music stops
    I walk you to your door
    And we say goodnight
    Like a thousand times before

    This is the night (night)
    I just can't walk away, oh
    This is the night
    I need you even more

    Why should we wait 'til tomorrow? oh, oh
    Why should we wait 'til tomorrow? oh, oh
    I can't wait til' tomorrow oh
    I need you tonight

    I drive away, but you're still on my mind
    It's gettin' so hard leavin' you behind
    This is the night I just want you to know, oh
    This is the night I just can't let you go

    Why should we wait 'til tomorrow? oh, oh
    Why should we wait 'til tomorrow? oh, oh
    I can't wait til' tomorrow oh
    I need you tonight

    Yeah!

    Oh!

    Why should we wait 'til tomorrow? oh, oh
    Why should we wait 'til tomorrow? oh, oh
    I can't wait til' tomorrow oh
    I need you tonight

    And I need you tonight
    'Cause I need you tonight Writer/s: PETER S. BLISS, PETER WOLF
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn this day in 1984 {November 18th} Peter Wolf's "I Need You Tonight" peaked at #36 {for 1 week} on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart, and it spent eleven weeks on the Top 100...
    It reached #22 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Songs chart...
    Besides "I Need You Tonight", The Bronx, NY native, as a solo artist, had five other Top 100 records: "Lights Out" {#12 in 1984}, "Oo-Ee-Diddley-Bop!" {#61 in 1985}, "Come As You Are" {#15 in 1987}, "Can't Get Started" {#75 in 1987}, and "99 Worlds" {#77 in 1990)...
    As lead vocalist of the J. Geils Band he charted eighteen times, two made the Top 10 with one reaching #1, "Centerfold", for 6 weeks in 1982, and the band's other Top 10 record was "Freeze-Frame", it peaked at #4 {for 4 weeks} in 1982...
    Peter Wolf, born Peter Blankfield, will celebrate his 74th birthday come next March 7th, 2020...
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