I Want To Know What Love Is
Mariah Carey
![](https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/64s/60608156f6469bb42454d1d0456b4a87.png)
Album:
Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel
Most played on:
Genres:
Moods:
Languages:
Wiki:
"I Want To Know What Love Is" was covered by American singer Mariah Carey and released as the second single from her twelfth studio album, Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel (2009). The single, produced by Carey, C. "Tricky" Stewart and James "Big Jim" Wright, was sent to European radio stations on August 28 and was released in the United States for digital download September 15, 2009. In Brazil, the song stayed at #1 for a record 27 weeks! One of the reasons for the song's radio success was its frequent inclusion in a popular soap opera, "Viver a Vida". According to Crowley Broadcast Analysis, Carey's version has broken the record for longest Brazilian Hot 100 Airplay Chart run at 27 consecutive weeks. The song peaked on the U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary Tracks chart at #10, bringing Carey's total number of Top Ten hits on that chart to 20, one short of Celine Dion's record. She has since surpassed this and is now tied with Celine Dion after her single Oh Santa! reached number one in 2010. However, on the U.S. Hot 100, it peaked at #60. On the UK Singles Chart, the song debuted at #19 on the week ending November 29, becoming her highest debuting and peaking song since 2008's "Touch My Body", which peaked at #5. The song debuted at #6 in France, selling 1,910 physical CDs in its first week, and 39,720 copies of all formats there as of late 2009 and it became the best charting version of this song there. It also reached #3 in Japan.
Lyrics:
[Verse 1] 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, hey [Pre-Chorus] In my life, there's been heartache and pain I don't know if I can face it again Can't stop now, I've travelled so far To change this lonely life [Chorus] I wanna know what love is I want you to show me I wanna feel what love is And I know you can show me [Verse 2] I'm gonna take a little time (Take a little time) A little time to look around me (Ooh) I've got nowhere left to hide (Nowhere left to hide) It looks like love has finally found me (Ohh) [Pre-Chorus] In my life, there's been heartache and pain I don't know if I can face it again Can't stop now, I've travelled so far To change this lonely life [Chorus] I wanna know what love is I want you to show me I wanna feel what love is (Feel what love is) And I know you can show me Show me, I wanna know I wanna know what love is (Ohh, I wanna know) I want you to show me (And I'm feeling so much love) I wanna feel what love is (I wanna feel) And I know you can show me, hey, yeah I wanna know what love is Let's talk about love I want you to show me