I Believe In A Thing Called Love

I Believe in a Thing Called Love is a song by the English rock band The Darkness. The song reached #2 in the UK Singles Charts, beaten by the Black Eyed Peas' Where Is the Love?. Lead singer Justin Hawkins sings most of the song in a falsetto. This was one of ten songs on their debut album, Permission to Land, which was released in July 2003 on the Must Destroy record label and Atlantic Records. In March 2005, Q magazine placed "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" at number 47 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks. It is also placed 497 on The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born on Blender magazine. The video and original single version were played up a semitone to the album version. The song was also featured on The Darkness's single Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End), a live version from Knebworth House in Knebworth, Hertfordshire in 2003. The song was named the 94th best hard rock song of all time by VH1 (based on fan voting).

[Verse 1] Can't explain all the feelings that you're making me feel My heart's in overdrive and you're behind the steering wheel [Pre-Chorus] Touching you Touching me Touching you, God, you're touching me [Chorus] I believe in a thing called love Just listen to the rhythm of my heart There's a chance we could make it, now We'll be rocking 'til the sun goes down I believe in a thing called love Ooh Huh [Solo 1] [Verse 2] I wanna kiss you every minute, every hour, every day You got me in a spin, but everythin' is a-okay [Pre-Chorus] Touching you Touching me Touching you, God, you're touching me [Chorus] I believe in a thing called love Just listen to the rhythm of my heart There's a chance we could make it, now We'll be rocking 'til the sun goes down I believe in a thing called love Ooh Guitar! [Solo 2] [Pre-Chorus] Touching you Touching me Touching you, God, you're touching me Oh [Chorus] I believe in a thing called love Just listen to the rhythm of my heart There's a chance we could make it, now We'll be rocking 'til the sun goes down I believe in a thing called love Oh!