John Cougar Mellencamp - I Need a Lover

According to Wikipedia:


"I Need a Lover" is a rock song written and performed by John Mellencamp under the stage name John Cougar. It first appeared on his 1978 album A Biography, which was not released in the United States. It was also included in his 1979 follow-up album John Cougar and released as a single, which became his first Top 40 hit in the US, reaching number 28 on the Billboard Billboard Hot 100 in late 1979. Allmusic reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine has described it as Mellencamp's "first good song."


The song also became an album-oriented rock radio hit for singer Pat Benatar, appearing on her 1979 debut album In the Heat of the Night.


The song is notable for its atypical long introduction of two and a half minutes.

Lyrics:




I need a lover that won't drive me crazy
I need a lover that won't drive me crazy
I need a lover that won't drive me crazy
Some girl that knows the meaning of a
Hey hit the highway


Well I've been walkin' the streets up and down
Racing through the human jungles at night
I'm so confused, my mind is indifferent
Hey I'm so weak, won't somebody shut off that light


Electricity runs through the video
And I watch it from this hole I call home
All the stony's are dancin' to the radio
And I got the world calling me up here
Tonight on the phone


I need a lover that won't drive me crazy
Some girl to thrill me and then go away
I need a lover that won't drive me crazy
Some girl that knows the meaning of a
Hey hit the highway


Well I'm not wiped out by this poolroom life I'm living
I'm gonna quit this job, go to school, or head back home
And I'm not askin' to be loved or be forgiven
I just can't face shakin' in this bedroom
One more night alone


I need a lover that won't drive me crazy
I need a lover that won't drive me crazy
I need a lover that won't drive me crazy
Some girl that knows the meaning of a
Hey hit the highway


I need a lover that won't drive me crazy
Some girl to thrill me and then go away
I need a lover that won't drive me crazy
Some girl that knows the meaning of a
Hey hit the highway
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