Album: Reel Life (1988)

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• I hear your name whispered on the wind
  It's a sound that makes me cry
  I hear a song blow again and again
  Through my mind and I don't know why
  I wish I didn't feel so strong about you
  Like happiness and love revolve around you
  
  Trying to catch your heart
  Is like trying to catch a star
  So many people love you, baby
  That must be what you are
  
  Waiting for a star to fall
  And carry your heart into my arms
  That's where you belong
  In my arms baby, yeah
  
  Waiting for a star to fall
  And carry your heart into my arms
  That's where you belong
  In my arms baby, yeah
  
  I've learned to feel what I cannot see
  But with you I lose that vision
  I don't know how to dream your dream
  So I'm all caught up in the superstition
  I want to reach out and pull you to me
  Who says I should let a wild one go free?
  
  Trying to catch your heart
  Is like trying to catch a star
  I can't love you this much, baby
  And love you from this far
  
  Waiting for a star to fall
  And carry your heart into my arms
  That's where you belong
  In my arms baby, yeah (yeah)
  
  Waiting for a star to fall
  And carry your heart into my arms
  That's where you belong
  In my arms baby, yeah
  
  Waiting (however long)
  I don't like waiting (I'll wait for you)
  It's so hard waiting (don't be too long)
  Seems like waiting (waiting)
  Makes me love you even more
  
  Waiting for a star to fall
  And carry your heart into my arms
  That's where you belong
  In my arms baby, yeah (yeah)
  
  Waiting for a star to fall
  Carry your heart (carry your heart) into my arms
  That's where you belong
  In my arms baby, yeah (yeah)
  
  Waiting for a star to fall
  Carry your heart into my arms
  That's where you belong
  In my arms baby, yeah (yeah)
  
  (Oh) Waiting for a star to fall
  Carry your heart into my arms
  That's where you belong
  In my arms baby, yeah (ohh) Writer/s: George Robert Merrill, Shannon Rubicam
  Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 24

• Niels from The NetherlandsI adore this song… such exuberant and energetic vibes. I think it can appeal to any musical preference while it’s NOT generic itself. To me it has progressive rock elements with of course pop and a slice of gospel and… I’ll stop trying to describe this marvel.
• Adam from 'bama"To dream the impossible dream...
  To try when your arms are too weary
  To reach the unreachable star."
• Seamus from Bushey, Hertfordshire, England'Waiting for a star to fall' is one of my favourite songs. Every time I hear this I think of love, love past and love now. I feel hope and I feel hopeful. A truly wonderful song.
• Seventh Mist from 7th HeavenOne of my all-time favorites. How many other mainstream songs sound as uplifting as this one? It's not a gospel song, of course, but it brings plenty of them to my mind whenever I hear it.
• Bdc from PerthThis song not only has the power to take me back to my glory days in the late eighties but it also has the best hook ever - powerful, uplifting, but deeply moving at the same time.
• Kermit from Bath UkIf you're in THAT place be it 16 or 60. As someone else wrote it's for that person who will be forever out of your arms however much the opposite is wanted.
  The ultimate limerence song.
• Tania from Brisbane, AustraliaThis is a truly timeless song, and no matter how many times a day it repeats in my iTunes playlist, I never tire of it!
• Steve from Denver,coI had a high school sweetheart..her name way Raylene....I went off to college in California..to pursue my dream of pro baseball...she stayed in Colorado and got married and had a family....now 45 years later...I am back in Colorado ...and we have re-connected as "friends"...every time I hear this song...it only makes me want her more now...and every word in this song ...makes me depressed...because this is how I feel more than ever...but yet...since I truly broke her heart when we were younger...and much as I tell her I love her more than ever...this will never happen...and I am truly "WAITING FOR A STAR TO FALL'....and she comes back into my arms...which probably will never happen....I WILL STILL BE WAITING...
• Hucklecat from New Jersey UsaI recall think that Shannon R. was so very pretty, and I kind of felt bad for George because - at least in the lyrics - she seemed to be just beyond his grasp. But it is a great song with a perfect hook that takes the audience along for the ride.
• Shandroise De Laeken from Davao City, PhilippinesAugust 17, 2015 - The radio station here which I'm a fan of has a segment "Most Requested Song of the Week" and this is the most requested song for the week of August 10-16, 2015. It's being played 4 times a day everyday last week. Everytime it came up, I didn't feel something like I'm sick of it. Maybe it's because I can relate to this song well! Hahaha as I have a crush who is a big star in Korean Pop music world so he's that star I'm waiting for to fall! I agree with Jason of Dublin, Ireland about the line "Trying to catch your heart is like trying to catch a star". Sooo true (funny how it seems, a-ha-ha-ha!) I love this song as many people can relate to it! Thank God for George and Shannon... and hey!!! George commented here! That Geo-Seattle, Washington down there, 2nd comment from the bottom!
• Cletus from Louisville, KyShannon: "It's a lament for what appears to be unattainable to you". My unattainable star was an Irish girl I met in the late 80's- Pamela. This song captured that feeling perfectly! Unfortunately, she ended up actually being unattainable in the end. So this song is bittersweet for me. But I've listened to it, and the Reel Life album literally hundreds of times. 25 years on, it still reminds me of her. I'm very thankful that George and Shannon recorded it themselves. It is perfect!
• John from Wolves, United KingdomI love this song it's fab....The words are great as is the video....sounds good 2 day as it did many years ago....
• Esskayess from Dallas, TxBeautiful song. It exudes such joy that I still love hearing it today, even though I will always link it with a love of mine who called it "our song" shortly before deciding she'd rather wait for someone else's star to fall.
• Joann from Portsmouth, VaGood song, being able to go thru list of songs alphabetically brings back the time of watching MTV in the 80's when it was MTV so glad I found this site, thank you. Listen to various songs ev ery morning now before work.
• Jim from Brunswick, MeI LOVE this song! It hit its peak at #5 on the Hot 100 during December 1988. Uplifting, postive & hopeful are the 3 words that best describe this tune. This is one of the finer songs to come from a Seattle based artist. Too bad they were a 1 hit wonder (Oh Girl just scraped into the top 40 in 1985). It's also sad they're no longer a couple. Seeing the video on YouTube was a hoot. They seem to be having a good time (& wearing typical late '80's garb).
• Jason from Melbourne, AustraliaI love this song. It bring me back to the days when i use to live in Poole st Burwood in 89.
  Even time i hear it, it reminds me of a girl i liked who use to lived in the same street
  The line i enjoy the most in this song is:
  " LIKE HAPPINESS AND LOVE REVOLVE AROUND YOU "
  Its such a happy, powerful, uPlifting song.
  It makes me smile :-)
• Jason from Dublin, Irelandi love the part 'trying to catch your heart is like trying to catch a star' best bit of the song. my opinion of course
• John from Manchester, EnglandHave to say,this is a really beautiful song. The lyrics are very strong and as already said the song gives hope for the future to those of us who are single.
• Robert from Seattle, WaI have been listening to pop music since the early 60's. I have heard every top 40 hit since then and zillions of others. But there is something so special about this song (Waiting for a Star to Fall) that I can't explain. Perhaps, Kathy, from Toowoomba, Australia (above) says it best..."energising and uplifting". I never tire of it..none that I have ever heard has the same effect (even lyrics aside)..and still to this day stop what I'm doing whenever I hear it...makes me smile. Thanks so much to George and Shannon..unbelievably gifted song writers!!!
  
• Kathy from Toowoomba, AustraliaAs a child of the 80s, I have to say that I absolutely LOVE this song. It is so energising and uplifting......always gives me a bolt of energy and enthusiasm.... Congrats on your success and hopefully much more to come!
• Mjn Seifer from Not Listed For Personal Reason, England(Sighs) "The song that sporned a million naff, cover versions..."
  
  Original is excelent. The worst cover is the "One Line Cover" that just says "In your arms baby yes" because the way it's eddited makes it sound like "And my arse say's yes". I wonder if the orginal singers have heard that cover...
• Darren from Auckland, New ZealandI'm pretty much a kid of the late 90s and only discovered this song in late March 2005 after downing 6 tequilas and whislt on the dancefloor at a bar at the Viaduct in Auckland... infectious song and one of the best pure melodic pop songs i've heard. I started listening to the 1988 version later that year and I still think the same of the song as when I first listened to it. The lovely part to this is one evening I hear my mum singing along to the Ministry of sound version I was playing on my computer- and after much wondering as to why she knows this song she tourns arund and says "of course honey- this was the song that used to play on pop hits everytime I tucked you into bed..." I was 5 then and I just find that it's so amazing how I re-discovered this song in a whole new way. How endearing. It was and is a part of my childhood and it makes me feel warm in my heart and generates a feeling of hope for the future...
• Geo from Seattle, Waa word on the above comment from Jani-thanks first off! Whitney never heard the song, as far as we know. Clive Davis from her record company Arista thought it wasn't quite right for Whitney. We love and are thankful to Whitney Houston always for that lovely gift of a voice and bright personality that she shared with the world on our songs.
  George, BoyMeetsGirl Music
• Jani from Auckland, New ZealandI heard a story that Boy Meets Girl is a professional songwriting team, and the song in its original form was written for Whitney Houston.
  She didn't like it and told them so in no uncertain terms. So they changed the lyrics to "have a go" at her, and recorded it themselves. The "Star" in the title refers to Whitney.

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