When I’m With You Lyrics
Like I need you
And I never lived for nobody
But I live for you
Oooh, babe
Lost in love is what
I feel when I'm with you
Maybe it's the way you touch me
With the warmth of a sun
Maybe it's the way you smile
I come all undone
Oooh, babe
Lost in love is what
I feel when I'm with you
Baby, ooh, I get chills
When I'm with you, oh
Oh, baby, my world stands still
When I'm with you
When I'm with you
I never cared for nobody
Like I care for you
And I never wanted
To share the things I want to share with you
Lost in love is what
I feel when I'm with you
Baby, ooh
I get chills
When I'm with you, oh...
Oh, baby, my world stands still
When I'm with you
When I'm with you
Whoa, oh, oh.....
Baby, ooh
I get chills
When I'm with you, oh...
Oh, baby, my world stands still
When I'm with you
When I'm with you
When I'm with you
About
“When I’m With You” was written by Sherrif’s keyboardist Arnold Lanni after meeting & falling in love with Valeri Brown.
The song first charted on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1983, peaking at #61. Due to the low performance of the song, Sheriff later disbanded in 1985.
In 1988, Brian Phillips (a program director at KDWB in Minneapolis) began playing the song and other national radio stations followed suit as well and because of it, Capitol Records re-released the song as a single.
The re-release of “When I’m With You” topped the Billboard Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary for a week in February of 1989.
Q&A
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Arnold Lanni wrote the song after meeting & falling in love with Valeri Brown:
I sat down, put my coffee on the piano, tinkled some ivories, and four minutes later 80 percent of the song was written. On Valentine’s Day I played the song for Valeri and said, “I don’t have anything, this is all I can give you right now. It’s yours. Valeri loved the song; two years later she married me.
