Waiting for the Feeling
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A beautiful ballad expressing most everyone’s desire to find someone with whom to share life.
Description
Listen to “Waiting for the Feeling” here …
Beginning in 1978, while studying music composition at Brandeis University, Billy was fortunate to be invited to score three musicals with one-day-to-become famed TV producer/writers David Crane and Marta Kauffman. The second of those musicals, “Waiting for the Feeling,” was written in 1979. It was actually a rewrite and expansion of the first of those three shows, “A Foundation of Feathers.”
This song, “Waiting for the Feeling,” with lyrics by David Crane, expresses the yearning of youth (although not necessarily only youth) for the arrival of a person to love for a lifetime. A powerful ballad, the original cast recording featured Susan Hardwicke Jackson joined by the entire ensemble, as if to say, “We’re all in this boat. Not necessarily together, but in it nonetheless.” You can listen to that early version here. Warning: I tend to play piano too quickly, which is very true here. The new recording (up above) gets the real tempo correctly:
Listen to the 1979 version here …
In 2022, Billy began a new production of the song, joined by original drummer Daniel Gilfix. Dan had been 16 years old when asked to play for the 1979 production. He was only too happy to play on this new recording more than 40 years later.
The sheet music is available here with melody, harmony, and accompaniment. There is no charge to download (although the software requires you to pay at least a dollar — someday we hope to rectify that). Our hope is that you will make a donation to The Jonah Maccabee Foundation, “turning love into action” through our Arts Fund, Jewish Life Fund, and Social Justice Fund.
lyrics
Now I’ve never known love. No, I’ve never known love. Not like the love that I’m thinking of. And I’m thinking of the feeling that I’m feeling when I’m thinking of you.
I wait for you every day, ‘though I don’t know who, or what or when, or if you are. I know you’re gonna find me, and I’m sure that so far as our love is concerned, it’s just something that was meant to be. Just wait here and you will see. Just wait.
‘Cause when the feeling that we’re waiting to find gets found, it’s gonna fill up your heart so you’ll never come down. Imagine falling in love is the only sound you’ll hear. So dear, when the love we’re waiting to find gets found, you’ll wake up one morning with my arms around you, and that’s the moment you realize I’ll never go.
Although, no one understands they say life moves on while you’re making other plans. But all my plans are you. What can I do if I don’t have the first idea of who you are? What can I do but wait?
But wait.
If both of us are feeling what we’re feeling about waiting to be found, then it only stands to reason that we’ll never know the feeling, no we’ll never know the feeling, ‘cept the one of waiting, forever contemplating the fact that I don’t know who you are.
But when the feeling that we’re waiting to find gets found, your senses will be reeling and in time you’re bound to understand that this was meant to be.
So all I can do is make my plans. And all you can do is try and understand that I am waiting too, and I’m waiting here for you. With the feeling that I’m feeling. That I don’t know what I’m doing. But I’m waiting here pursuing that falling filling feeling that I someday will have found of knowing I’m in love because my feet don’t touch the ground. Of waking up one morning to feel my arms around, with the hope of our connection, with the hope of being found.
So tell me how does all this sound to you? Please wait. Please wait.
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Additional information
| Download Format | Audio (mp3), Pno-Voc Score (pdf), Pno-Voc plus Ensemble (pdf), Duet plus Piano (pdf), Vocal Score (lead plus ensemble, pdf), Lead Sheet (pdf) |
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