Right Here Waiting

Album

Raw & the Cooked

Label

EMI Records

Genre

Soft Rock

Composer(s)

Richard Marx

Entered Chart

Jul 8, 1989

Peak Date

Aug 12, 1989

Released

June 29, 1989

Recorded

December 11, 1988 Studio Magic Record, Salt Lake City, Utah

Catalog #

EMI 50219

B-Side

Wait For The Sunrise

Marx wrote this song on the road as a love letter to his wife, actress Cynthia Rhodes. In a 2010 interview, Marx told the Indian newspaper The Indian Express the story behind the song: "I wrote the song for my wife Cynthia who was in South Africa shooting for a film. We were not married then and I wanted to meet her because I had not seen her for a few months. But my visa application was rejected and when I came back I wrote this song which was more of a letter from me to her. It was the fastest song I wrote, in barely 20 minutes. And this was the time when there was no Skype and Social networking so I had to ship the track to her. The song was very personal and was not intended to go public. But my friends pursued me to record it." Marx and Rhodes were married from 1989-2014. One could say that Richard Marx was born to rock - and to sell: His father wrote TV jingles for chocolate bars and peanut butter, and Richard made his professional debut singing on some of his dad's commercials. When he was 18, Marx left his hometown of Chicago and headed to LA, where another commercial-minded musician, Lionel Richie, took the young singer-songwriter under this wing. After a 5-year apprenticeship in which he sang harmonies on several of Richie's hits had some of his compositions recorded by artists such as Kenny Rogers and Chicago, Marx finally landed his own recording contract. And he was poised for stardom: Marx's self-titled 1987 debut album yielded four top-10 hits, including the #1 song "Hold On To The Nights." Repeat Offender was the follow-up album, and spawned five more hits. >> Spotify UK revealed just ahead of Valentine's Day, 2013 that this is their most popular love song, narrowly ahead of Foreigner's "I Want To Know What Love Is." The list was based on streaming figures from their 'love song' play lists. Marx originally pitched the song to Barbra Streisand. But she had a few issues with his lyrics. "She called and said, 'I love this music, this melody is gorgeous, but if I'm going to record it, I'm going to need you to rewrite the lyrics because I'm not going to be right here waiting for anybody,'" Marx recalled to CBS in a 2013 interview. This was used in a comical fashion on Chuck in the season 2 episode "Chuck Versus The Seduction." On Morgan's faulty advice, Devon plans a bizarre romantic evening for Ellie based on her favorite things from middle school, including the Repeat Offender album. This was also used in these TV shows: Family Guy ("Young Parent Trap" - 2021) The Good Place ("Everything Is Bonzer!" - 2018) Life In Pieces ("Poison Fire Teats Universe" - 2017) Raising Hope ("The Cultish Personality" - 2011) And these movies: Dina (2017) Good Deeds (2012)

Oceans apart, day after day
And I slowly go insane
I hear your voice on the line
But it doesn't stop the pain

If I see you next to never
Then how can we say forever?

Wherever you go
Whatever you do
I will be right here waiting for you
Whatever it takes
Or how my heart breaks
I will be right here waiting for you

I took for granted, all the times
That I thought would last somehow
I hear the laughter, I taste the tears
But I can't get near you now

Oh, can't you see it, baby?
You've got me going crazy

Wherever you go
Whatever you do
I will be right here waiting for you
Whatever it takes
Or how my heart breaks
I will be right here waiting for you

I wonder how we can survive
This romance
But in the end if I'm with you
I'll take the chance

Oh, can't you see it, baby?
You've got me going crazy

Wherever you go
Whatever you do
I will be right here waiting for you
Whatever it takes
Or how my heart breaks
I will be right here waiting for you
Waiting for you