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I Got Your Number is the first track on Newsboys' first studio album, Read All About It, and the album's only radio single. It received little airplay, and according to Hot Hits CHR 1978-1997 it peaked at #16 on the Christian Rock chart. It later appeared in the compilation Shine: The Hits. The sleeve inserts of both albums state that the song was written by George Perdikis, John James, Peter Furler, and Sean Taylor.

Lyrics[]

I got your number
where love can be found
I got your number
where truth can be found
I asked you in one day
and you came into my life
I got your number
for the rest of my life

Chorus:
I can feel your love
flowing out to me
each day and night
I can see clearly now
I see your eyes in the starry skies
I can feel your life flowing out to me
with each breath I take
I can see clearly now
your Spirit has shown me the perfect way

I've got your number
and I'm happy to say
you set my heart on fire
with every move you make
when you walk into a room
it lights up with your grace
I got your number now
it's the hot line to your place

Chorus

Bridge:
you say you say you want
you say you say you want
you say you say you want to be free

you want you want you want
you want you want you want
you want you want you want to be free

you can you can you can
you can you can you can
you can you can you can be free

I got your number
it's written deep within my heart
you filled that emptiness
and lighted up a new part
there's much more to life
than other numbers on the wall
I got your number
it's a-burning deep within my soul

Chorus

(source: metrolyrics.com)

Trivia[]

  • The bridge incorporates part of the melody of the William Tell Overture.
  • This was the Newsboys's first radio single, the subject of the band's earliest known music video, the only song predating Not Ashamed to be included on Shine: The Hits, the only song with contributions by George Perdikis to be featured on the compilation album, and the only song which John James sang solo to be featured on the album.
  • The rhyming between "wall" and "soul" are typical of John James's Australian accent, while the words do not rhyme in most other dialects of English.




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