Chords for Legendary Voice of Foreigner Lou Gramm Discovers What Love Is
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[Am]
On the [E] strength of hits like Jukebox Hero, Hot Blooded, and I Want to Know What Love Is,
Foreigner sold over 50 million albums worldwide with Lou Graham behind the [Db] mic.
[B] Today, 30 [Gb] years later, Lou is still performing after battling a brain tumor that almost [Dbm] killed it.
I'm left taking about 15 or 16 prescribed medications twice a day.
Lou [A] enjoys remembering the late [Dbm]
1970s when Foreigner was rock and roll royalty.
It's pretty staggering and it happened extremely fast.
It seems like we would come out of the studio, right into a tour,
[Abm] and the last two weeks of the tour we would be putting ideas [A] together for the next album.
One song seemed to stand out and kind of blew the world open, I think, at the time.
I Want to Know What Love Is.
The New Jersey Mass Choir sang, I want to know what love is.
And we were in the control room and I can remember the short hair on the back of my neck standing up.
I was like, dear me.
[Em] But after 15 years of drugs, sex, and rock and roll, Lou had a revelation.
[Am] A night after we had played Madison Square Garden,
and [F]
I really believed [Am] that the lifestyle had the better of me and [F] that I couldn't walk away from it.
[C] Now that I needed it more than [Gm] it needed me.
[Bb] And I prayed for the [F] strength and the [Dm] sense to break the chain.
The next morning, Lou checked himself into rehab and was soon praying the sinner's prayer [Gm] with a staff pastor.
[Dm] This pastor prays with you, you pray, Jesus Christ, come into my life, one of those kinds of prayers.
[G]
It's a conversion [Gm] prayer.
Yes.
Did you tell your bandmates?
Not right away.
I waited until the next tour and we were on the bus and the cocaine lines came out, the joints came out.
[C] And I [Dm] let them know that I [Gm] wouldn't be doing that with them and [C] I wouldn't be doing it anymore.
And their response was?
[Dm]
What in the world's wrong with [Gm] you?
Lou remained with Foreigner for [Cm] years, finally parting [Eb] ways in 2003.
[G] Around that time, while recovering from [Gm] brain surgery, he remembers feeling called to [Eb] sing a new song.
After my operation, which, you know, there was a very good chance that I might have died on that [Cm] operating table,
[G] that [Eb] I [Gm] had thought long and hard about making a Christian rock album.
The Lou Graham [E] Band.
Yes, it is.
With the Graham [C] Brothers.
[G] You better believe it.
[C] Singing this [G] album [D] is [C] Jesus.
Yes, it is.
God.
[G] And it rocks hard.
[C] [D] For all intents and purposes, [C] Lou Graham [G] is back.
Yes.
I think about [D] the [G] years wasted before I knew the Lord.
And [D] I guess [C] everybody has to go through [G] something different.
I don't mourn those [C] years because [D] I am where I am now and [C] that's the best news [G] ever.
On the [E] strength of hits like Jukebox Hero, Hot Blooded, and I Want to Know What Love Is,
Foreigner sold over 50 million albums worldwide with Lou Graham behind the [Db] mic.
[B] Today, 30 [Gb] years later, Lou is still performing after battling a brain tumor that almost [Dbm] killed it.
I'm left taking about 15 or 16 prescribed medications twice a day.
Lou [A] enjoys remembering the late [Dbm]
1970s when Foreigner was rock and roll royalty.
It's pretty staggering and it happened extremely fast.
It seems like we would come out of the studio, right into a tour,
[Abm] and the last two weeks of the tour we would be putting ideas [A] together for the next album.
One song seemed to stand out and kind of blew the world open, I think, at the time.
I Want to Know What Love Is.
The New Jersey Mass Choir sang, I want to know what love is.
And we were in the control room and I can remember the short hair on the back of my neck standing up.
I was like, dear me.
[Em] But after 15 years of drugs, sex, and rock and roll, Lou had a revelation.
[Am] A night after we had played Madison Square Garden,
and [F]
I really believed [Am] that the lifestyle had the better of me and [F] that I couldn't walk away from it.
[C] Now that I needed it more than [Gm] it needed me.
[Bb] And I prayed for the [F] strength and the [Dm] sense to break the chain.
The next morning, Lou checked himself into rehab and was soon praying the sinner's prayer [Gm] with a staff pastor.
[Dm] This pastor prays with you, you pray, Jesus Christ, come into my life, one of those kinds of prayers.
[G]
It's a conversion [Gm] prayer.
Yes.
Did you tell your bandmates?
Not right away.
I waited until the next tour and we were on the bus and the cocaine lines came out, the joints came out.
[C] And I [Dm] let them know that I [Gm] wouldn't be doing that with them and [C] I wouldn't be doing it anymore.
And their response was?
[Dm]
What in the world's wrong with [Gm] you?
Lou remained with Foreigner for [Cm] years, finally parting [Eb] ways in 2003.
[G] Around that time, while recovering from [Gm] brain surgery, he remembers feeling called to [Eb] sing a new song.
After my operation, which, you know, there was a very good chance that I might have died on that [Cm] operating table,
[G] that [Eb] I [Gm] had thought long and hard about making a Christian rock album.
The Lou Graham [E] Band.
Yes, it is.
With the Graham [C] Brothers.
[G] You better believe it.
[C] Singing this [G] album [D] is [C] Jesus.
Yes, it is.
God.
[G] And it rocks hard.
[C] [D] For all intents and purposes, [C] Lou Graham [G] is back.
Yes.
I think about [D] the [G] years wasted before I knew the Lord.
And [D] I guess [C] everybody has to go through [G] something different.
I don't mourn those [C] years because [D] I am where I am now and [C] that's the best news [G] ever.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ On the [E] strength of hits like _ Jukebox Hero, Hot Blooded, and I Want to Know What Love Is,
Foreigner sold over 50 million albums worldwide with Lou Graham behind the [Db] mic.
[B] Today, 30 [Gb] years later, Lou is still performing _ after battling a brain tumor that almost [Dbm] killed it.
I'm left taking about _ 15 or 16 _ _ prescribed medications twice a day.
Lou [A] enjoys remembering the late [Dbm] _
1970s when Foreigner was rock and roll royalty.
It's pretty staggering and it happened _ _ extremely fast.
It seems like we would _ come out of the studio, right into a tour,
[Abm] and the last two weeks of the tour we would be putting ideas [A] together for the next album.
One song seemed to stand out and kind of _ blew the world open, I think, at the time.
_ I Want to Know What Love Is.
The New Jersey Mass Choir sang, I want to know what love is.
And we were in the control room and I can remember the short hair on the back of my neck standing up.
I was like, dear me.
[Em] _ But after 15 years of drugs, sex, and rock and roll, Lou had a revelation.
[Am] A night after we had played Madison Square Garden,
and _ [F] _ _
I really believed _ [Am] that the lifestyle had the better of me and [F] that I couldn't walk away from it.
_ [C] _ Now that I needed it _ _ more than [Gm] it needed me. _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ And I prayed for the [F] strength and the [Dm] sense to _ break the chain.
The next morning, Lou checked himself into rehab and was soon praying the sinner's prayer [Gm] with a staff pastor.
[Dm] This pastor prays with you, you pray, _ _ Jesus _ Christ, come into my life, one of those kinds of prayers.
[G]
It's a conversion [Gm] prayer.
Yes.
Did you tell your bandmates?
_ Not right away. _
I waited until the next tour and we were on the bus and the cocaine lines came out, the joints came out.
[C] And _ _ _ _ I _ [Dm] let them know that I [Gm] wouldn't be doing that with them and [C] I wouldn't be doing it anymore. _ _
And their response was?
[Dm] _ _ _
_ What in the world's wrong with [Gm] you?
Lou remained with Foreigner for [Cm] years, finally parting [Eb] ways in 2003.
[G] Around that time, while recovering from [Gm] brain surgery, he remembers feeling called to [Eb] sing a new song.
After my operation, which, _ you know, there was a very good chance that I might have died on that [Cm] operating table,
_ _ _ [G] that [Eb] I _ [Gm] had thought long and hard about _ making a Christian rock album.
The Lou Graham [E] Band.
Yes, it is.
With the Graham [C] Brothers.
[G] You better believe it. _
_ [C] _ Singing this [G] album [D] is _ [C] Jesus.
Yes, it is.
God.
[G] And it rocks hard.
[C] _ _ _ [D] For all intents and purposes, [C] Lou Graham _ [G] is back.
Yes.
I think about [D] _ the [G] _ _ years wasted before I knew the Lord.
_ And _ [D] I guess _ [C] everybody has to go through [G] something different.
I don't mourn those [C] years because [D] I am where I am now and [C] that's the best news [G] ever. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ On the [E] strength of hits like _ Jukebox Hero, Hot Blooded, and I Want to Know What Love Is,
Foreigner sold over 50 million albums worldwide with Lou Graham behind the [Db] mic.
[B] Today, 30 [Gb] years later, Lou is still performing _ after battling a brain tumor that almost [Dbm] killed it.
I'm left taking about _ 15 or 16 _ _ prescribed medications twice a day.
Lou [A] enjoys remembering the late [Dbm] _
1970s when Foreigner was rock and roll royalty.
It's pretty staggering and it happened _ _ extremely fast.
It seems like we would _ come out of the studio, right into a tour,
[Abm] and the last two weeks of the tour we would be putting ideas [A] together for the next album.
One song seemed to stand out and kind of _ blew the world open, I think, at the time.
_ I Want to Know What Love Is.
The New Jersey Mass Choir sang, I want to know what love is.
And we were in the control room and I can remember the short hair on the back of my neck standing up.
I was like, dear me.
[Em] _ But after 15 years of drugs, sex, and rock and roll, Lou had a revelation.
[Am] A night after we had played Madison Square Garden,
and _ [F] _ _
I really believed _ [Am] that the lifestyle had the better of me and [F] that I couldn't walk away from it.
_ [C] _ Now that I needed it _ _ more than [Gm] it needed me. _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ And I prayed for the [F] strength and the [Dm] sense to _ break the chain.
The next morning, Lou checked himself into rehab and was soon praying the sinner's prayer [Gm] with a staff pastor.
[Dm] This pastor prays with you, you pray, _ _ Jesus _ Christ, come into my life, one of those kinds of prayers.
[G]
It's a conversion [Gm] prayer.
Yes.
Did you tell your bandmates?
_ Not right away. _
I waited until the next tour and we were on the bus and the cocaine lines came out, the joints came out.
[C] And _ _ _ _ I _ [Dm] let them know that I [Gm] wouldn't be doing that with them and [C] I wouldn't be doing it anymore. _ _
And their response was?
[Dm] _ _ _
_ What in the world's wrong with [Gm] you?
Lou remained with Foreigner for [Cm] years, finally parting [Eb] ways in 2003.
[G] Around that time, while recovering from [Gm] brain surgery, he remembers feeling called to [Eb] sing a new song.
After my operation, which, _ you know, there was a very good chance that I might have died on that [Cm] operating table,
_ _ _ [G] that [Eb] I _ [Gm] had thought long and hard about _ making a Christian rock album.
The Lou Graham [E] Band.
Yes, it is.
With the Graham [C] Brothers.
[G] You better believe it. _
_ [C] _ Singing this [G] album [D] is _ [C] Jesus.
Yes, it is.
God.
[G] And it rocks hard.
[C] _ _ _ [D] For all intents and purposes, [C] Lou Graham _ [G] is back.
Yes.
I think about [D] _ the [G] _ _ years wasted before I knew the Lord.
_ And _ [D] I guess _ [C] everybody has to go through [G] something different.
I don't mourn those [C] years because [D] I am where I am now and [C] that's the best news [G] ever. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _