The lyrics to both verses were finished, and the first line of the chorus — Fill my eyes — was in place. Lou Gramm and Mick Jones, the driving forces behind Foreigner, one of the best-selling rock bands in history, had worked through the melody enough to know they had another hit on their hands.
It was the fall of 1977, and the band was in a New York City studio working through songs for the follow-up album to the self-titled “Foreigner,” which launched them to fame a year earlier. The new record didn’t have a title, and the song they were most excited about had everything, as Gramm put
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