It took two years for the Plain White T's third single to become their first number one. Lead singer Tom Higgenson wrote 'Hey There Delilah' after meeting nationally ranked American steeplechase and cross country runner Delilah DiCrescenzo. A mutual friend invited her to a Lucky Boys Confusion concert in Chicago. Higgenson recalls: “She’s gorgeous. It’s love at first sight. We go to the House of Blues and the whole time I’m goofy flirty. I’m not smooth. I have no game. I joke around that I have a song about her. She knows I’m lying because we just met: ‘Cool, I want to hear it.’” He explains: “She’s a girl from Chicago who was going to college at Columbia. That’s where the line about New York City came from.” After she returned to New York, the two corresponded for weeks online. He says she would tease him and ask: “Where’s my song?” “I told her ‘Eventually I’ll write a song for you and it’ll be the best song I’ve ever written. It’ll be the song that gets us famous and you’ll be my date for the Grammys.’”
'Hey There Delilah' took Higgenson six months to write. It was released on the Plain White T's third album 'All That We Needed' and was also included as a bonus track with a string section on their next album 'Every Second Counts'. In July of 2007, two years after it was originally released, the song found its way to the top of the US pop chart. It was nominated for two Grammy Awards (Song of the Year and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal) and DiCrescenzo went to the awards with Higgenson. She says: “I thought he was just being flirtatious and leading me along. I had a boyfriend at the time, so I really didn’t believe him. I knew it was fictionalized, and I’m glad that I finally get the opportunity to say I do have a boyfriend and it is romanticized. The song means so much to so many different people. I’m just happy that it’s had so much success, and I don’t mind playing along with it.”
'Hey There Delilah' also went to number fifteen in Sweden; fourteen in Italy; nine in New Zealand and Switzerland; eight in the Netherlands; six in Sweden; three in Australia; two in Austria, Belgium, Ireland, and the UK; and number one in Canada, Germany, and on the Eurochart.
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Hey there Delilah
What's it like in New York City
I'm a thousand miles away
But girl tonight you look so pretty,
Yes you do
Times Square can't shine as bright as you,
I swear it's true
Hey there Delilah
Don't you worry about the distance
I'm right there if you get lonely
Give this song another listen
Close your eyes, listen to my voice
It's my disguise
I'm by your side
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
What you do to me
Hey there Delilah,
I know times are getting hard
But just believe me girl,
Someday I'll pay the bills with this guitar
We'll have it good,
We'll have the life we knew we would
My word is good
Hey there Delilah,
I've got so much left to say
If every simple song I wrote to you
Would take your breath away,
I'd write it all
Even more in love with me you'd fall,
We'd have it all
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
A thousand miles seems pretty far
But they've got planes and trains and cars
I'd walk to you if I had no other way
Our friends would all make fun of us
And we'll just laugh along because we know
That none of them have felt this way
Delilah I can promise you
That by the time that we get through
The world will never ever be the same
And you're to blame
Hey there Delilah
You be good and don't you miss me
Two more years and you'll be done with school
And I'll be making history like I do
You'll know it's all because of you
We can do whatever we want to
Hey there Delilah here's to you
This one's for you
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
What you do to me
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