These same four songs were used on the demo Foreigner used to get their recording contract. 'Feels Like the First Time' was one of four songs (along with 'Take Me to Your Leader,' 'At War with the World' and 'Woman, Oh Woman') that Lou Gramm sang at his audition to become the lead singer of Foreigner. I'd met somebody, I got re-married and moved with her to America, and that was the song that described that experience.' And to me it was this challenge of really going for a new start in my life. I'd gone back to England and then finally made the journey to America while I was in the band Spooky Tooth. I was coming out of a previous marriage with somebody I'd met in France. 'Feels Like The First Time' was written about a bit of a change in my life. One of those songs was 'Feels Like the First Time.'' Before I knew it, I had two or three songs, and I wondered what to do with them. According to Jones, 'I started writing by myself.

Jones wrote 'Feels Like the First Time' while putting together the band that would become Foreigner.

Foreigner feels like the first time