I Don't Want to Wait

Infobox Single |
Name = I Don't Want to Wait


Artist = Paula Cole
from Album = This Fire
A-side =
B-side =
Released = 1997
Format = CD
Recorded = 1997
Genre = Adult contemporary
Length = 4:08 (Radio edit)
Label = Warner Bros.
Writer = Paula Cole
Producer = Paula Cole
Certification =
Last single = "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone" (1997)
This single = "I Don't Want to Wait" (1997)
Next single = "Me" (1998)
Misc =

"I Don't Want to Wait" is a song written, performed and produced by Paula Cole. It was the opening theme for the TV-series "Dawson's Creek". It was Cole's second single from her album "This Fire". The single was #10 on the 1997 Hot 100 Singles on Billboard's year end summary. The single spent the most consecutive weeks in the Top 50 without cracking the Top 10, just missing out at #11. This single, with a 56 week-long run, is still among the list of the 20 songs in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 to have had a chart run longer than 50 weeks. Fact|date=January 2008
VH1 ranked it as one of the 100-greatest-songs-of-the-90s at #81.

Music video

The music video for the song was directed by Mark Seliger and Fred Woodward. It was one of Cole's first videos, and was based on the concept of a woman who was immortal and had lovers in different time periods, all of whom died. The cut of the video was originally in chronological order, but for unknown reasons, a cut that was out of order was more frequently aired which led to the directors taking their name off the video.

Chart Performance