Paula Cole - I Don't Want to Wait

Released: October 14, 1997 Format: CD Genre: Pop Length: 5:19 (Album Version), 4:07 (Radio Edit) Label: Warner Bros. Writer: Paula Cole Producer: Paula Cole "I Don't Want to Wait" is a song written, performed and produced by Paula Cole. It was Cole's second single from her album This Fire and later served as the opening theme for the TV-series Dawson's Creek. The single was #10 on the 1998 Hot 100 Singles on the Billboard 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. VH1 ranked it as one of the 100 Greatest Songs Of The 90s at #81.