Somebody Like You
Recording Artist:
Writers: Jim Vallance
Don Barnes
Jeff Carlisi
Donnie Van Zandt
Larry Steele
Date Written: 1985
Albums: Strength In Numbers (1985)
20th Century Masters: Best Of 38 Special - Millennium Collection (2000)
Anthology (2001)
Very Best of the A&M Years 1977-1988 (2003)
Charts: #6 - Billboard Album Rock Tracks Chart / 1986 (15 weeks on the chart)
#48 - Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart / 1986 (12 weeks on the chart)
Audio:
 
Don Barnes: guitar, vocal
Jeff Carlisi: guitar
Larry Junstrom: bass
Jim Vallance: drums
 
Produced, recorded and mixed by Keith Olsen at Goodnight L.A., Van Nuys, California.
Lyrics: Shoulda kept my distance
Shoulda known what I be riskin'
But nothin' short of holding you would ever do - darlin

If we could be together
I would wait for you forever
But how am I gonna win if you never lose

I could feel the pressure
I could see you were something special
I couldn't walk away from you if I'd tried - darlin

I wanna be near you
If only you'd feel like I do
I must have had it wrong, I shoulda known

Somebody like you could break my heart
Somebody like you could tear my world apart - Oh yeah
Somebody like you could keep me in the dark
Somebody like you could break my heart - Yea yeah

I knew that I was fallin'
I could hear your heart beat callin'
I was hopin you'd be mine before the night was thru - darlin

I could keep on loving you
If there's a chance to somehow break thru
I must have had it wrong, I shoulda known

Somebody like you could break my heart
Somebody like you baby
Somebody like you I'm tellin ya
Somebody like you could break my heart

Yea yea yea
Guess I new right from the start
That you were a pretender
But it was you who held my heart
I got love I wanna send ya
Yeah, are you ready to surrender - Oh yeah

Somebody like you could break my heart
Somebody like you could tear my world apart - Oh yeah
Somebody like you could keep my in the dark
Somebody like you baby
Somebody like you I'm tellin ya
Somebody like you could break my heart