Somebody Just Like You

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Sometimes, part of getting older has to do with the struggle to not be inappropriately sentimental. By inappropriate I mean getting weighed down with the notion that the world of your past is a better one than the one you currently inhabit and, if things could just be the way they were when you were twenty-five, everything would be just wonderful . . . or, if only you were young again, hotties of the opposite sex would want to fuck you. By succumbing to this kind of sentimentality you are only fucking yourself!!

By struggle I mean . . . my head seems to have a knack for finding its way up my ass, without much help from outside influences or technological assistance of any kind and I tend to lose sight of the wonderful people I am surrounded by . . . right here and right now.

But I’m getting better at being grateful for what I have and the longing for the past has less and less of an influence on my day to day, these days.

I tried to write Somebody Just Like You to express that gratitude and the song has taken years to come together. It started out as one thing and then it morphed into something else that was better but not entirely pleasing and so, I put it aside and came back to it a year later and gave it another shot. All along, I’m getting older and older and I’m thinking to myself, “Jesus! I’m going to be working on this song when I’m ninety!”

Then, a few months ago, the song just kind of tumbled into the shape it’s in now and, after playing it a bunch of times, I felt that it was as good as it was ever going to be and that it was time to move on and mark this case closed.

I don’t know how you are going to feel listening to it, but I always wind up feeling better after playing and singing it!

I lost my faith in the City of Angels
Left it out there stranded on the 405
I survived my fame and my cocaine connections
And I wake up in the morning
Glad to be alive

And I don’t have to ask for directions
Don’t need to be told what to do
I look for the glow
Of the golden perfection
Of somebody
Somebody
Somebody just like you

The news today is filled with confusion
So many people got so much to say
And things get lost, ignored or forgotten
And I wake up in the morning
And try to find my way

And I don’t have to ask for directions
Don’t need to be told what to do
I look for the glow
Of the golden perfection
Of somebody
Somebody
Somebody just like you

You keep me straight
And you keep me strong
Keep me feeling I belong
I believe I can do no wrong
As long as I’m with you

I earned my scars livin and learnin
Nothin’s come easy and nothin’ come free
And when they turn out the lights on my generation
I’ll wake up in the morning
And you’ll be there with me

And I won’t have to ask for directions
Won’t need to be told what to do
I will look for the glow
Of the golden perfection
Of somebody
Somebody
Somebody just like you