Someone Like You

by Rick

This past weekend, a pretty waitress at GeeBee's (Golden Buddha's) requested "Someone Like You". Of course I didn't know it. I don't know anything past 1979. Not really. But almost. I don't work hard enough to learn enough tunes as part of me thinks I ought to. Anyway, she was pretty enough, I thought I'd take a crack at it. Here are dumb lyrics... lyrics which say to me that the girl singer is goin' after some married dude and won't leave him alone. Man-- don't those women ever learn? Anyway, here it is.

"Someone Like You"

I heard that you're settled down
That you found a girl and you're married now.
I heard that your dreams came true.
Guess she gave you things I didn't give to you.

Old friend, why are you so shy?
Ain't like you to hold back or hide from the light.

I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited
But I couldn't stay away, I couldn't fight it.
I had hoped you'd see my face and that you'd be reminded
That for me it isn't over.

Never mind, I'll find someone like you
I wish nothing but the best for you too
Don't forget me, I beg
I remember you said,
"Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead,
Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead, "
Yeah

You know how the time flies
Only yesterday was the time of our lives
We were born and raised
In a summer haze
Bound by the surprise of our glory days

I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited
But I couldn't stay away, I couldn't fight it.
I'd hoped you'd see my face and that you'd be reminded
That for me it isn't over.

Never mind, I'll find someone like you
I wish nothing but the best for you too
Don't forget me, I beg
I remember you said,
"Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead."
Yeah

Nothing compares
No worries or cares
Regrets and mistakes
They are memories made.
Who would have known how bittersweet this would taste?

Never mind, I'll find someone like you
I wish nothing but the best for you
Don't forget me, I beg
I remember you said,
"Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead."

Never mind, I'll find someone like you
I wish nothing but the best for you too
Don't forget me, I beg
I remember you said,
"Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead,
Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead."
Yeah

[Youtube girl sings it]

[Print the chords and lyrics out]

The chord changes are pretty simple but since I don't know the melody, I'll have to run through it a few times to get it... I don't want to have buy the sheet music which is usually five stinkin bucks on the net. I will if I have to, though, just to impress the waitress. Boy I'm an idiot.

Here are two young women doing it, one on piano. note how the piano is "mic'd". The piano player is playing an octiave too high. In fact the singer is too high as well. [+]

Forget the videos and instead-- listen to the piano part while the lyrics are on screen, kareoke style. [+] That doesn't really tell you much about the meloday however.

Here's doll faced young woman just singing it. [+] She's not a trained singer but not bad as a good amateur. She reminds me of a girl I was seeing one time in Owen Sound Ontario, Julie. I never realized Julie wanted to talk to me until ten years after I had left town and played an old answering machine tape for the first time since leaving. I got a message from her that I had never played. She wondered where I had gone. It was spooky.

Why are all these young women singing this song? Here's a pretty young lady whose voice is a bit throatier. I don't think she's playing the piano but she could be. The long brown hair is nice, and her teeth are good. [+.

Here's the Van Morrison song by the same name. It's a better song. It has a beginning, a bridge and an instrumental. This is how songs used to be done. [+] And he's not after a married woman either, making threats that he's gotta see her.

I guess this is the original version by Adelle, or the "official version". [+] I don't think she looks or sounds very good.