Something Special

If there’s no chance to reach you, No bridge, no boat, no stones, Then I would swim the waters, Just like Brian Jones.

If there’s no chance to reach you, No bridge, no boat, no stones, Then I would swim the waters, Just like Brian Jones.

If I would ever lose you, To someone else one day, I shall be diplomatic, Just like Cassius Clay.

If I would ever lose you, To someone else one day, I shall be diplomatic, Just like Cassius Clay.

‘Cause you’re so special… ‘Cause you’re so special… Just like anybody else.

‘Cause you’re so special… ‘Cause you’re so special… Just like anybody else.

You don’t need to worry, Just rely on me. I forever will be faithful, Like Lady Chatterley.

You don’t need to worry, Just rely on me. I forever will be faithful, Like Lady Chatterley.

If there’s a need to tease you, As a chance to make you stay, I’m gonna, I’m gonna be your wild one Just like Doris Day....

If there’s a need to tease you, As a chance to make you stay, I’m gonna, I’m gonna be your wild one Just like Doris Day.

‘Cause you’re so special… Just like anybody else. ‘Cause you’re so special… Just like anybody else.

You’re my everyday sensation, You’re my heaven, you’re my hell. Like a roller-coaster ride, We can make it to the bell.

Perfect combination, Like the seashore and the shell, ‘Cause you’re something special, babe, Just like anybody else.

‘Cause you’re so special… So incredible… Just like anybody else, Unbelievable… ‘Cause you’re so special… So deceivable… Just like anybody else.

‘Cause you’re so special… So impossible… Just like anybody else, So incredible…

‘Cause you’re so special… Unbelievable… Just like anybody else, So deceivable… ‘Cause you’re so special… Just like anybody else, ‘Cause you’re so special…

You don’t need to worry, ‘Cause you’re so special… Just rely on me, Just like anybody else,

‘Cause you’re so special… Just like anybody else…

…faithful, like Lady Chatterley…

These lyrics are obviously satirical, best depicted in the contradiction "Special like anybody else". '

However, the salt and pepper are not in the chorus but in the comparisons made with famous characters (also satirical):

"I would swim the waters just like Brian Jones" is probably a reference to the Rolling Stones member who drowned in his own swimming pool.

"Diplomatic like Cassius Clay" speaks for itself; (for those who were born into the young hipster generation, he is Muhammad Ali, the famous boxer).

"I forever will be faithful like Lady Chatterley" is a reference to the character of the book with the same name by D.H. Lawrence who used to cheat on her paraplegic husband.

Finally, Doris Day is a classic movie actress who gained a reputation for her good girl roles, turning down a the role in "The Graduate" for moral reasons, and being deemed by critics the "world's oldest virgin".