This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Well just look at that girl
With the lights comin'up in her eyes
She's got to be somebody's baby
She must be somebody's baby
'Cause all the guys on the corner
Stand back and let her walk on by
They say she's got to be somebody's baby
She must be somebody's baby
She's got to be somebody's baby
She's so fine
[Chorus]
She probably somebody's only light
Gonna shine tonight, oh yeah
She's probably somebody's baby all right
I heard her talkin' with her friend
When she thought that nobody else was around
She said she's got to be somebody's baby
She must be somebody's baby
'Cause when the cars and the signs
And the street lights light up the town
She's got to be somebody's baby
She must be somebody's baby
She's got to be somebody's baby
She's so
[Chorus]
I try to shut my eyes
But I can't get her out of my sight
I know I'm gonna know her
But I gotta get over my fright
Well I'ma gonna walk up to her
I'm gonna talk to her tonight
Oh yeah
[Chorus]
With the lights comin'up in her eyes
She's got to be somebody's baby
She must be somebody's baby
'Cause all the guys on the corner
Stand back and let her walk on by
They say she's got to be somebody's baby
She must be somebody's baby
She's got to be somebody's baby
She's so fine
[Chorus]
She probably somebody's only light
Gonna shine tonight, oh yeah
She's probably somebody's baby all right
I heard her talkin' with her friend
When she thought that nobody else was around
She said she's got to be somebody's baby
She must be somebody's baby
'Cause when the cars and the signs
And the street lights light up the town
She's got to be somebody's baby
She must be somebody's baby
She's got to be somebody's baby
She's so
[Chorus]
I try to shut my eyes
But I can't get her out of my sight
I know I'm gonna know her
But I gotta get over my fright
Well I'ma gonna walk up to her
I'm gonna talk to her tonight
Oh yeah
[Chorus]
Lyrics submitted by ChErRyCoLa
Somebody's Baby Lyrics as written by Jackson Browne Danny Kortchmar
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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This is an awesome remake of an awesome Jackson browne song. To me this song is walking up to a girl that is untouchable, but than realizing that the only way to really get a girl like that is to talk to them and not be afraid of rejection.
everytime I hear this song I think about my ex became somebody's baby sometime ago.thank God not anymore now.
This song was recently on a movie I watched and its great. I think it more to be about this beautiful girl who is just so untouchable she has to be someones "somebody".
i really really like this song its sooo fun and happy and just makes you wanna sing along
This is one of my favorite 80's song. then when i heard the punk cover of this song, i just thought it was so sweet. It makes me want to cry. Too sweet....
makes me wanna cry too :( only I look at it as an untouchable guy.. but he seems to think I'm untouchable also.. ;'[
I really like this song, it makes me want somebody to call "baby".
i think it's about a guy who thinks this chick is so beautiful and special, that she's gotta have a boyfriend....because all the other guys who see her, don't want to talk to her, he thinks they're crazy....it's a gorgeous song...
i loooove this song. i first heard it on the movie "not another teen movie" it's about this guy who meets a girl that is not the most gorgeous person but he sees her internal beauty. and he wonders how no one else can see this beauty, and why she doesn't have a man..
same here...every time I hear this song I hear about this girl in my english class (I'm in college at Georgia Tech), and available girls here are EXTREMELY uncommon (the male/female ratio is like 72/28 here...sux), but anyway she's hot as hell, very cool, everything i look for in a girl, but she has a boyfriend. Just like any other girl here, has to belong to somebody...