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Someone Like You

The Stranglers
Track 2 on 10 

Producer

Roy Thomas Baker
It’s about someone who comes along and disrupts the singer’s peaceful, predictable life, in ways that are both uncomfortable and exciting.
Mar. 1, 19901 viewer

Someone Like You Lyrics

Your earthquake hit when I was living so peacefully
My mind was busy I had something to do
My world was planned and I was living so tranquilly
You turned me round just like a whirlpool

[Chorus]
Someone like you (makes me dizzy)
Someone like you
Someone like you (drives me crazy)
Someone like you

Your hurricane was blowing like there was no today
I was asleep alone with nothing to do
My roof was raised as I was snoring so comfortably
You shook me up just like a twister

[Chorus]

[BRIDGE]
All lone at night I lie without any air
Then you arrive and always take me somewhere
What else can you do?

(guitar solo)

[Chorus]
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[Bridge]

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It’s about someone who comes along and disrupts the singer’s peaceful, predictable life, in ways that are both uncomfortable and exciting.

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10 (1990)
The Stranglers
  1. 1.
    Sweet Smell of Success
  2. 2.
    Someone Like You
  3. 3.
    96 Tears
  4. 4.
    In This Place
  5. 5.
    Let’s Celebrate
  6. 6.
    Man of the Earth
  7. 7.
    Too Many Teardrops
  8. 8.
    Where I Live
  9. 9.
    Out of My Mind
  10. 10.
    Never to Look Back
  11. 11.
    Instead of This
  12. 12.
    Poisonality (Missing Lyrics)
  13. 13.
    Motorbike (Missing Lyrics)
  14. 14.
    Something (Missing Lyrics)
  15. 15.
    You (Missing Lyrics)
  16. 16.
    ¡Viva Vlad!
  17. 17.
    All Day and All of the Night
  18. 18.
    Always the Sun (Sunny Side Up mix)
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Release Date
March 1, 1990
Tags
Rock
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