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A little Latin for ya: An nescis, mi fili, quantilla sapientia mundus regatur? - Don't you know then, my son, how little wisdom rules the world?
Released in the 1985, near the time Sting broke up with The Police permanently, Dream of the Blue Turtles was his initial effort solo. If you love somebody (set them free) was his big pop hit from it. (Fortress Around Your Heart is another song from it.) With famous musicians Kenny Kirkland and Brandford Marsalis (who was musical director for the Tonight Show with Jay Leno) playing alongside him on the Nothing Like The Sun tour(Shakespeare's Sonnet), I got to see "If you love somebody", and many, many others performed in a top-notch manner.
Here are the lyrics to "If you Love Somebody":
If you need somebody, call my name If you want someone, you can do the same If you want to keep something precious You got to lock it up and throw away the key If you want to hold onto your possession Don't even think about me
If you love somebody, set them free
If it's a mirror you want, just look into my eyes Or a whipping boy, someone to despise Or a prisoner in the dark Tied up in chains you just can't see Or a beast in a gilded cage That's all some people ever want to be
If you love somebody, set them free
You can't control an independent heart Can't tear the one you love apart Forever conditioned to believe that we can't live We can't live here and be happy with less So many riches, so many souls Everything we see we want to possess
If you need somebody, call my name If you want someone, you can do the same If you want to keep something precious You got to lock it up and throw away the key If you want to hold onto your possession Don't even think about me
If you love somebody, set them free
Queen's Somebody to Love
Queen's Lyrics: Can anybody find me somebody to love? Each morning I get up I die a little Can barely stand on my feet Take a look in the mirror and cry Lord what youre doing to me I have spent all my years in believing you But I just cant get no relief,Lord!
Somebody, somebody Can anybody find me somebody to love?
I work hard every day of my life I work till I ache my bones At the end I take home my hard earned pay all on my own -I get down on my knees And I start to pray Till the tears run down from my eyes Lord - somebody - somebody Can anybody find me - somebody to love? (he works hard) Everyday - I try and I try and I try -But everybody wants to put me down They say Im goin crazy They say I got a lot of water in my brain Got no common senseI got nobody left to believe
Yeah - yeah yeah yeah Oh lord Somebody - somebody Can anybody find me somebody to love?
Got no feel, I got no rhythm I just keep losing my beat Im ok, Im alright Aint gonna face no defeat I just gotta get out of this prison cell Someday Im gonna be free, lord!
Find me somebody to love Can anybody find me somebody to love?
And lastly, 'Somebody' by Depeche Mode:
Lyrics too: I want somebody to share Share the rest of my life Share my innermost thoughts Know my intimate details Someone who'll stand by my side And give me support And in return She'll get my support She will listen to me When I want to speak About the world we live in And life in general
Though my views may be wrong They may even be perverted She'll hear me out And won't easily be converted To my way of thinking In fact she'll often disagree But at the end of it all She will understand me
I want somebody who cares For me passionately With every thought and With every breath Someone who'll help me see things In a different light All the things I detest I will almost like I don't want to be tied To anyone's strings I'm carefully trying to steer clear of Those things But when I'm asleep I want somebody Who will put their arms around me And kiss me tenderly Though things like this Make me sick In a case like this I'll get away with it
These would be the in the mode of sounds that everyone heard in a multitude of bands that copied or did better (or worse) than the ones I picked out.
