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Bryan Adams - Somebody (live in Belgium, 1988)

Somebody is a rock song written by Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance for Adams fourth studio album Reckless (1984).

It was the second single released from the album Reckless. The song topped the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Stewart Mason from Allmusic said "Following the Big Rawk Anthem ("Run to You") and the Sensitive Power Ballad ("Heaven"), "Somebody" covers the third base as a straight-ahead singalong pop song with a killer chorus. A gift to an entire generation of cover bands working the bar circuit, "Somebody" has a chorus so simple and catchy that you can actually sing along to it even if you've never actually heard the song before, and Adams and his indispensable musical partner, Jim Vallance, helpfully point out the feasibility of said activity by incorporating a large, somewhat ragged group of backing vocalists for the lengthy vamp of a fadeout. Rather like "Run to You," "Somebody" is just slightly too schematic to qualify as an all-time heartland rock classic, but it still sounds good on the radio."

Somebody was part of the 24 songs, for which the first file-sharing copyright infringement lawsuit brought by major record labels to be tried to a jury.

Jammie Thomas, single mother of four, was found liable in a 2007 trial for downloading the 24 songs from Kazaa and ordered to pay $222,000($9,250/song) in damages, in a second trial, in 2009, a jury again found against Thomas, this time awarding $1,920,000($80,000/song) in damages.

The lyrics:

I been lookin' for someone

Between the fire and the flame

We're all lookin' for somethin'

To ease the pain

Now who can you turn to

When it's all black and white

And the winners are losers

You see it every night

I need somebody

Somebody like you

Everybody needs somebody

I need somebody

Hey what about you

Everybody needs somebody

When you're out on the front line

And you're watchin' them fall

It doesn't take long to realize

It ain't worth fightin' for

I thought I saw the Madonna

When you walked in the room

Well your eyes were like diamonds

And they cut right through, oh they cut right through

I need somebody

Somebody like you

Everybody needs somebody

I need somebody

Hey what about you

We all need somebody

Another night another lesson learned

It's the distance keeps us sane

But when the silence leads to sorrow

We do it all again, all again

I need somebody

Somebody like you

Everybody needs somebody

I need somebody

Hey what about you

We all need somebody