Somebody     (video)

 

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1. At a diner down on Broadway they made small talk

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    when she brings his eggs and fills his coffee cup.

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    He jokes about his love life and tells her he's about ready to give up.

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    That’s when she says       I been there before          but keep on lookin’

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    'cause maybe who you're looking for is …

 

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    Somebody in the next car,        somebody on the morning train,

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    somebody in the coffee shop that you walk right by every day.

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    Somebody that you look at but never really see,

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somewhere out there,        there's somebody.

 

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2. Across town in a crowded elevator,

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    he can’t forget the things that waitress said.

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    He reads the paper but today he reads a stranger's face instead.

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    it’s that blue eyed girl        from floors up.

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    maybe she’s the one maybe he could fall in love with....

 

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    Somebody in the next car,        somebody on the morning train,

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    somebody in the coffee shop that you walk right by every day.

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    Somebody that you look at but never really see,

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somewhere out there,        there's somebody.

 

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3. Now they laugh about the moment that it happened,

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    the moment they both missed until that day,

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    when he saw his future in her eyes

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    instead of just another friendly face.

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    And he wonders why,         he’s searched so long,

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    when she was always there at that diner waiting on…

 

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    Somebody in the next car,        somebody on the morning train,

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    somebody in the coffee shop that you walk right by every day.

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    Somebody that you look at but never really see,

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somewhere out there,        oh, somewhere out there

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is somebody.

 

    (Reba McEntire)