I Need Somebody

[Image: 'Chagall Guevara' Front Cover]

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Lyrics

Creep quasimodo
Yeah, I am a likely target
Sure I'll play the part
Born with the face of an old DeSoto

If misery loves more
Then why am I crying alone?
I'd make a better bore
If there were someone to practice it on

I need somebody
I'm on the outside looking in
I need somebody
I cannot face my face again

Genetic drifter
Quarantined in my own dimension
Hey look! It smokes, it drinks, it philosophizes!
It's loving this new attention

We apologize
But the status quota's already met
And if you reapply
You'll need a written excuse from your vet

I need somebody
I'm on the outside looking in
I need somebody
I cannot face my face again

I need somebody
I'm on the outside looking through
I need somebody
I never wanted this tattoo

She gave me water
She gave me her books to carry
Then the dream was gone
I'm back in my sanctuary

Nothing to confess
But I've got scars deeper than your minds
Nothing to declare
But my love for all of mankind

I need somebody
I'm on the outside looking in
I need somebody
I cannot face my face again

I need somebody
I'm on the outside looking through
I need somebody
I never paid for this tattoo

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About The Song

From Steve Taylor Interview, Listen In, August 2005:

I like that song a lot, just because it's told from the vantage point of a guy who is not very successful with the ladies, or socially adept, or anything else, but he's a smart guy. I felt like--we live in an age now where the nerds have kind of taken over, but at that point that wasn't the case.