Dexys Midnight Runners

Released: June 3, 2016

Songwriter: Robin Gibb Barry Gibb

Producer: Sean Read Kevin Rowland Pete Schwier

There's a light,
a certain kind of light,
That's never shone on me.
I wanted my life to be,
lived with you, lived with you,
and there's a way, many people say,
to do each and every thing.
But what good would it bring,
if I ain't got you, if I ain't got you.

[chorus]
You don't know what it's like,
you don't know what it's like
to love somebody, to love somebody
the way I love you.

And in my brain, let the record show.
I'll see your face again, and I know my frame of mind,
but please don't so flipping kind.
With you i'm blind,
I see things that aren't even there and what you saying.
But I'm a man, don't you see that's what I am.
And I lived and breathed for you.
What good did it do, 'cause I ain't got you,
and I'll never have you.

[chorus]
You don't know what it's like,
you don't know what it's like
to love somebody, to love somebody
the way I love you, always.

Timmy. (What?) Tell the people.
You, you, you, you, you, you, you, you,

you don't know what it's like,
you don't know what it's like
to love somebody, to love somebody
the way I love you, always. (Always will.)

You don't know what it's like, (tell em)
You don't know what it's like
to love somebody, to love somebody
the way I love you, the way I love you. (The way I love you)

You don't know what it's like,
you don't know what it's like
to love somebody, to love somebody
the way I love you, always, always

You don't know what it's like,
you don't know what it's like
to love somebody, to love somebody
the way I love you, always.

You don't know what it's like,
you don't know what it's like
to love somebody.

Dexys Midnight Runners (currently officially Dexys, their common nickname; sometimes styled with and sometimes without an apostrophe) are an English pop band with soul influences, who achieved their major success in the early to mid-1980s. They are best known in the UK for their songs “Come On Eileen” and “Geno”, both of which peaked at No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart, as well as six other top-20 singles.

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Dexys went through numerous personnel changes over the course of three albums and thirteen singles, with only singer/songwriter/co-founder Kevin Rowland remaining in the band through all of the transitions and only Rowland and “Big” Jim Paterson (trombone) appearing on all of the albums. By 1985, the band consisted only of Rowland and long-standing members Helen O'Hara (violin) and Billy Adams (guitar). The band broke up in 1987, with Rowland becoming a solo artist. After two failed restart attempts, Dexys was reformed by Rowland in 2003 with new members, as well as a few returning members from the band’s original lineup (known as Dexys Mark I). Dexys released their fourth album in 2012 and a fifth followed in 2016.

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