Songwriter: Daryl Hall
Producer: Arif Mardin Daryl Hall John Oates
It was always you and me and him
A whiskey sour, beer and gin
We were having fun
When the night was over
You'd go off together leaving me alone
All alone
I stayed up every night, I had to find a way
I had to get to you
So I told you he was stepping outside
I said when you broke down and cried
Why don't you come to me
She said I love you like a brother
And that's how it's got to stay
Because I don't need no reminder
Of the love that went away
And the more I desire
The less it does inspire
Because she says I remind her
Of the love she left behind
I found myself in the same old place
In the bar, another lonely night to spend
But the first thing I saw when I walked in
Was my almost lover, and my ex best friend
She was drinking all alone
And he was on the telephone
They wouldn't look at me
I went outside, I wanted to cry
It's a lonely life, ain't what it used to be
She said I love you like a brother
And that's how it's got to stay
Because I don't need no reminder
Of the love that went away
And the more I desire
The less it does inspire
Because she says I remind her
Of the love she left behind
She said I love you like a brother
And that's how it's got to stay
Because I don't need no reminder
Of the love that went away
And the more I desire
The less it does inspire
Because she says I remind her
Of the love she left behind
A whiskey sour, beer and gin
We were having fun
When the night was over
You'd go off together leaving me alone
All alone
I stayed up every night, I had to find a way
I had to get to you
So I told you he was stepping outside
I said when you broke down and cried
Why don't you come to me
She said I love you like a brother
And that's how it's got to stay
Because I don't need no reminder
Of the love that went away
And the more I desire
The less it does inspire
Because she says I remind her
Of the love she left behind
I found myself in the same old place
In the bar, another lonely night to spend
But the first thing I saw when I walked in
Was my almost lover, and my ex best friend
She was drinking all alone
And he was on the telephone
They wouldn't look at me
I went outside, I wanted to cry
It's a lonely life, ain't what it used to be
She said I love you like a brother
And that's how it's got to stay
Because I don't need no reminder
Of the love that went away
And the more I desire
The less it does inspire
Because she says I remind her
Of the love she left behind
She said I love you like a brother
And that's how it's got to stay
Because I don't need no reminder
Of the love that went away
And the more I desire
The less it does inspire
Because she says I remind her
Of the love she left behind
more tracks from the album
Hall and Oates
- Lady Rain
- When The Morning Comes
- Love You Like a Brother
- Everytime I Look at You
- I’m Just a Kid (Don’t Make Me Feel Like a Man)
- Lilly (Are You Happy)
- It’s Uncanny
- I Want to Know You for a Long Time
- Can’t Stop The Music (He Played It Much Too Long)
- Had I Known You Better Then
- Las Vegas Turnaround (The Stewardess Song)
- She’s Gone
- 70's Scenario
- Laughing Boy
- Beanie G. And The Rose Tattoo - previously unreleased, Live at the New Victoria Theatre, London, Oct
From the albums
- Hall and Oates
- No Goodbyes (1977)
Hall & Oates popular songs
- You Make My Dreams
- Rich Girl
- Maneater
- Out of Touch
- I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do)
- She’s Gone
- Sara Smile
- Private Eyes
- Kiss On My List
- Adult Education
- Wait for Me
- Family Man
- When The Morning Comes
- One on One
- Say It Isn’t So
- Method of Modern Love
- Philly Forget Me Not
- Everytime You Go Away
- Do It for Love
- So Close
- Do What You Want, Be What You Are
- I’m Really Smokin’
- Waterwheel
- Alone Too Long