When You Love Somebody

Some predicted we will not last

'Cause our personalities often clash

I would rather be left alone

Let us work it out on our own

And if it don't turn out like we thought

Then we both can say that it was our fault

And can we go our separate ways

Content with decisions we made, lady

Sometimes a person outgrows the lover they chose

Who failed to keep love new

And there's a part of me that wants to be free

And there's a part that will always believe, yeah

When you love somebody (Somebody), somebody loves you back (Oh)

(Can't never let nobody ever come between that)

When you love somebody and somebody loves you back

(Gonna cry together, nothing's better than when you love somebody)

Maybe we got involved too fast

Anything but making love was too much to ask

This has to be more than sexual

So you and I have to try to talk and take it slow

Now do we have a common dream

Something we can show that can prove we're a team?

We both wanna prove them wrong

But now the thought is not strong, hey, hey

So, girl, we got to let go, I love you, I know

We managed to not be brave enough

To weather the storm as others we've known have chose to do

There's no changing my point of view, no

When you love somebody (Somebody), somebody loves you back (Hey)

(You can never let nobody ever come between that)

When you love somebody (No, no), somebody loves you back

(Gonna cry together, nothing's better than when you love somebody, somebody)

When you love somebody (Somebody loves you), somebody loves you back

(When somebody loves you back, baby, hey, hey, hey, hey)

When you love somebody (Somebody), somebody loves you back

(Oh, I wanna love you back, wanna love you back)

Sometimes a person outgrows the lover they chose

Who failed to keep love new

And there's a part of me that wants to be free

And there's a part that will always believe

When you love somebody (Yeah), somebody loves you back

(Can't let nobody ever come between that)

When you love somebody (Nobody), somebody loves you back

(Gonna cry together, nothing's better than when you love somebody, hey, yeah)

When you love somebody (Oh), somebody loves you back

(I wanna love somebody, hey, hey, hey, yeah)

When you love somebody (Someone), somebody loves you back (Woo)

(Somebody loves you, somebody love you, somebody loves you

I need to be loved)

When you love somebody, somebody loves you back

(But not just by anybody, somebody special, haha

Somebody unique, ha, that loves the hell out of me)

When you love somebody (Oh), somebody loves you back (Somebody)