| Somebody broke your heart once before, yeah
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| Now you claim you don’t want love no more
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| Listen, girl, hear what I say
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| How long do you think you can go on this way?
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| You know you can’t stand alone no matter how you try
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| Got to have somebody to love, goes for you & I
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| (Everybody needs somebody)
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| (Everybody needs somebody)
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| (Everybody needs somebody)
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| All of a sudden you can’t stand alone
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| Love brought you heartaches sometime, so wrong, yeah
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| Don’t let it turn your heart into stone
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| I love you, baby; | 
| this you can recognize, yeah
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| I see a spark of love deep in your eyes
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| You know you can’t stand alone no matter how you try
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| Got to have somebody to love, goes for you & I
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| (Everybody needs somebody)
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| (Everybody needs somebody)
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| (Everybody needs somebody)
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| All of a sudden you can’t stand alone
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| Love brought you misery; | 
| that may be true
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| But that is something that we all go through
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| Oh come put your hand in mine & don’t look back
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| Let’s fall in love, baby; | 
| that’s where it’s at
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| You know you can’t stand alone no matter how you try
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| Got to have somebody to love, goes for you & I
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| You know you can’t stand alone no matter how you try
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| Got to have somebody to love, goes for you & I
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| (Everybody needs somebody) |