People Like You (original composition)

Original song composition by singer-songwriter Gerry Dempsey. Video still artwork also created by Gerry Dempsey.

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http://www.archive.org/details/Dempsey_People_Like_You

Lyrics

People like you, people like me
Should have been brought up separately:
In separate rooms, fed separate foods,
We only ever disagree.
People like you, people like me
Have a certain kind of chemistry:
Kept apart, everything's fine,
But together the sparks start flying,
If only you and me -
Were different, we -
Could keep our distance -
And keep our sanity.

People like you, people like him
Could have been two of natures twins:
Similar heads, similar brains,
Similar aches and similar pains.
People like him, people like you
Would be better off stuck like glue,
Out of everyone's way,
Off the field of play,
Cutting down the damage you do .
If you ask me,
I recommend you and he,
get together and put yourselves
Out of everybody else's
Misery.

People get burned, people get hurt,
People get hooked on eating dirt.
Even when they divorce,
As a matter of course,
They come back begging for more.
People in love are people in pain,
But they say: More of the same again!
I need a replacement
To give me debasement,
To treat me with disdain.
Somebody so badly burned,
You'd think might learn,
But no, they just come back
For another turn.

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Category:

Music

Tags:

• people
• personal
• relationships
• compatibility
• mandolin
• vocals
• guitar
• songwriters

[LillyC68]

Awesome lyrics, Gerry! :)) Great song... another 5* and thanks,

Lilly

[tomjoad2007]

One of my favourite Dempsey ditties.