Gonna Be Somebody [The Babys featuring Ricky Phillips]

Gonna Be Somebody
Written by Tony Brock, John Waite, Wally Stocker
Lead Vocals by John Waite

You spin around and turn on me
Stop me in my crash
You wanna be somebody else
Say you won't be back
Your bourgeois friends call you dear
Deal you like a card
Your eyes out for the diamonds now
Experienced and scarred

You tell me gonna be somebody
Gonna be okay
Gonna be somebody someday

You're moving through a different space
Where I don't belong
Elegance gold and silver
Superficial grace
They'll pervert you
Masquerade you
Pass evil as good taste
They'll chew you up and spit you out
And put you in your place

You tell me gonna be somebody
Gonna be okay
Gonna be somebody someday
Gonna be somebody
Gonna be okay
Gonna be somebody someday
Gonna be somebody
Gonna be okay
Gonna be somebody someday
Gonna be somebody
Gonna be somebody
Gonna be somebody someday

Interpretation

You tell me you're going to be somebody someday, but right now your so-called friends are just playing you for a fool, using you to get ahead themselves.