Someone To Watch Over Me [Dennis DeYoung]

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Someone To Watch Over Me
Written by Ira Gershwin & George Gershwin
Lead Vocals by Dennis DeYoung

There's a saying old
Says that love is blind.
Still, we're often told
"Seek, and you shall find."
So I'm gonna seek a certain girl I have in mind.

Looking everywhere
Haven't found her yet.
She's the big affair
I cannot forget.
Only one I every think of with regret.

I'd like to add her initial to my monogram.
Tell me who is the shepherdess to this lost lamb.

There's a somebody I'm longing to see,
I hope that she turns out to be
Someone who'll watch over me.

I'm a little lamb who's lost in the wood.
I know I could always be good
To one who'll watch over me.

Although she may not be the girl some men think of as pretty,
To my heart she carries the key.
Won't you tell her please to put on some speed,
Follow my lead, oh, how I need
Someone to watch over me.
Someone to watch over me.

Interpretation

Originally featured in the 1926 Broadway musical Oh Kay! early in Act II, Kay tells her rag doll that she needs "Someone to Watch Over Me". The song appeared on Broadway in 1992 in the middle of Act I of Crazy for You, which is the musical that Dennis cited in the liner notes of his CD as the source for this song. Polly Baker, the postmistress of tiny, quiet Deadrock, Nevada, has been helping the new man in town with a plan to put on a show to help save the rundown theater from closing. Heartbroken after finding out that her new love interest is actually Bobby Child, the man sent to close down the theater, Polly is deeply hurt when Bobby decides to put on the show, anyway.  She sings this song to express her loneliness. For the album, Dennis modified the lyrics to be told from a man's point of view.