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Saturday, November 24, 2012

New Featured Unknown/Underrated Track of the Rock Era: "Someone To Lay Down Beside Me" by Linda Ronstadt

This great song written by Karla Bonoff was included on Linda Ronstadt's excellent album Hasten Down the Wind.  It only reached #42 in 1977, but should have done much better:

"Someone To Lay Down Beside Me"
by Linda Ronstadt
 
Words and Music by Karla Bonoff
 
 
There's somebody waiting alone in the street
For someone to walk up and greet
 
Here you are all alone in the city
Where's the one that you took to your side
Lonely faces will stare through your eyes in the night
And they'll say - woman sweet woman please come home with me
You're shining and willing and free
But your love it's a common occurence
Not like love that I feel in my heart
Still you know that may be what I need

Is someone to lay down beside me
And even though it's not real
Just someone to lay down beside me
You're the story of my life
 
Well morning is breaking the street lights are off
The sun will soon share all the cost
Of a world that can be sort of heartless
Not like love that you feel in our heart
Still you know that may be all you get
Is someone to lay down beside me
And even tho it's not real
 
Just someone to lay down beside me
You just can't ask for more

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