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