To Love Somebody (1967)

There’s a light
A certain kind of light
That never shone on me
I want my life to be lived with you
Lived with you
There’s a way everybody say
To do each and every little thing
But what does it bring
If I ain’t got you, ain’t got you? Hey babe

You don’t know what it’s like, baby
You don’t know what it’s like
To love somebody
To love somebody
The way I love you

In my brain
I see your face again
I know my frame of mind
You ain’t got to be so blind
And I’m blind, so so sorrily blind
I’m a man, can’t you see
What I am
I live and I breathe for you
But what good does it do
If I ain’t got you, ain’t got? Hey babe…

B.Gibb/ M.Gibb/ R.Gibb

Another song from the soundtrack of my life: this one speaks of unrequited love. It relates to the year that I lost Susan to the vicissitudes of life, after we had met the previous summer. My mourning of that loss propelled me into a relationship with the woman who would become my first wife, three years later, and the mother of my first child.

Why is this song important to me? Because after I left that marriage in 1975 and moved west to British Columbia, I heard it sung live for the first time by Rosalind Keene. It made my heart ache for Susan, all over again. (But she didn’t know a thing about it.)

It took me 40 years to finally get back on track to what I was meant to do, all those years ago.

Note the date…