Need to Belong
Craving Connection: Jerry Butler's Need to Belong
Lyrics
Wo oh oh oh (need to belong) yeah, (to someone)
Expressing the desire or yearning to belong to someone.
M hm hm hm (need to belong)hm hm hm hm hm (to someone)
Reiterating the need for belonging to someone.
I need to belong to someone
Stating the explicit need to be a part of someone's life.
It hurts to be known as no one
Describing the emotional pain of being unrecognized or unnoticed.
Will ever some sweet girl
Anticipating the arrival of a special person (sweet girl) who can bring love.
Bring love into my world, cause
Expressing the hope for love to enter the speaker's world through a sweet girl.
I need to belong to someone (m hm hm hm hm hm hm)
Reiterating the deep need to belong to someone.
I want to be kissed and held tight
Expressing the desire to be kissed and held tightly by someone special.
Want to be missed on a cold lonely night
Wanting to be missed, especially on cold and lonely nights.
Somebody hear my plea and call out to me, cause
Calling out for someone to hear the plea and respond to the need for companionship.
I need to belong to someone
Repeating the essential need to belong to someone.
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Feeling like an abandoned or unloved individual at times.
No one cares for me, I've never known sympathy
Expressing a sense of neglect and lack of sympathy from others.
I hide my needs from the world with a smile
Using a smile to hide personal needs and vulnerabilities from the world.
But understand, I'm only a man and a man
Acknowledging the speaker's humanity and the inherent need for connection.
(needs to belong) yes he does (to someone)
Affirming that every man has a need to belong to someone.
A man hates to be known as no one
Reiterating the discomfort of being unknown or unnoticed.
Will ever some sweet girl, bring love into my world, because
Expressing the hope for love to enter the speaker's world through a sweet girl.
I need to belong to someone
Emphasizing the recurring need to belong to someone.
Oh, I hide my needs, from the world with a smile
Repeating the use of a smile to conceal personal needs and emotions.
But understand, I'm only a man, and a man needs (needs to belong)
Acknowledging the speaker's humanity and the need to belong to someone.
To belong, (to someone) to someone
Reiterating the importance of belonging to someone.
A man hates to be known, as no one
Expressing discomfort with being unknown or unnoticed.
Oh send me a girl, to bring love into my world, cause
Calling for the arrival of a girl to bring love into the speaker's world.
I need to belong to someone (need to belong) mm (to someone)
Reaffirming the deep need to belong to someone.
Mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm
Repeating the vocalization to emphasize the need to belong to someone.
(need to belong to someone)
Reiterating the essential need to belong to someone.
Well I want to belong (need to belong) to somebody (to someone)
Expressing the strong desire to belong to somebody.
Just like you (fade) (need to belong)
Fading out with a repeated expression of the need to belong.
Someone I can tell (to someone)
Expressing the desire to have someone to confide troubles in.
My troubles to
Affirming the ongoing need to belong to someone.
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