Someone Just Like This

Someone Just Like This

Cold Play and The Chainsmokers
July 2, 2017

When I was much younger, I set myself for failure time after time. I unconsciously, yet willingly, set myself for defeat because I only regarded people’s external features. Looking back, I only desired to praise my youth and celebrate my athletic victories. Deep down I only yearned some sort of personage like the one Cold Play and The Chainsmokers portray in their song, Something Just Like This. Someone who wanted to stand by me through good and bad, through rough and smooth, someone who would love me for being me, someone who’d be there for me at my absolute worse no matter what…

I don’t need no fairy tale hero, no Achilles, no Hercules, no Superman, or Batman. My super hero is much more powerful than that. Someone who gives me a chance to miss and be missed, and treat me like his equal, someone who understands and clearly visualizes my essence...

Someone Just Like This

I've been reading books of old
The legends and the myths
Achilles and his gold
Hercules and his gifts
Spiderman's control
And Batman with his fists
And clearly I don't see myself upon that list

But she said, where'd you wanna go?
How much you wanna risk?
I'm not looking for somebody
With some superhuman gifts
Some superhero
Some fairytale bliss
Just something I can turn to
Somebody I can kiss

I want something just like this
Doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo
Doo-doo-doo
Oh, I want something just like this
Doo-doo-doo, doo-doo
Doo-doo-doo
Oh, I want something just like this
I want something just like this

I've been reading books of old
The legends and the myths
The testaments they told
The moon and its eclipse
And Superman unrolls
A suit before he lifts
But I'm…But I'm not the kind of person that it fits

She said, "Where d'you wanna go?
How much you wanna risk?
I'm not looking for somebody
With some superhuman gifts.
Some superhero,
Some fairytale bliss.
Just something I can turn to.
Somebody I can miss.
I want something just like this.
I want something just like this."