The 1975 – Looking for Somebody (To Love) Lyrics

Looking for Somebody (To Love) Lyrics by The 1975

“Looking for Somebody (To Love)” is the third song included in The 1975’s forthcoming album ‘Being Funny in a Foreign Language’.

The song is an 80s synth-pop record that features sarcastic vocals, centered on a crisis of “modern masculinity.”

Being Funny in a Foreign Language’s album description, along with other interviews, includes a snippet of lyrics from the upcoming track.

“I wanna show him he’s a bitch!/I wanna fuck him up good!/I wanna smash the competition – go and kill it like a man should!!!”

“You’ve gotta show me how to push, if you don’t want a shove are the words of a young man, already damned, looking for somebody to love,”

Rolling Stone revealed more information about “Looking for Somebody (To Love)” in a 2022 cover story to promote the album.

Mass shootings and violence appear on [this] dark and upbeat 80s-inspired song that could soundtrack a Black Mirror episode about what happens when a man can’t convince a woman to date him.

[Verse 1]
Somebody runnin’ through the field
Somebody shoulda stayed home
Somebody pickin’ up the body of somebody they were gettin’ to know
Somebody lackin’ in desire
The type you just don’t fuck
A supreme gentleman with a gun in his hand lo-lo-lo-lookin’ for somebody to love

[Chorus]
Lookin’ for somebody to love
Lookin’ for somebody to love

[Verse 2]
I wanna show him he’s a bitch
I wanna fuck him up good
I wanna smash the competition, go and kill it like a man should
“You gotta show me how to push if you don’t want a shove”
Are the words of a young man already damned, lo-lo-lo-looking for somebody to love

[Chorus]
Lookin’ for somebody to love
Lookin’ for somebody to love
Oh they ran, oh they ran
You should have seen how they ran when I was lookin’ for somebody to love
You should have seen it man, I was all bang, bang, bang, bang
Lookin’ for somebody to love
Oh they ran, oh they ran
You should have seen how they ran when I was lookin’ for somebody to love
You should have seen it man, I was all bang, bang, bang, bang
Lookin’ for somebody to love

[Verse 3]
Somebody lyin’ on the field
Somebody cryin’ on the phone
Somebody pickin’ up the body of somebody they were gettin’ to know
Maybe we’re lackin’ in desire
Maybe it’s just all fucked
But the boy with the plan and a gun in his hand was lo-lo-lo-lookin’ for somebody to love (Hey, yeah, woo)

[Chorus]
Lookin’ for somebody to love
Lookin’ for somebody to love
Oh they ran, oh they ran
You should have seen how they ran when I was lookin’ for somebody to love
You should have seen it man, I was all bang, bang, bang, bang
Lookin’ for somebody to love
Lookin’ for somebody to love
Lookin’ for somebody to love