Someone’s Looking At You – Boomtown Rats
(Bob Geldoff)Intro:
(acoustic)
Na na nana nana na (X3)
(electric)
Na na nana nana na (X2)
On a night like this I deserve to get kissed at least once or twice.
You come over to my place screaming blue murder, needing someplace to hide.
Well, I wish you’d keep quiet. Imaginations run riot in these paper-thin walls.
And when the place comes ablaze with a thousand dropped names I don’t know who to call.
But I got a friend over there in the government block
And he knows the situation and he’s taking stock.
I think I’ll call him up now
Put him on the spot, tonight.
(Repeat electric Intro)
They saw me there in the square when I was shooting my mouth off about saving some fish.
Now, could that be construed as some radicals’ views or some liberals’ wish.
And it’s so hot outside and the air is so sweet.
And when the pressure drop is heavy I don’t wanna hear you speak.
You know most killing is committed at 90 degrees.
When it’s too hot to breathe and it’s too hot to think.
Chorus:
[(F#7)]There’s always someone looking at you. Uh oh uh oh
S-s-s-someone looking at you. Uh oh uh oh
They’re always looking at you. Uh oh uh oh
Refrain:
Tonight
They’re looking at you tonight.
A E x2
(organ solo)
Eb E F# F#7 E(hold)
(guitar solo)
And I wish you’d stop whispering.
Don’t flatter yourself, nobody’s listening.
But it makes me nervous, those things you say.
You may as well shout it from the roof, scream it from your lungs, and spit it from your mouth.
Hey, if you fall on deaf ears to indulge all your fears
There’s a spy in the sky. There’s a noise on the wire.
There’s a tap on the line. And for every paranoid’s desire.
Repeat Chorus:
Coda:
[(F#)]They’re always looking at ya.
E F# B x6 (tacit B chord on last repeat)
They’re always looking at ya.
E(hold)
On a night like this I deserve to get kissed at least once or twice.
