Everybody Lost Somebody

**Everybody Lost Somebody** is the fifth track on Gone Now, and has been called "the heart and soul of the album" by Jack Antonoff. It was released on May 12, 2017.

## Lyrics

I gotta get myself back home soon

I gotta get myself back home soon

I guess it's true

The only reason that I called you last night

Is the reason I been standing on a wire

It's this dream I keep having where I'm begging

Just to get myself a break (hey)

But there's nothing I wouldn't do to wake up and remember it

I wanna wake up and remember

So take my clothes, that's better

I think pain is waiting alone at the corner

Tryna get myself back home, yeah

Looking like everybody

Knowing everybody lost somebody

I'm standing here in the cold and

I gotta get myself back home soon

Looking like everybody

Knowing everybody lost somebody

Everybody lost somebody

Everybody lost somebody

I waited 'til the night was over

Cursed the sun for coming up all over

Cashed the checks I had I didn't own

Standing on the corner, God I wonder when

I'll give myself a break (hey)

But there's nothing I wouldn't do to settle up with Heaven

And today I gotta settle in Heaven

Take my clothes, that's better

I think pain is waiting alone at the corner

Tryna get myself back home, yeah

Looking like everybody

Knowing everybody lost somebody

I'm standing here in the cold and

I gotta get myself back home soon

Looking like everybody

Knowing everybody lost somebody

I'm lost

I know that I'm lost

Lost in a world without you

I know that I'm lost

I know that I'm lost

Lost in a world without you

And there's a reason I wake up alone in strange places

A reason I see myself in a million faces

A reason I can't stop it all from changing

So come on, motherfucker, you survived you gotta give yourself a break! (hey)

But there's nothing I wouldn't do to settle up with Heaven

And today I gotta settle in Heaven

So take my clothes, I'm begging

Everybody lost somebody

Everybody lost somebody

Everybody lost somebody

Everybody lost somebody

I gotta get myself back home soon

I gotta get myself back home soon

## Commentary

* “I had a moment early on when I was writing this album. I was out on the street in New York and I was thinking that everybody has these massive stories. Everyone has a great loss. Whether you’ve seen the worst tragedy in your family, or your partner left you - whatever it is - that’s the sludge that we all push through in life. It’s not what we lost, it’s more who we lost.” -Jack Antonoff, in an interview with DIY
* “I was looking back on ‘I Wanna Get Better’ and it was such a sad song. It’s so heartbreaking for me, telling all the darkest stories of my life. Then I remembered, at some point, there was a shift when it turned into this big celebration. Maybe record writing and making is a solitary, painful process and touring is to get together with people you have something in common with? In some ways, the darker the song, the more thrilling it is when you get to come together and celebrate it.” -Jack Antonoff, in an interview with DIY

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 NOBODY PUTS JACK IN THE BOX: BLEACHERS https://diymag.com/2017/06/19/bleachers-gone-now-jack-antonoff-interview-2017