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Somebody to Love by Queen is featured in The Rhodes Not Taken, the fifth episode of Season One. It is sung by the New Directions for their second act at their Invitationals. Artie, Finn, Mercedes, and Rachel have solos.
Due to April being kicked out by Will because of her drunkenness after their first song, Last Name, Rachel decides to rejoin, after not liking being in the musical Cabaret by herself. She already knows the lyrics to the song and so Finn and the others agree to help her with the choreography. It is the first song in which all of the first twelve members perform together. In Sectionals, the thirteenth episode of Season One, Quinn suggests this song to be used again as the closing song at Sectionals because it's a "crowd pleaser." That happens after the group's initial set-list is stolen by the opposing schools (with a helping hand from Sue); however, this song is not seen performed onscreen. Besides singing, Artie was also on the guitar.
Lyrics[]
Finn:
Can
New Directions:
Anybody
Find me
Somebody to love?
Rachel:
Ooooooh
Each morning I get up, I die a little
Can barely stand on my feet
Finn (New Directions):
(Take a look at yourself) Take a look
(In the mirror) In the mirror and cry (and cry!)
Lord, what you're doing to me (Yeah, yeah)
Rachel (New Directions):
I (Ooooh, ooooh) spent all my years
Rachel with New Directions:
Believing you
But I just can't get no relief
Lord
Finn (New Directions):
Somebody (Somebody)
Oooh, somebody (somebody)
Finn and Rachel (with New Directions):
Can (anybody find me)
Finn:
Somebody to love?
Artie (New Directions):
I work hard (He works hard)
Every day of my life
Artie and Rachel:
I work till I ache in my bones
Artie (New Directions):
At the end (at the end of the day!)
Artie (New Directions):
I take home
(Goes home!)
My hard earned pay all on my own
(Goes home on his own!)
Rachel (New Directions):
I get down (down) on my knees (knees)
And I start to pray (praise the lord!)
Rachel with New Directions harmonizing:
'Till the tears run down from my eyes, (with New Directions: Lord)
Finn (New Directions):
Somebody (Somebody)
Finn and Rachel (New Directions):
Oooh, somebody (Please!)
Finn and Rachel (with New Directions):
Can (anybody find me)
Rachel:
Somebody to love?
Artie (New Directions):
(He works hard) Oh every day (every day)
I (with New Directions: try and I try and I try)
Rachel with New Directions harmonizing:
But everybody wants to put me down
They say I'm goin' crazy
Artie with New Directions harmonizing:
They say I got a lot of water in my brain
Artie (New Directions):
I got no common sense
I got (He's got) (with New Directions: nobody left to believe)
No, ooooooh (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!)
New Directions:
Ooooh
Finn with New Directions:
Oh
Finn (New Directions):
Somebody (somebody)
Finn and Rachel (New Directions):
Oooh, somebody (please!)
Finn and Rachel (with New Directions:)
Can (anybody find me)
Rachel:
Somebody to love
New Directions:
Can
Anybody
Find me
Someone to love?
Finn (New Directions):
Got no feel, I got no rhythm
I just keep losing my beat (You just keep losing and losing)
Rachel (New Directions):
I'm okay, I'm alright (He's alright, he's alright)
(Yeah, yeah) I ain't gonna face no defeat
Finn and Rachel (New Directions):
(Oooohhh) I just gotta get out of (with New Directions: this prison cell)
Finn and Rachel with New Directions:
Someday I'm gonna be free, Lord!
New Directions (New Directions Girls):
Find me somebody to love
Find me somebody to love
Find me somebody to love
Find me somebody to love (Finn: Ohhhhh)
Find me (me) somebody to love
Find me (me) somebody to love (Love) (Mercedes: Heee, Oooh)
Find me (me) somebody to love (Love) (Artie: Somebody)
Find me (me) somebody to love, love, love (Finn: Oooooooh)
Find me (me) somebody to love (Love)
Find me (me) somebody to love (Love)(Rachel: Ohhhh)
Somebody, Somebody!
Somebody, Somebody! (Artie: Ooh, find me, find me, find me)
Somebody, Somebody!
Somebody, find me somebody to love
Mercedes and Rachel with New Directions:
Can anybody find me
Mercedes:
Somebody to
Love?!
New Directions:
Find me (Mercedes: Ooooh) somebody to love (Rachel: Somebody find me)
Find me (Finn: Find me) somebody to love (Rachel: Somebody find me)
Find me (Rachel: Somebody to love) somebody to love (Artie: Somebody, somebody, somebody)
Find me somebody to love (Rachel: somebody to love) (Finn: Looove)
Find me (Mercedes: Oooooh) somebody to love (Rachel: Somebody to love)
Find me (Finn: Somebody to love) somebody to love
Rachel:
Find me (New Directions: Find me)
Somebody (New Directions: Somebody)
To (New Directions: To)
Finn and Rachel with New Directions:
To love!
Trivia[]
- This is the first number where all 12 of the original members of New Directions perform together.
- It was mentioned being performed at Sectionals, although it wasn't performed onscreen.
- This is the first of nine Queen songs covered on Glee, the others being Another One Bites the Dust, Bohemian Rhapsody, Fat Bottomed Girls, We Are the Champions, Don't Stop Me Now, We Will Rock You, You're My Best Friend and I Want to Break Free.
- At Comic Con, Lea Michele said this was probably her favorite number because it was so much fun to do.
- The song has sold over 418,000 digital downloads in the US, making it the 8th best-selling Glee song of all time.
- The song debuted and peaked at #28 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.
- This song was featured in Chapter 1 of the Glee Forever! app.
- Jenna Ushkowitz says that this is her favorite cover on the show because it was so much fun to film.