Sometimes the song of the summer isn’t the radio hit you crank out your car stereo, but the one that soundtracks late nights of summer lovin’. Jason Mraz’s new single sounds like it could certainly be the latter: The hushed ballad “Love Someone” is choked full of tender lyrics, but won’t awaken anyone when you’re playing it in the wee hours of the morning. Opening with a reverberating sitar, acoustic strums accompany the singer/songwriter’s soft love poems: “Love is a funny thing / Whenever I give it, it comes back to me / And it’s wonderful to be giving with my whole heart / As my heart receives.” The track continues to grow with intensity, with more lively guitar and a choir backing Mr. A-Z on the subsequent verses and choruses. Recalling hits like “I’m Yours” and “I Won’t Give Up,” the chorus keeps the lyrics simple (“When you love someone / Your heartbeat beats so loud / When you love someone / Your feet can’t feel the ground”) with a dose of adorable imagery that never gets too cheesy (“Shining stars all seem to congregate around your face / When you love someone”).
Jason Mraz – Love Someone
Jason Mraz teamed up with the all-female Folk group, Raining Jane, for the first single from his Yes! album. He wrote it with the lady quartet while walking down a dirt road in Virginia with a small herd of goats. “We all grabbed an instrument and we’re walking down the road just making things up,” Mraz told Radio.com. “That’s really what songwriting is. It’s taking risks and making things up and seeing what sticks. “It was an observation of how wonderful love is,” he added. “When you give it away it comes back to you immediately. It really is what gives us life.” Songfacts®.
Jason Mraz – Love Someone Lyrics:
Love is a funny thing
Whenever I give it, it comes back to me
And it’s wonderful to be
Giving with my whole heart
As my heart receives
Your love
Oh, ain’t it nice tonight we’ve got each other
And I am right beside you
More than just a partner or a lover
I’m your friend
When you love someone
Your heartbeat beats so loud
When you love someone
Your feet can’t feel the ground
Shining stars all seem
To congregate around your face
When you love someone
It comes back to you
And love is a funny thing
It’s making my blood flow with energy
And it’s like an awakened dream
As what I’ve been wishing for, is happening
And it’s right on time
Oh ain’t it nice this life, we’ve got each other
And I am right beside you
More than just a partner or a lover
I’m your friend
When you love someone
Your heartbeat beats so loud
When you love someone
Your feet can’t feel the ground
Shining stars all seem
To congregate around your face
When you love someone
When you love someone
We’re gonna give ourselves to love tonight
Lifting up to touch the starlight
And we will savor every second
We suspend together
You and I will. You and I will
You and I will
When you love someone
Your heartbeat beats so loud
When you love someone
Your feet can’t feel the ground
Shining stars all seem
To congregate around your face
When you love someone
It comes back to you.
