Smithereens, The - A Girl Like You Lyrics

These dudes had a solid guitar sound. Always enjoy it!

One of the best bands to come out of New Jersey!

The birth of grunge...no credit tho...Blood and Roses....Kurt was paying attention to MTV...Pat Di Nizio is the real grandfather

I thought Neil Young was!

I don't disagree with this statement.

there was a classic 1960's band from Britten named the Smithereens.

Nothing like a rickenbacker with distortion!!!!

Hiip-hop is my shit but this shit is pretty cool. Even with that head of the satanic church looking motherfuker singing the song is off da hook.

listening right now in 2019.

It's been 2 years since he passed RIP Pat.

In my opinion rock music today doesn't come close to touching songs like this one.

This song reminds me of all the time I spent working in the shit holes of New Jersey. - God I miss those days.

It's too bad they didn't have any fun making this video. So serious!

When i first heard this song i thought it is from early 90s but no its from 80s their sound was ahead of time
What a song!!!! Love it!!

One of THE biggest hits ever. But, hey Smithereens, here's a novel idea: why dont you include a super hot girl in the video? You know, a girl like HER? Just sayin'
Saludos amigos

What a great song!

Is anybody else tired of the person who always asks if you're still listening to a song on youtube in whatever year it is, in an attempt to pander for a thumbs up so they feel better about their boring life?

Great songs will live forever...

Best of Rock listen here :
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtqLE-k-bmHLX2Y8lN-7NE61nZAhLLNno
https://www.deezer.com/hr/playlist/6383461284

I guess 459 skin flute an bag pipe players didn't like this tune!

I loved the hell out of these guys ! They just played great rock. In 2019 I'm still listening. Thanks dudes !! 😎

Awesome.

Greetings from Cleveland ohio2019

I see you girl 😉

Love the song i seen these concert in 94

That jam is pumpin!

This song makes the 80s top song list!

Gen X is the last generation to feel anything.

My first concert

The 449 people who thumbed down on this video must be bots on this epic group

Cranking this through my 6x9 Pioneer speakers and Alpine receiver and amp. Rock steady boys!

Love this. Real music.✌ ❤

🙋🏼‍♀️

Really reminds me of cheap trick a lot somehow.....

What happened to this band (The Smithereen's), they werent "great" but they had some good tunes

Love it!!

Straight ahead rock n roll!

Great bass

This song is bad ass my hands are definitely up.

carteret, represent.

Here in October 2019 hell yes

Right on Jamie !

I remember the 70s with beatnick callar shirts.A Beatnick was different then Hippies. Youll have a fight on your hands HHaa. still listening in Oct. 2019. Love!

Real Music. others pay attention.

The song blows the smithereens out of today's music!

Few bands that rocked the Rikenbaker

I heard somewhere that Belinda Carlisle (Go-Go's) sang back up on this song ???

She sang on a song entitled "Blue Period".  The woman here is Maria Vidal.

This is one of the greatest rock and roll songs of all time. So happy to see 2+ million views. I was very luck to have a dad who showed me this song because I have never heard it anywhere else other than his house. This kicks ass I rarely feel this good when I hear music these days

This song reminds me of my early 20's.

One of the Most Underrated Bands from Our Times !!!!

Miss you Pat.

I was stationed in san diego in the navy and this was one of my favorite cassettes. Yes, cassette tapes. our music was limited to what we could afford. Smithereens any day....

WHAT A COOL SONG GIRL LIKE YOU BY THE SMITHEREENS


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LwjD8z2mOg


I used to travel in the shadows
And I never found the nerve to try and walk up to you
But now I am a man and I know that there's no time to waste
There's too much to lose
Girl, you say anything at all, and you know that you can call
And I'll be right there for you
First love, heartbreak, tough luck, big mistake
What else can you do

I'll say anything you want to hear
I'll see everything through
I'll do anything I have to do
Just to win the love of a girl like you
A girl like you

People talk and people stare
Tell them I don't really care
This is the place I should be
And if they think it's really strange
For a girl like you to be in love with someone like me
I wanna tell them all to go to hell
That we're doing very well without them you see
That's just the way it is and they will see
I am yours and you are mine the way it should be

I'll say anything you want to hear
I'll see everything through
I'll do anything I have to do
Just to win the love of a girl like you

A girl like you
A girl like you
A girl like you

Now if I seem a little wild
There's no holding back
I'm trying to get a message to you
I won't take anything from anyone
I won't walk and I won't run, I believe in you
London, Washington, anywhere you are I'll run
Together we'll be
Inside, outside, got my pride
I won't let him take you from me

I'll say anything you want to hear
I'll see everything through
I'll do anything I have to do
Just to win the love of a girl like you

A girl like you
A girl like you
A girl like you
A girl like you
A girl like you

I'll say anything
I'll take anything
I'll say anything
Almost anything except goodbye

I'll say anything
I'll take anything
I'll say anything
Almost anything except goodbye

love it

Just too good...why werent these guys better regarded???They are seriously brilliant. Only just discivered them.Why arent they up there with Baby Animals, Black Sabbath, Aerosmith, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, Guns n Roses, ELO, Pink Floyd, Little River Band etc etc....???George Cosentino, Perth West Australia. 10/10/19

What a sound !....Always loved dezzz boyz.

I was jamming this song loudly one day and a girl in a car next to mine was tapping her steering wheel to the rythim of this jam song!She smiled and I took off when the light turned green...one badazz song my friends

Steve Jobs sings

How do I know this song? Was it on a movie or something?

this band rocks any year...2019

Thank you for this post. Brings back a lot of memories.

Such great music...those were good days.

The Marshall amps were the end of their sound. I saw them and they were just loud loud loud. Rickenbacker and Fender Twins+ pure sound.

Never realised how much fun this vid' was.

Al on lead guitar...

This song was so ahead of its time. It was all (enter prefix here) metal @ the time and these guys were way up ahead waiting for the music world to catch up.

Great band, lame video. This is what killed them.

The yr was 91? 92? Forgive me I was stoned, but this cut! Pure unadulterated rock n fuckin roll... nothing more nothing less....damn I'm old...now it's all over dubs n bullshit

Love this song. Fun video. Female vocalist would've been nice at the end tho.

I'm not a big Smithereens fan, but when THIS song was released I fell in love with everything about this song: the vocals, the hooks, the groove, the guitar riffs, I dropped everything to repeat-play this song through my cassette walkman Over and Over again. I was stationed in Berlin (US Army Berlin Brigade) when this album came out and I picked it up just for this song alone. So sad we don't hear good music like THIS anymore; it needs a rebirth!

This is like from over 30 years ago. Excellent tune.,

Such a badass song

Ok I can't member... was this released in 87?

My early twenties

Still strong in 2019!🙋‍♂️

Yes, one of my fave early 90s songs.

just found a gem never heard this before, but I can surely "dig it".

Holy crap I didn't know anton levey sang for them

I can never get tired of listening to this song or so many of the others that this band has done. these guys rocked.

They had fun playing good music back then.

This band got their due. Wish we could have heard more from them.

He had a van dyke before his time.

Steve Jobs got his whole schick from Pat DiNizio

Never realized they were playing Ricks in this song

That song is for very special girls and don't come along very often

kaitlin douglas ed
scott sharpest tool in the shed
billys best man dead

Love it!

not huge on lead guitar...I can do itt...I don't wanna
\I am trghe low end shit that blows ur mind...that's me
u thiunk thesed guys scare me?

I know these guys

Clean asf. Sounds like it was cut yesterday

Awesome band that never got the recognition they deserved. RIP Pat.

you can have the trash,,

Definitely the best band to come out of New Jersey, I remember seeing them at a roach infested club in New Haven way back in 80 or 81.They were the bomb diggity!

Very good album!

I have the girl like me . How lucky am I?

When it first came out a friend gave me this album for Christmas,he roxxx and so do the Smithereens

To the 425 people that gave this a thumbs down - GET YOUR HEAD EXAMINED ASAP!

Totally underrated song and band.

A great band that always rocked .

Fffantastic sexy ass song and dudes!

And if they think it's very strange... Yea!! Just to win the love of a girl like you!! oh yea...