I Could Be In Love With Someone Like You - Jason Robert Brown

My first crush on an Irish girl

I was 10 years old

And her name was Elaine

Little red head girl

Well she looked like you

But if you were 10

Which you’re clearly not

Not that you look old

But you get my-

I’ll just stop now

Okay wait cause I had a point

No I swear I did

Well, I think I did

Which is all my life

Or since I was 10

I have had a yen

For an Irish lass

Because God knows why

Like the ancient curse of the shiksa queens

Do I talk too much?

Which is not to say

That I want Elaine

Who turned out to be

When I last checked in

A republican

And a parapsychologist?

If you’ve got a four leaf clover

You could make your dreams come true

I will be your Hebrew slave

Just do the things that Irish girls do

Talk about potato famine

I begin to cry on cue

Sing about the Emerald Isle and

Get your Irish eyes to smiling

I could be in love with someone like you

(Okay yeah I just said that’s… good… no it’s great)

I just left a relationship

With a lovely girl

Named Alissa Levine

She was really great

It was all my fault

I just got upset

Cause she slept with my brother

So I made a vow not get caught up

In the dating scene

Or the whole routine

With the cousin’s friend

Or the who knows what

Like I need that shit

I’ve got marks to make

I’ve got steps to climb

It’s the perfect time

I’ve got books to write

I’ve got things to do

I go out door and bump into you

And the jig is up and my vow is through

I don’t know what I’m doing

But come in and ruin me

I will write my own Ulysses

If you’re there to show me how

Take me back to Glocca Morra

Bathe me in the river Shannon now

If you’ll be Misses O’Leary

Baby I will be your cow!

I’ll deliver shamrocks daily

Buy your Pa a new shillelagh

I could be in love with someone like

You could be my inspiration

And get me past this block

And walk me through the great unknown

You could be my true salvation

Unchain me from this rock

And keep me from being alone

Cause I’m no good at being alone

Take me to another level

Let me play in bigger halls

I will do a riverdance

As long as you keep answering my calls

Get me out of my apartment

Keep me from my empty walls

Someone hire John McCormick

Start to wearing of the green

Let me win the Irish sweepstakes

Let me take you home Kathleen

I could be in love with someone

I could be in love with someone

I could be in love with

Someone

Like you