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"Someone Like You" is a song written by Northern Irish singer and songwriter Van Morrison and recorded on his seventeenth studio album, Poetic Champions Compose (1987). It has become a wedding and movie classic and the song would subsequently furnish the framework for another of his most popular classics and love ballads, "Have I Told You Lately", that was released in 1989.[1]

In 1987 the single charted at number 28 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary in the U.S.

I've been searchin' a long time
For someone exactly like you
I've been travelling all around the world
Waiting for you to come through

Someone like you
Will make it all worthwhile
Someone like you
Keep me satisfied
Someone exactly like you

I've been travellin' a hard road
Baby, lookin' for someone exactly like you
I've been carrying my heavy load
Waitin' for the light to come shining through

Someone like you
Will make it all worthwhile
Someone like you
Keep me satisfied
Someone exactly like you

I've been doing some soul searching
Find out where you're at
I've been up and down the highway
And all kinds of foreign lands
Someone like you
Will make it all worthwhile
Someone like you
Keep me satisfied
Someone exactly like you

I've been all around the world
Marching to the beat of a different drum
But just lately I've realized
Baby, the best is yet to come

Someone like you
Will make it all worthwhile
Someone like you
Keep me satisfied
Someone exactly like you

The best is yet to come