Somebody's Out There

Triumph’s biggest crossover pop hit, “Somebody’s Out There” reached #27 in the US in late 1986. It was also a minor hit in Canada. After their record label’s A&R man had listened to the songs intended for The Sport Of Kings, he told Rik Emmett he didn’t consider any of them to be a viable single. So Emmett wrote, recorded and inserted “Somebody’s Out There” within a week and added it to the album before its release. Rik Emmett told Songfacts. Well, that was like a last minute thing. We’d finished the album and we still didn’t have what the record company figured was a single. The A&R man from the record company was going, “Oh, geez, what can you do?” In a week, I wrote a song, made a demo, took it in, the guys learned it, we went into the studio, we cut the bed, and we did the song. I was trying to write a pop song. My recollection is that I kind of had that melody over those chord changes, and then I think I might have heard another song on the radio that had like someone, something, somebody, somehow, some way. And I was going, “Oh, yeah, that’s a pretty good idea. Somebody’s out there somewhere, somehow, some.” So I had the list of all those compound words that start with “some.” (Laughing) I think that’s probably where that one started.

Is it fate or random chance How can I decide Are we victims of circumstance When destinies collide All the odds are against you But somehow you make it through You can rationalize it away But it all comes down to you Half our lives we spend waiting For the knock upon the door When it comes, will it be the one That I've been waiting for Somebody's out there, somewhere Waiting for someone to come their way Somebody's out there, somewhere I will somehow be somebody's someone Some day Standing in the shadows Hiding from the light Reach out in the darkness And hold on for your life All the fear of the future All the loneliness inside When the moment of truth arrives, hey You can run but you can't hide Somebody's out there, somewhere Waiting for someone to come their way Somebody's out there, somewhere I will somehow be somebody's someone Some day I can feel it inside me I've been holding on so long Something's telling me something's got to give 'Cause the feeling's way too strong, too strong Somebody's out there, somewhere Waiting for someone to come their way Somebody's out there, somewhere I will make them mine Somebody's out there, somewhere Waiting for someone to come their way Somebody's out there, somewhere I will somehow be somebody's someone Some day (somebody's out there somewhere) Some day (somebody's out there somewhere) Some day (somebody's out there somewhere) I will make them mine (somebody's out there somewhere) (Somebody's out there somewhere) Written By Rik Emmett