Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Music Lyrics Explained 29. The song today is "It Had to Be
You." Okay. If somebody wants a screenshot, do it right now. Let's get right to it.
It had to be you was composed by Isham Jones and the lyrics were written by Gus Khan. Okay. There
were many covers of this song over the years. So a cover means like a remake. Somebody sings it over
and over again and a lot of famous people from such famous performers including Billy Holliday,
Bing Crosby, Doris Day, Tony Bennett, Ella Fitzgerald. Barbara Streisand and most famously
Frank Sinatra. It was also revived by Harry Connick Jr. in the 1990' s for the movie "When
Harry Met Sally." Okay. So let's get into it and again I'll explain the vocabulary as I you know,
go through the lyrics here. Let's just start. Okay. Here, here's how it goes. It had to be you.
It had to be you. I wandered around and finally found the somebody who. All right. Good. So here
when you say, it had to be you, it feels like you had no other choice. Like it was almost your
destiny to end up with this person. You... there's some things that maybe didn't almost make you want
to choose this person, but you just had to. That's kind of the feeling of what those lyrics mean.
I wandered around. To walk around casually without purpose or destination. Here he doesn't literally
walk around. He probably means that you know he went around he met lots of other women. Maybe he
dated other women, but in the end he had to choose you. He wandered around you know, until finally he
found the somebody who ... well you probably. That person you are the one that he must end up with.
Could make me be true. Could make me be blue or even be glad just to be sad thinking of you.
All right. So what he means here ... could make me be true. Sometimes it is this way for maybe a guy
maybe he falls in love with a woman and he almost wants to be a better man you know, because he's
supposed to be a better man. You know, maybe the woman could almost want to make him be a
better man. So it kind of means that way , So true meaning like real true, good, honest. Blue means
slightly sad here. Of course so, so sometimes love does that to you. It could make me be bad.
Can make me be blue or even be glad just to be sad thinking of you. So it kind of could
even maybe if they're away for a while he could be happy even being sad that he's missing the (girl )
his love I guess. All right. Let's go on. Some others I've seen. Might never be mean.
Might never be cross or try to be boss, but they wouldn't do. All right. So what does this mean.
Others meaning other girls, other women I I've seen. He probably means I've dated.
Might never be mean. Might never be mean. So maybe maybe they have a better personality than you in
this sense. That you know, because maybe this girl is mean sometimes. Might never be cross.
Cross of course it means angry. The British use it a lot , but it's a little bit of an older use
in American use. But you might still hear it that somebody could be cross or cross at you
means angry. So maybe, maybe she gets angry easily. Or try to be boss. All right.
Now there's an old use of a boss or I remember when I was a kid where it just
meant basically. All right. It meant that something was cool. But of course
here. If we say bossy, bossy means like keep telling other people what to do. So I think
that's the way he means it in this song. We try to be boss so maybe she's even a little bossy.
For nobody else gave me a thrill. With all your faults. I love you still.
It had to be you. Wonderful you. It had to be you. All right. So it gave
me a thrill. Of course means a sudden feeling of excitement or pleasure.
It gave me a thrill. With all your faults. So again he's kind of saying. Yeah. Not perfect
even though he's probably not perfect either. I love you still. So he doesn't care about your
faults. It had to be you so and then of course it kind of repeats the lyrics. Some others I've seen
might never be mean. Might never be cross or try to be boss, but they wouldn't do.
For nobody else gave me a thrill. With all your faults, I love you still. Baby it had to be you.
Wonderful you. It had to be you. And that's basically it. Okay. Anyway, I hope you got
it. I hope it was clear. I hope , I hope you enjoyed it. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.