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She Just Want To Be Lyrics
It's not that she walked away,
her world got smaller.
all the usual places,
the same destinations,
only something's changed.
it's not that she wasn't rewarded
with pomegranate afternoons
and Mingus, Chet Baker and chess.
it's not the stampeding fortune,
of prim affectations.
she's off on her own
but she knows
now is greater than the whole of the past
is greater, and now she knows
she just wants to be somewhere
she just wants to be
she just wants to be somewhere
she just wants to be.
it's not that the transparency
of her earlier incarnations
now looked back on, weren't rich
and loaded with beautiful vulnerability
and now she knows.
now is greater
and she knows that
she just wants to be somewhere
she just wants to be
She just wants to be somewhere
she just wants to be
now is greater, now is greater.
and she knows that
she just wants to be somewhere
she just wants to be
she just wants to be somewhere
she just wants to be.
it's not like if angels
could truly look down
stir up the trappings
and light on the ground.
remind us of what, when, why or who
that how's up to us, me and you.
and now is greater than the whole of the past
is greater, and now she knows that.
now she knows.
her world got smaller.
all the usual places,
the same destinations,
only something's changed.
with pomegranate afternoons
and Mingus, Chet Baker and chess.
it's not the stampeding fortune,
of prim affectations.
she's off on her own
but she knows
is greater, and now she knows
she just wants to be
she just wants to be somewhere
she just wants to be.
of her earlier incarnations
now looked back on, weren't rich
and loaded with beautiful vulnerability
and now she knows.
and she knows that
she just wants to be
She just wants to be somewhere
she just wants to be
and she knows that
she just wants to be
she just wants to be somewhere
she just wants to be.
could truly look down
stir up the trappings
and light on the ground.
remind us of what, when, why or who
that how's up to us, me and you.
and now is greater than the whole of the past
now she knows.
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I'm fairly conviced that this was written as an alternative view of "She's leaving home" by the beatles. The Beatles track looks more at the parents dispair at "her" leaving, with a hint of a deeper story "she's leaving home after living alone for so many years".
R.E.M. take it up from her side. The dissatisfaction of being bound to a simple idilic life, the lack of ambition or any need of it. This "she" wanted more from life than was available from "Mingus, Chet Baker and chess". "She" finds the strength and power to act now; the present. This ties in with the beatles song ans her departure is so unexpected and so surprising. This song justifies it from her side.
That's my analysis. But I am a bit drunk, so feed my back. I might spruce it up a bit.
AMAZING SONG! could listen to it again and again without getting sick of it.. one of the best by r.e.m!
just dunno what its actually about..
Yep it is indeed great. I think it's about her being bored with her life up to this point. She just realized that she was bored and now she realizes that there is something more.
i think its about tryin to find yourself.. "its not that she walked away, her world got smaller, all the usual places, the same destinations, only something changed" and "she just wants to be" could all be refering, shes changing to suit her but shes confused, and people are wondering why she wants to change because "its not that she wasnt rewarded.."
I think it's about a bored rich girl