This song has Melanie looking back at some aspects of her life, one of them being her musical career. If we look at it from this viewpoint, then "Nobody beside me" means that she is now a solo artist (no longer a part of a group), a status which she enjoys. She is finally free to be herself and spontaneous ("back in my own skin"), the artificially created Sporty Spice persona ("someone they want me to be") having been ditched for good. Personal happiness is found in a sunny day-by-day existence free from making elaborate schemes for the future or worrying if the new record will sell well ("I'm here going nowhere"). She loves being "a big fish in a little pond" ; if her commercial success is now diminished, it was a small price to pay for the personal freedom she attained. And yet again, we can ignore all of this and view the song simply as a celebration of being a single woman (or being finally free from an eating disorder, for that matter).
"That's all behind me now" – a similar idea of breaking up with the past and not looking back reappears in many songs on "Reason", it is almost a common theme of the album.
This song has Melanie looking back at some aspects of her life, one of them being her musical career. If we look at it from this viewpoint, then "Nobody beside me" means that she is now a solo artist (no longer a part of a group), a status which she enjoys. She is finally free to be herself and spontaneous ("back in my own skin"), the artificially created Sporty Spice persona ("someone they want me to be") having been ditched for good. Personal happiness is found in a sunny day-by-day existence free from making elaborate schemes for the future or worrying if the new record will sell well ("I'm here going nowhere"). She loves being "a big fish in a little pond" ; if her commercial success is now diminished, it was a small price to pay for the personal freedom she attained. And yet again, we can ignore all of this and view the song simply as a celebration of being a single woman (or being finally free from an eating disorder, for that matter). "That's all behind me now" – a similar idea of breaking up with the past and not looking back reappears in many songs on "Reason", it is almost a common theme of the album.