That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be Lyrics

Lyric discussion by riccaroni31 

Cover art for That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be lyrics by Carly Simon

I feel like she's settling. She wants to be free, maybe a little selfish, but instead settles for what is expected of her. I imagine her to be older and people are expecting her to settle down and start a family. This is how I feel, I'm at an age where a husband and family are expected of me. I imagine one day I will have to settle and do what is expected of me.

I don't think the woman in the song is necessarily older. In fact, I think she's a young woman just out of college, just out of her teens, and she wants to choose a job field and have her own place and socialize with a lot of company before she does the wifey-mommy thing -- or maybe even bypass the wifey-mommy thing entirely and live her life as a single working woman. Remember, this song was written at a time where marriage and parenthood and "settling down" was what being an adult was all about and if one chose to...

@riccaroni31 At this moment I read your comment I see that 8 years have passed by. I can’t help but wonder what happened. Did you get married, have children? If so, is it a happy life?