She Just Wants to Be [Live Version] [Museum TV/Radio] - R.E.M.

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

Of mingus, chet baker and chess.

It's not stampeding fortune,

Or 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

It's not that 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

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.