R.E.M.

Released: May 14, 2001

Songwriter: Peter Buck Mike Mills (R.E.M.) Michael Stipe

Producer: R.E.M. Pat McCarthy

[Verse 1]
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 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

[Chorus]
She just wants to be somewhere
She just wants to be
She just wants to be somewhere
She just wants to be

[Verse 2]
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

[Pre-Chorus]
Now is greater
Now is greater
And she knows that

[Chorus]
She just wants to be somewhere
She just wants to be
She just wants to be somewhere
She just wants to be

[Pre-Chorus]
Now is greater
Now is greater
And she knows that

[Chorus]
She just wants to be somewhere
She just wants to be
She just wants to be somewhere
She just wants to be
She just wants to be somewhere
She just wants to be
She just wants to be somewhere
She just wants to be

[Verse 3]
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

[Outro]
Now she knows

R.E.M. were an American rock band from Athens, Georgia, formed in 1980 by singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills, and drummer Bill Berry.

Berry quit the band in April 1997, as they were getting together to record demos for the album Up. He was not replaced on a permanent basis, but the band used an assortment of drummers in his place.

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