I'm So Free
by Beck

Album: Colors (2017)
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  • I'm on a tangent, textbook ephemeral
    Facts are confusing me
    I'm so free now

    I'm on a one-man waiting list, I'm bored again
    I buried all my memories
    I'm so free now

    I see the silhouette of everything I thought I ever knew
    Turning into voodoo
    I'm so free now

    A panic cycle, sentimental, feel it out until you know it isn't meant for you
    I'm so free now

    I'm so free now, I'm so free now
    And the way that I walk is up to me now
    And if I breathe now, I could scream now
    You can hear me from Topeka to Belize now
    I'm gonna freeze out, these enemies out
    They never see what I got, no need to bend my knees down
    Heaven forbid, I never cared, time is running out
    Nothing new under the sun, better get down

    I'm so free, I'm so free
    I'm so free, I'm so free
    I'm so free (free from me, free from you)
    I'm so free, I'm so free
    Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
    I'm so free from you (yeah, yeah)
    I'm so free from you

    Who am I supposed to be
    In the middle of the day with no good connection?
    I'm so free now

    They try to keep me down with affliction, alpha male fell asleep in the engine
    I'm so free now

    A horizontal aspiration in the basement with a thick and digital lust for life
    I'm so free now

    I coin the phrase of the realm, let it roll into the street
    Like a token of sweet nothing
    I'm so free now

    I'm so free now, I'm so free now
    And the way that I walk is up to me now
    And if I breathe now, I could scream now
    You can hear me from Topeka to Belize now
    I'm gonna freeze out, these enemies out
    They never see what I got, no need to bend my knees down
    Heaven forbid, I never cared, time is running out
    Nothing new under the sun, better get down

    I'm so free, I'm so free
    I'm so free, I'm so free
    I'm so free (free from me, free from you)
    I'm so free, I'm so free
    I'm so free now (I'm so free from you)
    I'm so free now (I'm so free from you)
    Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
    Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

    Hey nobody's going to keep me down
    Nobody's going to keep me down
    Nobody's going to keep me down, down
    Gonna do, gonna do, gonna do what we want

    I don't want to go (nobody's gonna keep me down)
    I don't want to go (nobody's gonna keep me down)
    I don't want to go (nobody's gonna keep me down, down)
    Gonna do, gonna do, gonna do what we want

    I'm so free, I'm so free
    I'm so free

    I'm so free, I'm so free
    I'm so free, I'm so free
    I'm so free (free from me, free from you)
    I'm so free, I'm so free
    I'm so free now (I'm so free from you)
    I'm so free now (I'm so free from you)
    Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
    Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (I'm so free now) Writer/s: BECK DAVID CAMPBELL, GREGORY KURSTIN
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • AnonymousI could be wrong, but I think this song is about him leaving Scientology. The lyrics make sense to me. "A panic cycle, sentimental, feel it out until you know it isn't meant for you" - He is panicking about leaving because they are a very controlling cult, and his entire family is wrapped up in it. It's terrifying trying to leave Scientology. Sentimental, because, again, his wife and entire family are Scientologists, so it is emotionally difficult making this decision. "Feel it out until you know it isn't meant for you," He probably tried all his life to be a "good Scientologist" but had conflicts in his head about it, perhaps. Then one day, he decides it isn't meant for him, so he leaves. He's so free! "I'm so free from you," meaning, he's so free from Scientology. It's a super joyous song, and has a rebellious, yet celebratory vibe. I love it. Again, I could be wrong about this. Perhaps he wrote it about being free from something else entirely.
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