Album: James Taylor (1968)

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• There's something in the way she moves
  Or looks my way, or calls my name
  That seems to leave this troubled world behind
  If I'm feeling down and blue
  Or troubled by some foolish game
  She always seems to make me change my mind
  
  And I feel fine anytime she's around me now
  She's around me now
  Almost all the time
  And if I'm well you can tell she's been with me now
  She's been with me now quite a long, long time
  And I feel fine
  
  Every now and then the things I lean on lose their meaning
  And I find myself careening
  In places where I should not let me go
  She has the power to go where no one else can find me
  Yes and silently remind me
  The happiness and the good times that I know, but as I had got to know them
  
  It isn't what she's got to say
  Or how she thinks and where she's been
  To me, the words are nice, the way they sound
  I like to hear them best that way
  It doesn't much matter what they mean
  What she says them mostly just to calm me down
  
  And I feel fine anytime she's around me now
  She's around me now
  Almost all the time
  If I'm well you can tell she's been with me now
  She's been with me now quite a long, long time
  Yes and I feel fine Writer/s: James Taylor
  Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Comments: 7

• Stukka63 from St.augustineShe = heroin.
• Monica from York, MeI heard this song , played by a local musician, at a party today. It brought back wonderful memories as one of my favorite songs. I first heard and loved it on my Tom Rush album in the late 60s. A year or two later, I heard it on my J. T. album .I prefer the Tom Rush version over the songwriter's version though I absolutely love J.T.
• Graham from Edmonton, AbDid anyone ever consider that maybe you're just a little too on the nose. I get the sense that "She" is his guitar and how he feels when he plays. I'm just saying.
• Douglas from Portland, OrI thought the song was about his nurse when Taylor was being treated at McLean Hospital for his depression. The lyrics certainly suggest the woman was acting in a healing capacity.
• Annabelle from Eugene, OrTo Charles in Charlotte, NC, perhaps you didn't read the part where I stated, "This song is rumored to have been written about one of Taylor's girlfriends. Some say it was rumored to be written for Carly Simon". The key is, it was a rumor being spread around. That means, the truth nobody knows for sure!
• Charles from Charlotte, NcThere is no way the song was inspired by Carly Simon as the pair had not even met in 1968 when the demo was first recorded. JT had many girlfriends before Carly so that is likely the inspiration.
• Dave from Scottsdale, AzThis was first recorded by Tom Rush on "The Circle Game" album in 1968 (way before the Beatles released Abbey Road). That same album from 1968 featured the songs "The Circle Game" and "Urge For Going" by Joni Mitchell and "Shadow Dream Song" by Jackson Browne- the first time anyone recorded their music.

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