Album: Out Of Time (1991)

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• Her world collapsed early Sunday morning
  She got up from the kitchen table
  Folded the newspaper and silenced the radio
  Those creatures jumped the barricades
  And have headed for the sea, sea
  
  Ooh
  Ooh
  Those creatures jumped the barricades
  And have headed for the sea
  She began to breathe
  To breathe at the thought of such freedom
  Stood and whispered to her child, "belong"
  She held the child and whispered
  With calm, calm, "belong"
  
  Ooh
  Ooh
  Ooh
  Ooh
  She stood and whispered to her child, "belong"
  She held the child and whispered
  With calm, calm, "belong"
  
  Ooh
  Ooh
  Ooh
  Ooh
  Those barricades can only hold for so long
  Her world collapsed early Sunday morning
  She took the child held tight
  Opened the window
  A breath, this song, how long
  And knew, knew, "belong"
  Ooh
  Ooh
  Ooh
  Ooh Writer/s: Bill Berry, Michael Mills, Michael Stipe, Peter Buck
  Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 7

• Jack C. from Oregon"Belong" is a strangely elusive track. A mother and child theme is usually analogous to all of humanity. Are they being saved or doomed here?
  
  Creatures jumping barricades and heading AWAY from land implies they weren't a threat to people, unless reaching the sea causes them to mutate and get worse. Or does it drown them like lemmings? The song would make more sense in apocalyptic terms (my general impression) if barricades were protecting the mainland FROM sea monsters.
  
  There's endless speculation on this one unless the band ever admits to something concrete.
• Tim B from EnglandThis song has always conjured images of some sort of monster movie story for me, such as films like; A Quiet Place, Bird Box, Walking Dead, Cloverfield, The Last of Us, etc… a woman trapped in a house with her young child while creatures are moving around outside. The image of barricades and the use of the word creatures makes it sound alien somehow.
  
  Probably not about that at all though!
• Lukas from Pennsylvania What's with the creatures jumping the barricade? What the hell is he talking about?
• Broomy from PerthSuch a simple, but yet emotional song, I've listened to it a thousand times and everytime with tears in my eyes. Simple, but brilliant
  
• Cjsf from Space CoastThe lyrics shown for this song are for "We All Go Back To Where We Belong" (from "Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982–2011") not "Belong". The lyrics for this song are:
  
  Her world collapsed early Sunday morning
  She got up from the kitchen table
  Folded the newspaper and silenced the radio
  Those creatures jumped the barricades
  And have headed for the sea, sea
  
  Ooh
  Ooh
  Those creatures jumped the barricades
  And have headed for the sea
  She began to breathe
  To breathe at the thought of such freedom
  Stood and whispered to her child, belong
  She held the child and whispered
  With calm, calm, belong
  
  Ooh
  Ooh
  Ooh
  Ooh
  She stood and whispered to her child, belong
  She held the child and whispered
  With calm, calm, belong
  
  Ooh
  Ooh
  Ooh
  Ooh
  Those barricades can only hold for so long
  Her world collapsed early Sunday morning
  She took the child held tight
  Opened the window
  A breath, this song, how long
  And knew, knew, belong
  Ooh
  Ooh
  Ooh
  Ooh
• Mark from New York, NyFantastic song, fantastic vocals (especially MTV live version.
• Tom from Marietta, OhI love the song and the imagery of it (although I was never quite sure what it all meant), but what amazes me most about this article is that there is a word specifically for the act of throwing something out of a window.

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