Neil finn, “she will have her way,”
from: try whistling this, 1998
“I might be old but I’m someone new she said
I’m so sore that I could cry always
In the night lay your tired arms
She will have her way
Somehow I will still believe her
She’s the life I’ve been frightened of seems like
Deathly silence and especially the dark
Feels like I am heavy and my spirit has died
She will have her way
Somehow I will still believe her
She will have her way
One day I will come back
Still no end in sight
Though I travel far and wide
A dying man is doing time
Thinker, soldier terrified
And she will have her way
Somehow I will still believe her
She will have her way
One day I will come back
She will have her way
When the time has gone away
She will have her way
She will have her way
But not before time
She will have her way”
I don’t know if there was just something in the water in New Zealand that affected its musical outpourings during the otherwise vacuous 1980’s. There were some high watermarks especially in the vocals department with his brother Tim in the Crowded House band. Today’s gem however is an anthem to fostering the independence of your significant other. If you have no SO, then treat yourself to the beauties of your freedom today. I find it to be a magnificently soulful statement that really hangs together.
