To Be Someone
The Jam Lyrics
To be someone must be a wonderful thing
A famous footballer a rock singer
Or a big film star
yes, I think I would like that
To be rich and have lots of fans
Have lots of girls to prove that I'm a man
And be number one
And liked by everyone
They really dig me and I dig them
And the bread I spend
is like my fame, it's quickly diminished
And there's no more swimming in a guitar shaped pool
No more reporters at my beck and call
No more cocaine, now it's only ground chalk
No more taxis, now we'll have to walk
But didn't we have a nice time?
didn't we have a nice time?
Oh wasn't it such a fine time?
I realize I should have stuck to my guns
Instead shit out to be one of the bastard sons
And lose myself
I know it was wrong, but it's cost me a lot
And there's no more drinking when the club shuts down
I'm out on me arse with the rest of the clowns
It's really frightening without a bodyguard
So I stay confined to my lonely room
But didn't we have a nice time?
didn't we have a nice time?
Oh wasn't it such a fine time?
To be someone must be a wonderful thing
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: Paul John Weller
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punk and mod group formed in Woking, UK, in 1976 consisting of Paul Weller (vocals, guitar), Bruce Foxton (bass, vocals) and Rick Buckler (drums). The band split in 1982. The band released six albums and had 18 consecutive Top 40 hits in the United Kingdom between 1977 and 1982, including four #1 singles (Going Underground, Start!, Town Called Malice and Beat Surrender). Their singles "That's Entertainment" and "Just Who Is the Five O'Clock Hero" are the best selling import singles in UK history. Read Full Biopunk and mod group formed in Woking, UK, in 1976 consisting of Paul Weller (vocals, guitar), Bruce Foxton (bass, vocals) and Rick Buckler (drums). The band split in 1982. The band released six albums and had 18 consecutive Top 40 hits in the United Kingdom between 1977 and 1982, including four #1 singles (Going Underground, Start!, Town Called Malice and Beat Surrender). Their singles "That's Entertainment" and "Just Who Is the Five O'Clock Hero" are the best selling import singles in UK history.
The band drew upon a variety of stylistic influences over the course of their career, including 1960s beat music, soul, rhythm and blues and psychedelic rock, as well as 1970s punk and new wave. The trio was known for its melodic pop songs, its distinctly English flavour and its mod image. The band launched the career of Paul Weller, who went on to form The Style Council and later had a successful solo career. Weller wrote and sang most of The Jam’s original compositions, and he played lead guitar, using a Rickenbacker. Bruce Foxton provided backing vocals and prominent basslines, which were the foundation of many of the band’s songs, including the hits "Down in the Tube Station at Midnight", "The Eton Rifles", "Going Underground" and "Town Called Malice".
For artists called "Jam", please see http://www.last.fm/music/+noredirect/Jam.
The band drew upon a variety of stylistic influences over the course of their career, including 1960s beat music, soul, rhythm and blues and psychedelic rock, as well as 1970s punk and new wave. The trio was known for its melodic pop songs, its distinctly English flavour and its mod image. The band launched the career of Paul Weller, who went on to form The Style Council and later had a successful solo career. Weller wrote and sang most of The Jam’s original compositions, and he played lead guitar, using a Rickenbacker. Bruce Foxton provided backing vocals and prominent basslines, which were the foundation of many of the band’s songs, including the hits "Down in the Tube Station at Midnight", "The Eton Rifles", "Going Underground" and "Town Called Malice".
For artists called "Jam", please see http://www.last.fm/music/+noredirect/Jam.
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“To Be Someone” will always carry a certain meaning to me.
When I was younger me and my sister were at our airport and saw an actress, we walked up to her and asked if we could have her autograph. She looked down at us and said “no, sorry I can’t, if I give you one everybody else will want one and I’ll miss my flight” With that she walked off, but apart from us there was nobody else around her.
Years later when I was older I read that she’d died as an alcoholic in a run down flat, and I thought of this song, the lyrics could almost be describing what happened to her later in life.
Maybe if she’d remembered the people who had given her her fame when she still had it, her life wouldn’t of ended like it did.
wanada553
The entire practice of asking famous people for autographs is weird itself. U dont have the moral highground in that story. U shouldve left them alone
Tatts Kink
I don’t think they did a bad song! Supremely talented!
Gentilly Girl
I was just thinking that.
dermot51
Certainly not on this LP
James Elliott
Such a great song.
Very insightful lyrics from a very young Weller.
johnyboy66 johnyboy 66
its 2020 im now 53 & i still love this band
Simon A
Me Too
OwenWM
Im 15 and i love old british punk, just something about it that i keep coming back to
daniel canty
I'm 36, The Jam were finished before I was born, still my favourite band, nobody will convince me that there is a better combination of Weller, Foxton and Buckler.