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R.E.M. Lyrics, Songs, Albums And More
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R.E.M. Lyrics, Songs, Albums And More at SongMeanings! song lyrics, song meanings, albums, music and more.
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R.E.M. - Shiny Happy People Lyrics
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It's about communism. Like how in the pictures of the citizens of China they look happy, they are being hidden by what's happening behind closed doors. Hence, ...
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R.E.M. - Talk About The Passion Lyrics
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This song is about the crucifixion of Jesus. ... Although I did think a little bit about a Christian undertone to this song, my major interpretation of it agrees ...
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R.E.M. - Strange Currencies Lyrics
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This track is about is about questioning why the sky would choose to be blue if it had the choice to be anything else, “blue also meaning sad,” states frontman ...
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R.E.M. - You Lyrics
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This track is about is about questioning why the sky would choose to be blue if it had the choice to be anything else, “blue also meaning sad,” states frontman ...
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R.E.M. - What's the Frequency, Kenneth? Lyrics
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(Two of the best lines in the song. He compares the nonchalant faces of young responders with the cartoons in what can only be an over-analysis. Tied together, ...
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R.E.M. - Stand Lyrics
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This track is about is about questioning why the sky would choose to be blue if it had the choice to be anything else, “blue also meaning sad,” states frontman ...
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R.E.M. - The One I Love Lyrics
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I read this song as the lament of a person who DOES "love" (in his/ her own fashion) the person to whom (s/he) is singing, but is unable to avoid "keeping busy" ...
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R.E.M. - I Believe Lyrics
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Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to ...
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R.E.M. - Leave Lyrics
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This track is about is about questioning why the sky would choose to be blue if it had the choice to be anything else, “blue also meaning sad,” states frontman ...
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R.E.M. - Superman Lyrics
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This song, which is usually thought of as an optimistic 80's single about being able to do anything, is in reality a deceptive tune that is clearly about a ...
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R.E.M. - At My Most Beautiful Lyrics
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More Featured Meanings ... This song is written as the perspective of the boys in the street, as a whole, and what path they are going to choose as they get older ...
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R.E.M. - So. Central Rain Lyrics
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This is a song again about losing his religion...It is a song about religious oppression. He waited for God, for a calling. The rain washes into the river, ...
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R.E.M. - Belong. Lyrics
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This track is about is about questioning why the sky would choose to be blue if it had the choice to be anything else, “blue also meaning sad,” states frontman ...
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R.E.M. - Driver 8 Lyrics
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This song is a ballad of great loss and lament over a train that crashes into a school bus. The engineer is high on something(s) that allow him to "flee the ...
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R.E.M. - Sweetness Follows Lyrics
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A family has fallen apart, over little things, they're distant from each other. It took a funeral to realize that there's some things bigger than those petty ...
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R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe Lyrics
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The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath ...
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R.E.M. - Low Lyrics
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it means: it's all the same, day, night, experience inbetween - high and low... love is thrown in there as the thing that normally 'explains' everything - it ...
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R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts Lyrics
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What I get from this song is that if I'm hurting there is always someone out there who is hurting worse. Everyone has baggage, some just have more than others.
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R.E.M. - Country Feedback Lyrics
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I think the meaning is pretty clear. This person got really burned in a previous relationship, and because of this is unable to love and show care in his ...
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R.E.M. - Undertow Lyrics
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Religion is the constructs of men and men alone. Let it fall away with the rest of it all. You don't need heaven as some far off prize or goal just to make you ...
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R.E.M. - The Flowers Of Guatemala Lyrics
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8 Comments · The flowers cover the graves of the people who were killed by the United States-backed military regime in Guatemala. · My favorite thing in the ...
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R.E.M. - Harborcoat Lyrics
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This song (or at least a large part of it) is about the Jews in Nazi Germany. Listen carefully and you'll hear the line is actually, "they've shifted the ...
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R.E.M. - Let Me In Lyrics
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this is about kurt cobain. he died whilst the band were recording 'monster' and they even previewed some of their new songs to him, as he and Stipe were good ...
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R.E.M. - I'll Take The Rain Lyrics
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This track is about is about questioning why the sky would choose to be blue if it had the choice to be anything else, “blue also meaning sad,” states frontman ...
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R.E.M. - Tongue Lyrics
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I think it's about being in an unequal relationship and not feeling like you can escape. It screams of regret "call my name, here I come. your last ditch lay, ...
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R.E.M. - Uberlin Lyrics
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The direct meaning, that he'll pull himself trough the day, doing his work, and he'll manage somehow. But then the lonely night starts. But he reassures himself ...
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R.E.M. - You Are The Everything Lyrics
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Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to ...
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R.E.M. - Try Not To Breathe Lyrics
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It's about someone dying of old age, lying on their deathebed, telling their family not to worry when they die because "I have lived a full life, I have seen ...
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R.E.M. - Losing My Religion Lyrics
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The meaning of this song (officially, according to Mike Stipe of REM) is about unrequited love, meaning unreturned love. (the person recounting this song loves ...
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R.E.M. - Leaving New York Lyrics
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This song seems to be about changes in life, leaving the life you've grown used to and life, perhaps maturing and growing up, and reflecting on lost ...
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R.E.M. - Bang And Blame Lyrics
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While the obvious connections with suicide or alcoholism could be drawn easily, more subtly this song could be about someone who views the world through a ...
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R.E.M. - Imitation Of Life Lyrics
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This song is about fakers, and how hollow and empty their lives really are. The chorus lists things like that.....that seem sweet but really are of no real ...
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R.E.M. - Parakeet Lyrics
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I think the meaning is pretty clear. This person got really burned in a previous relationship, and because of this is unable to love and show care in his ...
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R.E.M. - Aftermath Lyrics
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It reminds me of the feelings I had after the last time I had my heart broken. You hurt so much and you feel like the pain of losing this person would kill you ...
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R.E.M. - Little America Lyrics
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They are singing about the future and a past that was fading. Who will tend the farm museums and dust today's belongings? The insight might come from rapid and ...
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R.E.M. - Walk Unafraid Lyrics
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This track is about is about questioning why the sky would choose to be blue if it had the choice to be anything else, “blue also meaning sad,” states frontman ...
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R.E.M. - Nightswimming Lyrics
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This song is about memories, lost love, lost youth, shadows and light, warmth and water on a moonlit night. Water is where we came from. To go back to it, naked ...
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R.E.M. - Lotus Lyrics
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This track is about is about questioning why the sky would choose to be blue if it had the choice to be anything else, “blue also meaning sad,” states frontman ...
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R.E.M. - The Great Beyond Lyrics
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he's saying he couldn't believe how naive he was to try to convince this person he was sincere. the song is about doing whatever you can to keep a doomed ...
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R.E.M. - Hope Lyrics
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I believe this song was written for a friend of the narrator who is dying of cancer. The friend is suffering and wants to have fun and enjoy his life like ...
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R.E.M. - King Of Comedy Lyrics
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Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to ...
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R.E.M. - Drive Lyrics
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It even starts with it....smack...crack...think about it. The whole song can describe the life of a drug addict, who is spiralling downwards from what used to ...
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R.E.M. - (Don't Go Back To) Rockville Lyrics
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this song is about not going back to the old things that you used to know just because they are conforting. instead look forward because life is always changing ...
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R.E.M. - I've Been High Lyrics
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This is about a person who wants to live his "life on high", to feel the constant rush and kick of happiness, a person who wants to do everything and travel ...
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R.E.M. - Man On The Moon Lyrics
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The song is about questioning. Andy Kaufman built his career on people never knowing whether he was being sincere or putting them on. Many people think Andy's ...
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R.E.M. - Perfect Circle Lyrics
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The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath ...
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R.E.M. - The Wake-up Bomb Lyrics
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One day you might realize that all you have done has been wrong and / or worthless. This song is about a person who has realized that and wants to leave his ...
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