Genius Lyrics
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Ariana Grande – R.E.M.
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On “R.E.M.” Ariana Grande sings over a dreamy Pharrell-produced instrumental. She talks about how she does not want to wake up from a dream in which she fell in love with someone.
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R.E.M. – Losing My Religion
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“Losing My Religion” was released as a single in February 1991, in advance of R.E.M.’s album, Out of Time, where it appeared as the second track.
It became R.E.M’s biggest hit
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R.E.M. – Everybody Hurts
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“Everybody Hurts” seems kind of saccharine and overly heartfelt because it was meant to be. In an interview, Michael Stipe mentioned that the song was meant to be a genuine message
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R.E.M. – Laughing
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[Verse 1] / Laocoön and her two sons / Pressured storm, try to move / No other more emotion bound / Martyred, misconstrued / [Chorus] / Lighted / In a room / Lanky room / Lighted
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R.E.M. – (Don’t Go Back to) Rockville
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This song was written in 1980 by Mike Mills to convince his then-girlfriend Ingrid Schorr, a student at UGA, not to return to her hometown of Rockville, Maryland for the summer
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R.E.M. – Bad Day
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The song was originally known as PSA and was first played live in early 1986. But it was not released until 2003, on the collection In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003
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¡MAYDAY! – R.E.M
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Album: “Take me to your leader”
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R.E.M. – Accelerate
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[Verse 1] / Sinking fast, the weights chained to my feet / No time to argue with belief / I'm not alone, a thousand others dropping / Faster than me / What put me here? Nothing to
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R.E.M. – Swan Swan H
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Technically the Second to last song (though it is listed as the last) on R.E.M.’s fourth studio album.
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R.E.M. – Orange Crush
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The lead single of R.E.M.’s Green is politically-charged. The lead singer, Michael Stipe, explained that the song is about a young man from America who played football, leaving to
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R.E.M. – Cuyahoga
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[Verse 1] / Let's put our heads together / And start a new country up / Our father's father's father tried / Erased the parts he didn't like / Let's try to fill it in / Bank the
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Big K.R.I.T. – REM
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[Hook] / I don't know about my dreams / I don't know about my dreams / All that I know is / I'm falling, falling falling, falling / Might as well fall in / I don't know about my
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R.E.M. – Nightswimming
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This song is a nostalgic look back by Stipe to a childhood spent on the secluded shores of lakes and ponds. For many American teens, these secluded shores serve as one of the few
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JOHNNASCUS – REM
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[Intro] / Mr. Chambers / [Verse 1] / My limbs are chained, they are paralyzed / I can only move my eyes / And, I just see the shadow figures lurking in my room / Transform and
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MOTHICA – R.E.M.
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[Verse 1] / Think I'm gonna sabotage with no warning / Crash and burn, say something I'll regret / Know I shouldn't fall back into old patterns / Compared myself to every girl you'
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R.E.M. – The One I Love
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The first hit single (reached #9) of the American alternative rock group. The title and the beginning of the lyrics imply that it is a love song; however, it’s anything but…
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R.E.M. – Camera
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This song is about Carol Levy, the band’s frequent photographer and girlfriend at the time of Michael Stipe’s, who died in a car accident while the band was touring.
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R.E.M. – Drive
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R.E.M.’s classic Automatic For the People opens with one of their finest songs. Like most R.E.M songs, the lyrics are cryptic. Mike Mills said that Drive is “telling kids to take
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R.E.M. (Ft. Natalie Merchant) – Photograph
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[Verse 1: Michael Stipe and Natalie Merchant] / I found this photograph / Underneath broken picture glass / Tender face of black and white / Beautiful, a haunting sight / Looked
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R.E.M. – Exhuming McCarthy
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McCarthy refers to Joseph McCarthy, an US senator in the face of a period in the fifties. This was in the Cold War. He made claims that there were a lot of Communists and Soviet
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Sammy J & Randy – R.E.M. (Lullaby)
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[Sammy J] / Goodnight Randy / Rest your sleepy head / [Randy] / Goodnight Sammy / Climb into your bed / [Both] / And you'll float away / Like a marshmallow cloud in the sky / Watch
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R.E.M. – Fall on Me
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According to Michael Stipe, “Fall on Me” “…is not about acid rain. It’s a general oppression song about the fact that there are a lot of causes out there that need a song that says
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R.E.M. – Electrolite
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The closing track on 1996’s New Adventures in Hi-Fi, Electrolite is a love song for the City of Angels and the 20th century.
Michael Stipe said in an interview that he had to be
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R.E.M. – What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?
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“What’s the Frequency Kenneth?” is an alternative rock hit by R.E.M. Released on September 5, 1994, it was the first single from the band’s ninth album Monster and signaled a
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R.E.M. – The Great Beyond
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“The Great Beyond” was written for the 1999 film Man on the Moon starring Jim Carrey, and was released as a single from the film’s soundtrack album. The film took its name from R.E
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R.E.M. – The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
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“The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite” explains that the singer lives on a floor with a payphone at the end of a hall. it’s broken to the extent you cannot call out so someone has to keep
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R.E.M. – Leave
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The song can be considered a kind of preview to R.E.M.’s subsequent album Up as it takes on an arguably electronic element, a blaring siren that permeates almost all of the track
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R.E.M. – Ignoreland
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This song is pretty explicitly about the band’s anger at the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. Multiple references are made to Republican politics (“trickle
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R.E.M. – So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)
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This is the third track from R.E.M.’s second album, Reckoning. It was the first single from the album, released in May 15, 1984, and reached 85 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart.
The
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