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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. – Fall on Me (Athens Demo)
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[Verse 1] / When it rain, rains, let the children reign / The builder's ball is winding thin / Your skeleton chin / Buy the sky and sell the sky and tell the sky and tell the sky
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R.E.M. – Fall On Me Music Video - Background Lyrics
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[Intro] / NINE / 8 / 7 / SIX / 5 / 4 / 3 / BURY MAGNETS / SWALLOW THE RAPTURE / LETS GATHER FEATHERS / [Verse 1] / THERES THE PROBLEM / FEATHERS IRON / BARGAIN BUILDINGS / WEIGHTS
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R.E.M. – Fall On Me - Live From Utrecht, Holland / 1987
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[Verse 1] / There’s a problem, feathers, iron / Bargain buildings, weights and pulleys / Feathers hit the ground before the weight can leave the air / [Bridge] / Buy the sky and
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R.E.M. – Fall On Me (Unplugged, Live 1991)
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[Intro, spoken] / This may well be my favorite song in the R.E.M. catalog, and here it is / [Verse 1: Michael Stipe] / There's the problem, feathers, iron / Bargain buildings
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R.E.M. – Fall on Me Samples
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See all of “Fall on Me” by R.E.M.’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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R.E.M. – Fall on Me Live Versions
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See all of “Fall on Me” by R.E.M.’s live versions
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R.E.M. – Fall On Me - Live From Pyramid Stage, Glastonbury Festival / 1999
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[Intro] / Welcome to the wonderful weekend-long life experience known as summer camp for adults / This is Glastonbury, it's Friday night / You are here, you have been here most of
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R.E.M. – Fall On Me (Live from London)
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[Verse 1] / There's the problem, feathers, iron / Bargain buildings, weights and pulleys / Feathers hit the ground / Before the weight can leave the air / [Pre-Chorus 1] / Buy the
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R.E.M. – Falls to Climb
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[Verse 1] / I'll take the position / Assume the missionary part / You work by committee / You had me pegged from the start / I'll be pounce pony / Phoney maroney / Pony before the
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Death Cab for Cutie – Fall On Me
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[Verse 1] / There's the problem, feathers, iron / Bargain buildings, weights and pulleys / Feathers hit the ground / Before the weight can leave the air / [Pre-Chorus] / Buy the
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Song Lyrics & Knowledge - Genius
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R.E.M.'s Fall On Me music video isn't much of a visual spectacle, but it does lend insight into the lyrics of the song with its use of text onscreen.
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R.E.M. – Sweetness Follows - Live From Pyramid Stage, Glastonbury Festival / 1999
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[Intro] / This is me and Peter's favorite song, grab yourself a partner and start to cry / [Verse 1] / Readying to bury your father and your mother / What did you think when you
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Simone Rem – Tell Me Why
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[Verse 1] / What’s up / Tell me why you bother me, you know it ain’t enough / Tryna hit my phone again, tryna hit me up / Saying that you fell again ‘cause you fell out of love
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R.E.M. – Welcome To The Occupation - Live From Utrecht, Holland / 1987
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[Verse 1] / Hang your collar up inside / Hang your dollar on me / Listen to the water still / Listen to the cause where you are / [Chorus 1] / Fed and educated / Primitive and wild
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R.E.M. – Texarkana
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The title is a reference to the city of Texarkana (located on the border of Texas and Arkansas), originally mentioned in the chorus before it was changed.
Mike Mills sings lead
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R.E.M. – Beat A Drum (Unplugged, Live 2001)
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[Verse 1] / The sun reflected in / The back of my eye / I knocked my head against the sky / The dragonflies are busy buzzing me / A seahorse as if we were in the sea / [Verse 2
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R.E.M. – Feeling Gravitys Pull - Live From Utrecht, Holland / 1987
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / I fell asleep and read / Read the scene where gravity is pulling me around / Ships sway and rivers shift / Oceans form and mountains drift / It's
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R.E.M. – Walk Unafraid - Live From Pyramid Stage, Glastonbury Festival / 1999
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[Intro] / Following along the same theme, I would like to urge each and every one of you to walk unafraid / Here we go / [Verse 1] / When the sun comes up, and the moon goes down
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Spotify – This Is R.E.M.
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1. Losing My Religion / 2. Everybody Hurts / 3. It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) / 4. The One I Love - Remastered 2012 / 5. Shiny Happy People / 6. Man On
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R.E.M. – Strange Currencies - Live From The National Bowl, Milton Keynes / 1995
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[Intro] / Alright, you're in high school and you got bad hair and bad skin and nobody wants to go out with you, and you don't have a date to the high school prom and this is your
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R.E.M. – Finest Worksong - Live From Utrecht, Holland / 1987
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[Verse 1] / The time to rise has been engaged / You're better best rearrange / I'm talking here, to me alone / I listen to the finest worksong / [Chorus] / Your finest hour / Your
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R.E.M. – Find The River (Unplugged, Live 2001)
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[Verse 1] / Hey now, little speedyhead / The read on the speed-meter says / You have to go to task in the city / Where people drown and people serve / Don't be shy, you're just
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R.E.M. – Electrolite (Unplugged, Live 2001)
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[Intro, spoken] / One, two, three, four / [Verse 1] / Your eyes are burning holes through me / I'm gasoline / I'm burning clean / Twentieth century, go to sleep / You're Plasticine
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R.E.M. – Bad Day - Live From Mark and Lard On BBC Radio 1 / 2003
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[Verse 1] / A public service announcement followed me home the other day / I paid it never mind, go away / Shit so thick you could stir it with a stick / Free Teflon whitewashed
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R.E.M. – Crush With Eyeliner - Live From Pyramid Stage, Glastonbury Festival / 1999
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[Verse 1] / I know you / I know you've seen her / She's a sad tomato / She's three miles of bad road / Walking down the street / Will I never meet her? / She's a real woman-child
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Sacramentum – Darkness Falls for Me (Far Away from the Sun, Pt. 2)
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In a land of clouded dreams I travel / Riding winds over ancient paths / Soft melancholy voices whisper / Over places where no one ever laughed / Cold icewinds sweeps my weightless
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R.E.M. – Losing My Religion - Live From Into The Night On BBC Radio 1 / 1991
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[Intro] / One, two, three, four / One two- / [Verse 1] / Oh, life / Is bigger / It's bigger than you / And you are not me / The lengths that I will go to / The distance in your
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R.E.M. – Tongue - Live From Pyramid Stage, Glastonbury Festival / 1999
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[Verse 1] / Call my name, here I come / Ninety to nothing, watch me run / You call / I am ashamed to say / Ugly girls know their fate / Anybody can get laid / You want a room with
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R.E.M. – 9-9 / Hey Diddle Diddle / Feeling Gravity’s Pull - Live From Rock City, Nottingham / 1984
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[Intro] / Steady repetition is a compulsion mutually reinforced / Now what does that mean? / Is there a just contradiction? Nothing much / Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the
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R.E.M. – Bang And Blame - Live From The National Bowl, Milton Keynes / 1995
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[Intro] / Here's another song / [Verse 1] / If you could see yourself now, baby / It's not my fault / You used to be so in control / You're going to roll right over this one / Just
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R.E.M. – Radio Free Europe - Live From Rock City, Nottingham / 1984
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[Verse 1] / Decide yourself if radio's gonna stay / Reason, it could polish up the gray / Put that, put that, put that up your wall / That this isn't nothing at all / [Pre-Chorus 1
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R.E.M. – Walk Unafraid - Live From John Peel Public Session On BBC Radio 1 / 1998
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[Intro] / We're gonna do a couple more songs / This is my favorite song off the new record / It's called "Walk Unafraid", here we go / [Verse 1] / As the sun comes up, as the moon
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