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R.E.M. – Leaving New York
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Leaving New York is the first single from R.E.M.’s much ballyhooed album, Around the Sun. Leaving New York, historically, is difficult to separate from 9/11, and can be considered
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R.E.M. – Leaving New York - Live in Dublin / 2005
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[Verse 1] / It's quiet now and what it brings is everything / Comes calling back, a brilliant night, I'm still awake / I looked ahead, I'm sure I saw you there / You don't need me
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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. – 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. – Auctioneer (Another Engine) - Live From Rock City, Nottingham / 1984
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[Intro] / This's another song / [Verse 1] / She didn't want to get pinned down by her prior town / Get me to the train on time, here, take this nickel, make a dime / Take this
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R.E.M. – Losing My Religion - Live From Pyramid Stage, Glastonbury Festival / 1999
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[Intro] / You people are real people, I can really tell, that's, that's the truth / I can feel you / I can hear you / I can smell you / I can taste you / I really really like it
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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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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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R.E.M. – It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) - Live From Pyramid Stage, Glastonbury Festival / 1999
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[Intro] / We’re gonna do one more song and then we’re - off into the night / I hope all of you sleep really good tonight / I hope you sleep sweet dreams / I hope each and every one
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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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R.E.M. – Man On The Moon - Live From Pyramid Stage, Glastonbury Festival / 1999
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[Verse 1] / Mott the Hoople and the Game of Life / Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah / Andy Kaufman in the wrestling match / Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah / Monopoly, Twenty-One, checkers and chess
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R.E.M. – Man On The Moon - Live From The National Bowl, Milton Keynes / 1995
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[Intro] / I've actually memorized the words to this next song so / Here they are if you want to read along / This song really doesn't need an explanation, but it's got a lot of "
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R.E.M. – Cuyahoga - Live From Pyramid Stage, Glastonbury Festival / 1999
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[Intro] / This is called "Cuyahoga", we hope you like it / [Verse 1] / Let's put our heads together / And start a new country up / The father's fathers fathers tried and erased
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R.E.M. – Undertow - Live From The National Bowl, Milton Keynes / 1995
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[Intro] / This is a water song, it's called "Undertow" / [Verse 1] / I know what I wanted / I know what I wanted / I know how I wanted this to be / You go down to the water / Drink
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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. – Pretty Persuasion - Live From Rock City, Nottingham / 1984
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[Verse 1] / It's what I want / Hurry and buy / All has been tried / Follow reason and buy / [Pre-Chorus] / Cannot wear it in this heat / It's all wrong / Try to put that on my
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R.E.M. – Perfect Circle - Live From John Peel Public Session On BBC Radio 1 / 1998
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[Intro] / Alright, we're gonna dig way back to the Pleistocene Era / Before anyone would even imagine that the twentieth century exists / To this, quite beautiful song that was
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R.E.M. – The Wake-Up Bomb - Live From Pyramid Stage, Glastonbury Festival / 1999
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[Intro] / This song goes out to Blondie / [Verse 1] / I look good in a glass pack, I look good and mean / I look good in metallic sick wraparound and blackout tease / I scud along
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R.E.M. – Wendell Gee - Live From Rock City, Nottingham / 1984
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[Verse 1] / That's when Wendell Gee / Takes a tug upon the string / That held the line of trees / Behind the house he lived in / He was reared to give respect / But somewhere down
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R.E.M. – It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) - Live From The National Bowl, Milton Keynes / 1995
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[Intro] / You're gonna have to breathe / [Verse 1] / That's great, it starts with an earthquake / Birds and snakes, an aeroplane / Lenny Bruce is not afraid / Eye of a hurricane
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R.E.M. – So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry) - Live From Rock City, Nottingham / 1984
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[Verse 1] / Did you never call? I waited for your call / These rivers of suggestion are driving me away / The trees will bend, the cities wash away / The city on the river, there
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R.E.M. – A Month of Saturdays
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[Verse 1] / Five o'clock Friday / All my work is done / I can hardly wait / Let's take the server / Let's sling it around / Let's make it taste so sweet / I want to take all the
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R.E.M. – What’s the Frequency, Kenneth? - Live from the National Bowl, Milton Keynes / 1995
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[Verse 1] / What! / "What's the frequency, Kenneth?" is your Benzedrine, ah-ha / I was brain-dead, locked out, numb, not up to speed / I thought I'd pegged you idiot's dream
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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. – I Wanted To Be Wrong - Live From St. James’s Church, London / 2004
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[Intro] / This is called "I Wanted To Be Wrong" / [Verse 1] / You know where I come from, you know what I feel / You're Yul Brynner Westworld reporting from the field / I threw it
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R.E.M. – Gardening At Night - Live From Rock City, Nottingham / 1984
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[Verse 1] / I see your money on the floor / I felt the pocket change though all / The feelings that broke through that door / Just didn't seem to be too real / Yard is nothing but
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R.E.M. – Supernatural Superserious - Live From BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge / 2008
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[Intro] / Alright, here we go / [Verse 1] / Everybody here / Comes from somewhere / But they would just as soon forget / And disguise / At the summer camp where you volunteered
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R.E.M. – Talk About The Passion - Live From Rock City, Nottingham / 1984
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[Verse 1] / Empty prayer, empty mouths / Combien reaction / Empty eyes, empty [?] / Talk about the passion / Not everyone can carry the weight of the world / Not everyone can carry
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R.E.M. – Hallelujah
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[Verse 1] / The world is an oyster, the bitter refrain / The Lord is my shepherd, I cannot stay / This blessed earth, this beautiful lamb / A new day that breaks the dawn / [Verse
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R.E.M. – Munich (Live from BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge)
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[Intro] / Eins, zwei, drei, vier / [Verse 1] / I'm so glad that I found this / I'm so glad that I did / I'm so glad that I found this / I'm so glad that I did / [Chorus] / People
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R.E.M. – Old Man Kensey - Live From Rock City, Nottingham / 1984
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[Verse 1] / Old man Kensey / Wants to be a sign painter / First, he's got to learn to read / He's going to be a clown on TV / Flexing his elbow, taut and free / (That's my folly) I
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R.E.M. – What’s The Frequency, Kenneth? - Live From Pyramid Stage, Glastonbury Festival / 1999
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[Intro] / Okay, okay, okay, okay / Whadda ya want, cowboys? / Let it! / [Verse 1] / "What's the frequency, Kenneth?" is your Benzedrine, uh-huh / I was brain-dead, locked out, numb
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R.E.M. – Star 69 - Live From Pyramid Stage, Glastonbury Festival / 1999
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[Verse 1] / You don't have to take the bar exam to see / What you've done is Ignoramus 103 / What've I got to hang my hat on, you don't have a pot to pee in / All this just to be
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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. – Man On The Moon - Live From St. James’s Church, London / 2004
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[Intro] / Here's a song you finally know / [Verse 1] / Mott the Hoople and the Game of Life / Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah / Andy Kaufman in the wrestling match / Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
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R.E.M. – (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville - Live From Rock City, Nottingham / 1984
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[Verse 1] / Looking at your watch a third time / Waiting in the station for the bus / Going to a place that's far / So far away and if that's not enough / Going where nobody says
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