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R.E.M. – Sweetness Follows
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[Verse 1] / Readying to bury your father and your mother / What did you think when you lost another? / I used to wonder why did you bother / Distanced from one, blind to the other
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R.E.M. – Sweetness Follows (Live in Cincinnati, October 27, 2004)
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[Verse 1] / Readying to bury your father and your mother / What did you think when you lost another? / I used to wonder why did you bother / Distanced from one, blind to the other
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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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Dashboard Confessional – Sweetness Follows
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Readying to bury your father and your mother / What did you think when you lost another? / I used to wonder why did you bother / Distanced from one, blind to the other? / Listen
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The Anchoress – Sweetness Follow
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Readying to bury your father and your mother / What did you think when you lost another? / I used to wonder why did you bother / Distanced from one, blind to the other / Listen
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R.E.M. – Cello Scud (Demo)
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[Intro] / 1, 2, 3, 4... / [Verse 1] / Readying to bury your father and your mother / What could you care when you take another? / I used to wonder why did you bother / Distanced
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R.E.M. – Wichita Lineman (Live / Houston, TX / 9/15/95)
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I am a lineman for the county / And I drive the main road / Searchin' in the sun for another overload / I hear you singing in the wires / I can hear you through the whine / And the
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R.E.M. – Nola-4/26/10
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[Instrumental]
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R.E.M. – Redhead Walking
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[Verse 1] / Out there are silver-tressed darlings / And raven-maned delights / When ginger hair gets all fired up / She beats them in the night / [Refrain] / That redhead walking
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R.E.M. – Love is All Around (Live)
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[Chorus 1] / I feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my toes / Well love is all around me and so the feeling grows / It's written on the wind, it's everywhere I go / So if you really
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R.E.M. – Funtime (Live in Athens, 1992)
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(Fun) hey baby, we like your lips / (Fun) hey baby we like your pants / All aboard for funtime / (Fun) hey, I feel lucky tonight / (Fun) I'm gonna get stoned and run around / All
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R.E.M. – You Are the Everything (Live in Greensboro, 1989)
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[Verse 1] / Sometimes I feel like I can't even sing / (Say, say, the light) I'm very scared for this world, I'm very scared for me / (Say, say, the light) Eviscerate your memory
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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. – Man-Sized Wreath (Live from London)
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[Verse 1] / Turn on the TV and what do I see? / A pageantry of empty gestures all lined up for me - wow! / I'd have thought by now we would be ready to proceed / But a tearful hymn
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R.E.M. – That Someone Is You (Live at Hansa Studios)
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With the restraint / Of New Order covers / Young Marble Giants / I sat... quietly, waiting... / For someone else to make the first move / Someone else to make the first move / That
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R.E.M. – Yellow River
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So long boy, you can take my place / Got my papers, I've got my pay / So pack my bags and I'll be on my way / To Yellow River / Put my gun down, the war is won / Fill my glass high
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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. – Sponge
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[Intro] / One, two, ready, go / [Verse 1] / Pleasure is melting like chocolate / My blue ribbon gumption is gone / All my gravy must have soaked into something / [Chorus] / And the
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R.E.M. – Houston (Live in London)
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[Verse] / If the storm doesn't kill me the government will / I've got to get that out of my head / It's a new day today and the coffee is strong / I've finally got some rest / So a
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R.E.M. – Living Well is the Best Revenge (Live from London)
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[Verse 1] / It's only when your poison spins into the life you'd hoped to live / That suddenly you wake up in a shaking panic / Now / You set me up like a lamb to slaughter / Garbo
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R.E.M. – Letter Never Sent (Live at the Olympia)
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[Verse 1: Michael Stipe] / It's been pretty simple so far / Vacation in Athens is calling me / And knock, knock, knock on wood / I thought I'd left you behind / [Chorus: Michael
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R.E.M. – (Don't Go Back to) Rockville (Live in Oslo NRK P1 National Radio, October 25, 2003)
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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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R.E.M. – Harborcoat (Live at the Olympia)
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[Verse 1] / They crowded up to Lenin with their noses worn off / A handshake is worthy, if it's all that you've got / Metal shivs on wood pushed through our back / There's a
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R.E.M. – Everybody Hurts - Live From Pyramid Stage, Glastonbury Festival / 1999
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[Verse 1] / When your day is long / And the night, the night is yours alone / And you think you've had too much / Of this life, well, hang on / [Chorus] / Don't let yourself go / '
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R.E.M. – Horse to Water (Live from London)
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[Verse 1] / I could have kept my head down / I might have kept my mouth shut / I should have held my own / You lead a horse to water and you watch him drown / [Verse 2] / You're
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R.E.M. – Favorite Writer
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In Corsica the engines blew / Your favorite writer died / In a car, in a crash / Died in a fire imagine that / In a car, in a crash / Die in a fire imagine that / Engine, engineer
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R.E.M. – Out In The Country
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Whenever I need to leave it all behind / Or feel the need to get away / I find a quiet place / Far from the human race / Out in the country / Before the breathing air is gone
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R.E.M. – Supernatural Superserious (Live from London)
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[Verse 1] / Everybody here / Comes from somewhere / That they would just soon forget / And disguise / At the summer camp where you volunteered / No one saw your face / No one saw
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R.E.M. – Shiny Happy People (Hip Mix)
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[Intro] / Shiny happy people laughing / [Verse 1] / Meet me in the crowd, people, people / Throw your love around, love me, love me / Take it into town, happy, happy / Put it in
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R.E.M. – Orange Crush - Live From Mark and Lard On BBC Radio 1 / 2003
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[Intro] / Yeah, thanks for having us / We're gonna do a- we're gonna do a song that a request, uh, from you listeners and we hope you like it, it's called "Orange Crush" / [Chorus
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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. – Wanderlust (Live in Santa Barbara, CA, 2004)
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[Verse 1] / Looks like I pulled a fast one / Looks like I went to town / Looks like the world revolves around me / Looks like it's falling down / I thought I'd kicked the traces
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R.E.M. – Man On the Moon (Live from London)
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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. – Mr. Richards (Live in Vancouver)
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[Verse 1] / Mr. Richards, your position / Is a messenger pigeon / Left behind you when the camp moved on / We thought that you would listen / But the words had never crystallized
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R.E.M. – Auctioneer (Live from London)
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[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 penny and make it into a necklace
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R.E.M. – Losing My Religion (Acoustic Live at KFOG, San Francisco)
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[Intro] / [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 eyes / Oh no, I've said too much, I set it
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R.E.M. – Horse to Water (Live in Vancouver)
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[Verse 1] / I could have kept my head down / I might have kept my mouth shut / I should have held my own / You lead a horse to water and you watch him drown / [Verse 2] / You're
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R.E.M. – Shiny Happy People (Pop Mix)
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[Intro] / Shiny happy people laughing / [Verse 1] / Meet me in the crowd, people, people / Throw your love around, love me, love me / Take it into town, happy, happy / Put it in
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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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