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R.E.M. – Talk About the Passion
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“Talk About the Passion” is the fourth song on R.E.M.’s debut album Murmur and its second single.
Michael Stipe has described the song as being about hunger, but its message was
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R.E.M. – Talk About the Passion (Live In Toronto 1983)
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[Verse 1] / Empty prayer, empty mouths / Combien reaction / Empty prayer, empty mouths / Talk about the passion / Not everyone can carry the weight of the world / Not everyone can
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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. – Sitting Still (Live In Toronto 1983)
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[Verse 1] / This name I got we all agreed / C could stop, stop it well read / We could bind it in the scythes / We could gather, throw a fit / [Chorus 1] / Up to par and Katie bar
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R.E.M. – West of the Fields (Live In Toronto 1983)
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[Verse 1] / Long gone intuition / To assume are gone / When we try / I dream of a living jungle / Heed my way back home / When we die / [Chorus] / West of the fields, west of the
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R.E.M. – Pilgrimage (Live In Toronto 1983)
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[Intro] / This is kind of a travel one / [Verse 1] / They called the clip / A two-headed cow / Your hate, clipped and distant / Your luck with pilgrimage / Rest assured, this will
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R.E.M. – 1,000,000 (Live In Toronto 1983)
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[Verse 1] / Stranded in a marker stone / Not only deadlier, but smarter, too / Smarter too / All along the tomb / Secret in the ruin / Secluded in a marker stone / Not only
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R.E.M. – Just A Touch (Live In Toronto 1983)
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[Verse 1] / What in the world? Women in black / Don't you remember? Sonny's packed / A day in the life, nobody laughed / Look to the days, how long can this last? Huh / [Chorus
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R.E.M. – Radio Free Europe (Live In Toronto 1983)
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[Verse 1] / Decide yourself if radio's gonna stay / Reason, it could polish up the gray / Push that, push that, push that to the hull / Back isn't anything at all / [Pre-Chorus 1
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R.E.M. – 9-9 (Live In Toronto 1983)
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[Intro] / Steady repetition is a compulsion to travel / Now what does that mean? / Is there a just contradiction? Nothing much / Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul
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R.E.M. – Laughing (Live in Toronto 1983)
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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 (Ah) / In a room / A lanky room
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R.E.M. – 7 Chinese Bros. (Live In Toronto 1983)
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[Intro] / This is called "7 Chinese Bros." / [Verse 1] / This mellow, sweet, short-haired boy / Woman offers, "Pull up a chair" / Take in one symphony now / We've just begun to
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R.E.M. – 7 Chinese Bros. (Live In Toronto 1983)
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[Intro] / This is called "7 Chinese Bros." / [Verse 1] / This mellow, sweet, short-haired boy / Woman offers, "Pull up a chair" / Take in one symphony now / We've just begun to
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R.E.M. – Gardening At Night (Live In Toronto 1983)
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[Intro] / Do it / [Verse 1] / I see your money on the floor / I felt the pocket change through all / The feelings that broke through that door / Just didn't seem to be too real
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R.E.M. – There She Goes Again (Live In Toronto 1983)
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[Verse 1] / There she goes again (There she goes) / She's out on the streets again (There she goes) / She's down on her knees, my friend (There she goes) / She'll never ask you
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R.E.M. – Carnival of Sorts (Boxcars) [Live In Toronto 1983]
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[Intro] / One, two, one, two / [Verse 1] / Secret stigma, reaping wheel / Diminish, a carnival of sorts / Chronic town, poster torn, reaping wheel / Stranger, stranger to these
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R.E.M. – We Walk (Live In Toronto 1983)
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[Intro] / (One more) / Cut / (One million, a million) / (Closer) / Hey, hey, hey / [Verse] / Up the stairs to the landing, up the stairs into the hall / Take oasis, Marat's bathing
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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. – Fretless - Live From Into the Night on BBC Radio 1 / 1991
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[Verse 1] / He's got his work and she comes easy / They each come around when the other is gone / Me, I think I got stuck somewhere in between / I couldn't confide in the Prodigal
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R.E.M. – Pop Song 89 - Live From The National Bowl, Milton Keynes / 1995
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[Verse 1] / Hello, how are you? I know you, I knew you / I think I can remember your name, name / Hello, I'm sorry, I lost myself / I think I thought you were someone else / [
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R.E.M. – Mystery to Me
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Living in cities, living in cars / Living the way you never wanted to / Shakin' it up, shakin' it down / Shakin' the way you always thought you'd do / Living in cities, living in
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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. – Sitting Still
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Originally released by Hib-Tone in 1981 as the B-Side to R.E.M.’s debut single “Radio Free Europe”, it was later released in 1983 on the band’s debut record with IRS, Murmur.
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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. – (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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R.E.M. – New Test Leper - Live From John Peel Public Session On BBC Radio 1 / 1998
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[Intro] / We're actually gonna do- uh, we're actually gonna do quite a few new songs off our new record, "Up". We're gonna do a bunch from, uh, the record for that "New Adventures
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R.E.M. – Man On The Moon - Live From Drivetime On BBC Radio 2 / 2003
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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 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. – 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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