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R.E.M. Lyrics, Songs, Albums And More
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R.E.M. Lyrics, Songs, Albums And More at SongMeanings! song lyrics, song meanings, albums, music and more.
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R.E.M. - Shiny Happy People Lyrics
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It's about communism. Like how in the pictures of the citizens of China they look happy, they are being hidden by what's happening behind closed doors. Hence, ...
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R.E.M. - Talk About The Passion Lyrics
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This song is about the crucifixion of Jesus. ... Although I did think a little bit about a Christian undertone to this song, my major interpretation of it agrees ...
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R.E.M. - You Lyrics
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This track is about is about questioning why the sky would choose to be blue if it had the choice to be anything else, “blue also meaning sad,” states frontman ...
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R.E.M. - Leave Lyrics
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Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to ...
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R.E.M. - What's the Frequency, Kenneth? Lyrics
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(Two of the best lines in the song. He compares the nonchalant faces of young responders with the cartoons in what can only be an over-analysis. Tied together, ...
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R.E.M. - Stand Lyrics
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The point of the song, however, isn't just that some people are better off than others. It's about how people born to affluent societies take their privilege ...
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R.E.M. - Strange Currencies Lyrics
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"Going to make whatever it takes, ring you up, call you down, sign your name, secret love... Couldn't I take you in and make you mine?" There's not many parts ...
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R.E.M. - Belong. Lyrics
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This song is written as the perspective of the boys in the street, as a whole, and what path they are going to choose as they get older and grow into men. (This ...
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R.E.M. - I Believe Lyrics
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This track is about is about questioning why the sky would choose to be blue if it had the choice to be anything else, “blue also meaning sad,” states frontman ...
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R.E.M. - Superman Lyrics
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This track is about is about questioning why the sky would choose to be blue if it had the choice to be anything else, “blue also meaning sad,” states frontman ...
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R.E.M. - At My Most Beautiful Lyrics
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The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath ...
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R.E.M. - Sweetness Follows Lyrics
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A family has fallen apart, over little things, they're distant from each other. It took a funeral to realize that there's some things bigger than those petty ...
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R.E.M. - I'll Take The Rain Lyrics
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This song means everything. It could describe the rain above all and nothing more but in the same time shows the way that the person from it passes through life ...
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R.E.M. - The One I Love Lyrics
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I read this song as the lament of a person who DOES "love" (in his/ her own fashion) the person to whom (s/he) is singing, but is unable to avoid "keeping busy" ...
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R.E.M. - Tongue Lyrics
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This track is about is about questioning why the sky would choose to be blue if it had the choice to be anything else, “blue also meaning sad,” states frontman ...
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R.E.M. - Country Feedback Lyrics
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While the obvious connections with suicide or alcoholism could be drawn easily, more subtly this song could be about someone who views the world through a ...
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R.E.M. - Undertow Lyrics
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Religion is the constructs of men and men alone. Let it fall away with the rest of it all. You don't need heaven as some far off prize or goal just to make you ...
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R.E.M. - Losing My Religion Lyrics
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The meaning of this song (officially, according to Mike Stipe of REM) is about unrequited love, meaning unreturned love. (the person recounting this song loves ...
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R.E.M. - Low Lyrics
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it means: it's all the same, day, night, experience inbetween - high and low... love is thrown in there as the thing that normally 'explains' everything - it ...
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R.E.M. - The Flowers Of Guatemala Lyrics
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8 Comments · The flowers cover the graves of the people who were killed by the United States-backed military regime in Guatemala. · My favorite thing in the ...
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R.E.M. - Uberlin Lyrics
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The direct meaning, that he'll pull himself trough the day, doing his work, and he'll manage somehow. But then the lonely night starts. But he reassures himself ...
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R.E.M. - So. Central Rain Lyrics
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This is a song again about losing his religion...It is a song about religious oppression. He waited for God, for a calling. The rain washes into the river, ...
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R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts Lyrics
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What I get from this song is that if I'm hurting there is always someone out there who is hurting worse. Everyone has baggage, some just have more than others.
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R.E.M. - Driver 8 Lyrics
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This song is a ballad of great loss and lament over a train that crashes into a school bus. The engineer is high on something(s) that allow him to "flee the ...
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R.E.M. - You Are The Everything Lyrics
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This song includes memories of when you are a child on a long car journey, and you doze and feel safe whilst your parent is driving "the windows wrap around to ...
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R.E.M. - Harborcoat Lyrics
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This track is about is about questioning why the sky would choose to be blue if it had the choice to be anything else, “blue also meaning sad,” states frontman ...
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R.E.M. - Walk Unafraid Lyrics
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To me, this song is about owning up to your faults and not being afraid to fail and stumble. Very inspirational. And as already said, this live version of this ...
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R.E.M. - Let Me In Lyrics
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this is about kurt cobain. he died whilst the band were recording 'monster' and they even previewed some of their new songs to him, as he and Stipe were good ...
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R.E.M. - Hope Lyrics
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I believe this song was written for a friend of the narrator who is dying of cancer. The friend is suffering and wants to have fun and enjoy his life like ...
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R.E.M. - Little America Lyrics
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Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to ...
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R.E.M. - Try Not To Breathe Lyrics
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It's about someone dying of old age, lying on their deathebed, telling their family not to worry when they die because "I have lived a full life, I have seen ...
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R.E.M. - Perfect Circle Lyrics
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This is an incredibly moving tune. I figure it may be about wishing your life away, or finding yourself suddenly an adult with responsibilities when seemingly ...
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R.E.M. - Camera Lyrics
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12 Comments ... It's about a photographer friend of theirs, carol something, she died in a car crash, this was their goodbye. ... It is a song dedicated to their ...
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R.E.M. - Leaving New York Lyrics
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This song seems to be about changes in life, leaving the life you've grown used to and life, perhaps maturing and growing up, and reflecting on lost ...
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R.E.M. - Imitation Of Life Lyrics
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This song is about fakers, and how hollow and empty their lives really are. The chorus lists things like that.....that seem sweet but really are of no real ...
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R.E.M. - King Of Comedy Lyrics
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Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to ...
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R.E.M. - Aftermath Lyrics
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It reminds me of the feelings I had after the last time I had my heart broken. You hurt so much and you feel like the pain of losing this person would kill you ...
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R.E.M. - The Great Beyond Lyrics
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he's saying he couldn't believe how naive he was to try to convince this person he was sincere. the song is about doing whatever you can to keep a doomed ...
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R.E.M. - Nightswimming Lyrics
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This song is about memories, lost love, lost youth, shadows and light, warmth and water on a moonlit night. Water is where we came from. To go back to it, naked ...
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R.E.M. - I've Been High Lyrics
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This is about a person who wants to live his "life on high", to feel the constant rush and kick of happiness, a person who wants to do everything and travel ...
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R.E.M. - The Outsiders Lyrics
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This song beautifully describes that feeling after 9/11, when Bush said that anyone not for him was against him. What a strange environment it was, somehow ...
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R.E.M. - Drive Lyrics
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This track is about is about questioning why the sky would choose to be blue if it had the choice to be anything else, “blue also meaning sad,” states frontman ...
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R.E.M. - Lotus Lyrics
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More Featured Meanings ... This song is written as the perspective of the boys in the street, as a whole, and what path they are going to choose as they get older ...
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R.E.M. - King Of Birds Lyrics
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This song, to me, is obviously about Isaac Newton. While talking about his work, Isaac Newton famously said "Pigmaei gigantum humeris impositi plusquam ipsi ...
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R.E.M. - Daysleeper Lyrics
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The song is simply an anecdote about modern working life, using the point of a view of a stock market trader. There's nothing more to it than that and I don't ...
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R.E.M. - Parakeet Lyrics
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The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath ...
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R.E.M. - Bang And Blame Lyrics
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While the obvious connections with suicide or alcoholism could be drawn easily, more subtly this song could be about someone who views the world through a ...
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