 Genius Meanings
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R.E.M. – Half a World Away
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[Verse 1] / This could be the saddest dusk I've ever seen / I turn to a miracle, high-alive / My mind is racing, as it always will / My hands tired, my heart aches / I'm half a
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R.E.M. – Blackbirds (Half a World Away Demo)
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[Verse 1] / This could be the saddest dusk I've ever seen / Turn to a miracle, high-alive / My mind is racing, as it always will / I'm half a world away / My hurricane, my shoes
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Oasis – Half the World Away
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“Half the World Away” was released as a B-side to “Whatever.” In 1998 it was included in the b-side compilation album The Masterplan. In 2006, it was also included in the “Best Of
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R.E.M. – Half A World Away (Unplugged, Live 1991)
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[Intro, spoken] / Howdy / [Verse 1] / This could be the saddest dusk I've ever seen / To turn to a miracle, high-alive / My mind is racing, as it always will / My hands tired, my
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Remme & Clara Mae – Half a world away
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[Verse 1: remme] / I remember Sunday morning / We were up at ten a.m / Put my clothes on / Made you breakfast in bed / Took a shower for an hour / On our bikes at twelve a.m
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Esthero – Half A World Away
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Tu me tocas / Tu me abrases / Y tu me llamas / Pero me siento solamente / Muy solas / Across the sand / The warm air blows / From her eyes you know / She was half a world away
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One Direction – Half The World Away
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“Half The World Away” was a recorded demo that is an outtake from the group’s debut album “Take Me Home.” The demo only has Harry Styles‘ vocals.
The demo was leaked onto YouTube
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R.E.M. – 40 Sec. (40 Second Song Demo)
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[Non-lyrical Vocalizing]
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R.E.M. – Second Guessing - Live From Rock City, Nottingham / 1984
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[Intro] / Hi, Pete Ramond here with this week's in-concert, which comes from Rock City in Nottingham and stars those boys from Athens, Georgia, R.E.M / [Verse 1] / Why are you
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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. – Lotus - Live From John Peel Studio Session On BBC Radio 1 / 1998
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[Intro] / Hey, hey! / I am the lotus! / Hey, hey! / [Verse 1] / I was hell / Sarcastic silver swell / That day it rained / Tough spun, hard one, no / [Bridge] / Ocean flower
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R.E.M. – The One I Love (Unplugged, Live 2001)
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / This one goes out to the one I love / This one goes out to the one I've left behind / A simple prop to occupy my time / This one goes out to the
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R.E.M. – Losing My Religion (Unplugged, Live 1991)
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / Oh, life, it's 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
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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. – Shiny Happy People 2 (Demo)
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[Verse] / Meet me in the crowd, people, people / Throw your love around, love me, love me / Take it into town, happy, happy / Put it in the ground where the flowers grow / Gold and
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R.E.M. – Love Is All Around (Unplugged, Live 1991)
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[Verse 1] / I feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my toes / 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 love
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R.E.M. – I Took Your Name - Live from the National Bowl, Milton Keynes / 1995
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[Intro] / This is another song / [Verse 1] / I wore the clothes you wanted / I took your name / If there is some confusion, who's to blame? / I signed your living will / I smiled
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R.E.M. – Country Feedback (Unplugged, Live 2001)
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[Verse 1] / This flower is scorched, this film is on / On a maddening loop / These clothes / These clothes don't fit us right / And I'm to blame / It's all the same, it's all the
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R.E.M. – It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (Unplugged, Live 1991)
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[Verse 1] / That's great, it starts with an earthquake / Birds and snakes, an aeroplane / Lenny Bruce is not afraid / Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn / World serves
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R.E.M. – Country Feedback
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Stipe has said at concerts that this is his favorite R.E.M. song.
This and “Losing My Religion” are both songs about the band struggling to maintain their identity and integrity
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R.E.M. – Oh My Heart
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[Verse 1: Michael Stipe] / The kids have a new take / A new take on faith / Pick up the pieces / Get carried away / I came home to a city half erased / I came home to face what we
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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. – Texarkana (Demo)
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[Verse 1] / Went to take a ride out in the county / Trying to forget about me and you / Made believe can't you see / It's coming up a storm and I'm gone / Change the medium / Widen
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R.E.M. – Endgame
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[Instrumental]
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R.E.M. (Ft. KRS-One) – Radio Song
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[Intro: KRS-One] / Hey, I can't find nothing on the radio / Uh, yo, turn to that station / [Chorus: Michael Stipe] / The world is collapsing around our ears / I turned up the radio
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R.E.M. – Me in Honey
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This song is about an unexpected pregnancy told from the point of view of the father-to-be. Michael Stipe wrote it as a counterpoint/response to the 10,000 Maniacs song “Eat for
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R.E.M. – Shiny Happy People
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“Shiny Happy People” was the second single from REM’s Out Of Time album. It was inspired by a Chinese propaganda poster that the government there released after the infamous bloody
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R.E.M. – Daysleeper
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Released as the first single from 1998’s Up, “Daysleeper” chronicles the disorientation and despair of a night shift worker. The 2001 song “The Lifting” serves as a prequel of
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R.E.M. – Belong
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In “Radio Song,” KRS-One raps, “Now our children grow up prisoners/All their lives, radio listeners.”
Since this song has a reference to a child, a barricade, and a radio, it
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