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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. - 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. - 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. - Stand Lyrics
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This is a typical REM song about privilege. The northern hemisphere of the world is much, much more affluent than the south. The western world is more developed ...
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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. - What's the Frequency, Kenneth? Lyrics
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More Featured Meanings ... This is about bronies. They communicate by stomping. ... This song seemingly tackles the methods of deception those who manipulate others ...
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R.E.M. - Leave Lyrics
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17 Comments · "The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure while always arriving." -- Waking Life · Transcience. · At the song's heart, we find a ...
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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. - 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. - Belong. Lyrics
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This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians ...
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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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - Superman Lyrics
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This song, which is usually thought of as an optimistic 80's single about being able to do anything, is in reality a deceptive tune that is clearly about a ...
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R.E.M. - Hope Lyrics
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(The lyrics that lean to this interpretation are the lines about "you hope that we are with you / and you hope you're recognized" and the second verse about ...
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R.E.M. - Country Feedback 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. - 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. - 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. - You Lyrics
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This song is about Stipe's relationship with River Phoenix apparently. "Did I dream you were a tourist, in the Arizona sun?" is a typically oblique reference ...
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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. - 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. - 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. - Undertow Lyrics
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no matter how far one may distance itself from it, it is a part of the personality as a grown up man. and then there we go. this is a a song about a man being ...
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R.E.M. - Harborcoat Lyrics
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This song (or at least a large part of it) is about the Jews in Nazi Germany. Listen carefully and you'll hear the line is actually, "they've shifted the ...
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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. - King Of Comedy Lyrics
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In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control ...
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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. - 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. - I Believe Lyrics
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The song is positive and upbeat, as were most of the songs the band were writing at that time (1986). The old cliches the narrator sincerely believes in, like " ...
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R.E.M. - Catapult Lyrics
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This song is about kids watching television. Wiser parents would turn it off, but these kids beg for their parent to let them keep watching. Exposed to adult ...
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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. - 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. - At My Most Beautiful Lyrics
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i think it's very interesting that neither the man nor woman is ever described through visual imagery, yet the song is about beauty. She is beautiful to him ...
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R.E.M. - Tongue Lyrics
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I think it's about being in an unequal relationship and not feeling like you can escape. It screams of regret "call my name, here I come. your last ditch lay, ...
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R.E.M. - Drive Lyrics
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You get the drive, then you lose it as quickly as you get it, because you become a disaffected, disillusioned, apathitic idiot, who can't see past your own ...
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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. - Radio Free Europe Lyrics
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In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control ...
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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. - 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. - Bang And Blame Lyrics
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I'd say it's about a bad relationship, someone trying to make you feel guilty for leaving. I always thought bang meant fuck, not saying I'm right, just my take ...
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R.E.M. - Be Mine Lyrics
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In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control ...
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R.E.M. - Maps And Legends Lyrics
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The song hinges on the dual meaning of "legend." This was a time when R.E.M. and their friends were seeking out some of the oddball characters and storytellers ...
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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. - 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. - 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. - Cuyahoga 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. - Supernatural Superserious Lyrics
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Frontman Michael Stipe has said that this track, which tells the story of a teenage séance gone wrong, was about adolescent humiliation and the kinds of things ...
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R.E.M. - (Don't Go Back To) Rockville Lyrics
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this song is about not going back to the old things that you used to know just because they are conforting. instead look forward because life is always changing ...
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