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| R.E.M. – Wendell Gee Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I think this is just an imagined funeral for a man. People eulogize him and tell stories about him and his life, but at the end 'there wasn't even time to say goodbye'. We can 'whistle as the wind blows' but once we stop the air carries it away, forever. |
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| R.E.M. – Green Grow The Rushes Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I'm pretty sure peacefrogx is correct here. I remember reading there was a sort of 'trilogy' of songs across three albums REM recorded. 'Green Grows the Rushes' from Fables, "The Flowers of Guatemala," from Life's Rich Pageant, and "Welcome to the Occupation" from Document were all songs dealing with US Policy towards Central and South America.
I found these links dealing with these three songs, which may be more helpful:
http://www.flim.com/remlafaq/fables/greengrow.html
http://www.flim.com/remlafaq/lrp/fog.html
http://www.flim.com/remlafaq/document/welcometotheoccupation.html |
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| R.E.M. – Lotus Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I think this implies that Original Sin is not the realisation of good and evil but is the evolution of opposable thumbs, as they give us the ability to do good and evil. The thumb is sort of the dorsal fin of the hand. |
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| R.E.M. – The Outsiders Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This song is related to 'Belong' from Out of Time. Compare: "Those creatures jumped the barricades / and have headed for the sea" with "Uh, it's time to breathe, time to believe / Let it go and run towards the sea." Both songs are probably about a sort of revolution by the marginalised or disenfranchised.
I wonder if it's some kind of joke that in this song we're "lost in the moment / the day that the music stopped" but in the other the lady just "silences the radio." |
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| R.E.M. – Chorus and The Ring Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Although I'm wrong I had always assumed it was Stipe's opinion on the Clinton impeachment mess. I heard the first line as 'Hey there now young Willy, swing along'. The first verse dealt with the quality of Clinton's character, while the third dealt with his detractors ("Hammered, shooting plywood in the backyard
Laughing 'cause the racket makes the blackbirds sing"). |
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