| R.E.M. – You Are The Everything Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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GREEN was the first REM record I bought, I had intended to buy it on CD but Target was sold out so I settled for vinyl. You are the Everything became one of my most favorite REM tracks of all time. However I never bothered to view the lyrics until just now. Eviscerate Your Memory? I had to queue up the track and listen again, but this is one of those lines that once you mis-hear it, it will ALWAYS stick with you in that mode. So what did I hear that line as? Well.. "Is this a Radio Memory" and that totally ties into the theme of the verse, about a kid lying down in the back seat of the car at night on a road trip. Of course the radio is going to be playing in the background. Actually, I think my version is better. |
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| R.E.M. – Texarkana Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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re: the demo version. I'm surprised no one has related the story behind this song. As always, the band wrote the music without lyrics, then Stipe wrote words to fit. He got as far as the chorus mentioned earlier, and some at the end, before he gave up: (he slurs what I transcribe as "I'm there" - it could be something else) ====== When I’m there in Texarkana Where’s that county line, another county line. I can only see, what’s in front of me. You’re not here You are just a memory You’re in my memory And I can’t see 10 minutes, 10 hours, 10 days, 10 years 10 miles, 10 thousand miles away. ====== Stipe quit the song at that point. Bass player/keyboardist Mike Mills thought the song deserved to be finished, and insprired, he quickly dashed out the lyrics that he would sing on the album version. About the only bits from Stipe that were retained were the song title (they couldn't come up with a decent new song title so they just kept the old one); and the final line - ten thousand miles - got changed to twenty thousand and made the first line and the major theme of the new lyrics. additional: Mills was quoted as saying "...Texarkana is an unhappy song as well. They're pop songs, but they aren't pop lyrics. They're just not lyrics about the state of the world - they're more lyrics about the state of our minds or our lives." |
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