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Second Guessing Lyrics
Why're you trying to second guess me?
I am tired of second guessing
What will be your look this season?
Who will be your book this season?
Why're you trying to second guess me?
I am tired of second guessing
What will be your look this season?
Who will be your book this season?
Here we are
Why're you trying to second guess me?
I am tired of second guessing
What will be your look this season?
Be in my club, write a book this season
I am tired of second guessing
What will be your look this season?
Who will be your book this season?
I am tired of second guessing
What will be your look this season?
Who will be your book this season?
I am tired of second guessing
What will be your look this season?
Be in my club, write a book this season
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Probably the worst song on the album, it's so boring and repetitive.... Love literally every other track on Reckoning though.
This song is simplistic in a bad way, that's all I have to say.
@ArsMorideni Totally agree with you. This song is duller than dishwater. A few songs on RECKONING are finesse, but the majority all get a major 'F' (sad, too, considering CHRONIC TOWN + MURMUR were outstanding)
@ArsMorideni Totally agree with you. This song is duller than dishwater. A few songs on RECKONING are finesse, but the majority all get a major 'F' (sad, too, considering CHRONIC TOWN + MURMUR were outstanding)
It\'s maybe the only song on the first two albums (plus the first EP) where all the lyrics are understandable, And it\'s about people trying to interpret his lyrics.
@spencerrich Particularly magazines like Rolling Stone.
@spencerrich Particularly magazines like Rolling Stone.
The lyrics are not correct. Very close though. The Mike Mills counter lines aren't listed "I'm not trying to Second Guess You". Also it's not 'Be in my club, write a book this season'. It's 'Peter, Mike and Bill write a book this season.'. Stipe has said during shows that he wrote them into the song. Why, I am not sure. There could be meaning to that like maybe they have tried to predict him and pissed him off, or he just wanted to write them into the song.
However, clearly the song though is about someone Stipe knows who he doesn't like very much. (So since he has been with his band mates over 27 years I tend to think it's not about them and he just wanted to write them into the song like he says.) The person likes to guess or predict what he's going to say before he finishes saying it. I think the other two questions are rhetorical to Stipe. Stipe wonders what their look will be this season and what book will book they will read this season. Clearly the person isn't a voracious reader if it takes them a whole season to read a book. Book could also symbolize a lover. Therefore, I think both rhetorical questions are filled with sarcasm. The "Here we are" comment either means 'this is the way things are' or this is 'where we are at.' Or, it could be simply he's driving this person somewhere and when they get there he says 'Here we are'.
@REMFIELD Just a late comment to suggest that the narrator doesn't even need to be Stipe at all (regardless of the mentioning of the band)
@REMFIELD Just a late comment to suggest that the narrator doesn't even need to be Stipe at all (regardless of the mentioning of the band)
This lyric is the epitome of paranoia
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