Yeah that's true about feeling the meanings more than really putting them in words. I've seen it described by Michael Stipe (I think by him) that: It's like when you have a song in your head, but you don't know many words. When you try to sing to the song then, you end up singing either nonsense or semi-coherent words based on the line you do know. Then if you listen to those sounds and transform them into the words they sound like and make it coherent, that's sort of what REM's earlier songs are like.
Yeah that's true about feeling the meanings more than really putting them in words. I've seen it described by Michael Stipe (I think by him) that: It's like when you have a song in your head, but you don't know many words. When you try to sing to the song then, you end up singing either nonsense or semi-coherent words based on the line you do know. Then if you listen to those sounds and transform them into the words they sound like and make it coherent, that's sort of what REM's earlier songs are like.