The thing I've noticed with Stipe's lyrics is that he likes to write stories with fictional characters to represent a certain emotion, in this case hopelessness, instead of just writing a biographical song about himself. I think that this is a lot more interesting than that, because the other has been done to death. I think that the last 3 albums have seen this a lot more than the older ones, but I'd say that he did it the most on Up.
The thing I've noticed with Stipe's lyrics is that he likes to write stories with fictional characters to represent a certain emotion, in this case hopelessness, instead of just writing a biographical song about himself. I think that this is a lot more interesting than that, because the other has been done to death. I think that the last 3 albums have seen this a lot more than the older ones, but I'd say that he did it the most on Up.
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