Exhuming McCarthy Lyrics

Lyric discussion by rockman 

Cover art for Exhuming McCarthy lyrics by R.E.M.

This is about people who are so afraid of themselves failing and so self centered that they try to take others down so that they can rise up; in effect, they are reliving Mccarthy and doing what he did.

@rockman Interesting interp. Political/social reactionaries tend not to recognise that they're stuck in the past (in the 1950s, this song suggests).