Falls To Climb Lyrics

Lyric discussion by dakini 

Cover art for Falls To Climb lyrics by R.E.M.

I believe this song is narrated by Federico Garcia Lorca and directed towards his current crop of biographers, who indeed do work by committee, and who would like to make his seemingly chosen martyrdom the result of depression over breaking up with Dali seven years and several boyfriends earlier, rather than about his oft-stated desire to become the "new St. Sebastian", which he saw as the ultimate symbol of victory through ultimate surrender, and a means to transcend the flesh, which he'd always seen as problematic.