What If We Give It Away? Lyrics

Lyric discussion by patricknbl 

Cover art for What If We Give It Away? lyrics by R.E.M.

I always thought this was about a rural family resisting being evicted from their home to make way for development --- "Take the order, sew it on your tie" expressing contempt for the suited city slicker who is trying to remove them. "All the money couldn\'t buy" --- their home is worth more than any money anyone could offer them to move.

@patricknbl I will always see this song as the bulldozing of Indigenous Americans who lived on the land for centuries before Europeans