Out Of Time (1991) |
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Hey,
I can't find nothing on the radio |
When I got to the
show |
Hey hey hey |
Yeah |
Check it out |
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Life is bigger |
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That's me in the
corner |
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Every whisper |
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Consider
this |
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But that was just
a dream |
Dusk
is dawn is day |
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I skipped the part
about love |
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I said the morning |
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I skipped the part
about love |
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You and me |
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I skipped the part
about love |
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I like your hands |
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Whenever
we hold each other |
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Living inside |
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Whatever it takes
I'm giving |
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Living inside |
I'm holding my hands together |
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Shiny happy people
laughing |
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Shiny happy people
holding hands |
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Everyone around
love them, love them |
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Shiny happy people
holding hands |
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Her
world collapsed early Sunday morning (1) |
Stood and whispered to her child, belong |
Stood and whispered to her child, belong |
These barricades can only hold for so long |
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This
could be the saddest dusk |
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This lonely deep
sit hollow |
Blackbirds
backwards forwards and fall and hold hold. |
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Blackbirds
backwards forwards and fall and hold hold. |
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TEXARKANA (1) |
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20,000
miles to an oasis |
Walking
through the woods I have faced it |
40,000
stars in the evening |
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COUNTRY FEEDBACK (1) |
This
flower is scorched |
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Plastics,
collections |
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I
sat there looking ugly |
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Sideways
down |
Notes |
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The world is changing completely and rapidly, external events out of our control are going to change our lives; see also Belong. |
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It seems to be that the title of the song, probably the most widely known between R.E.M. production, refers to an idiomatic phrase of the South of the US, and the sense is "to lose patience", referring to the unhappy love story that is narrated in the lyrics. Anyway the word "religion" is not neutral, and Stipe and the R.E.M. both in the video clip and in the lyrics (the word "confession") make allusion to another possible meaning, i.e. the losing of the faith. An ambiguity that is probably another reason for the world wide success of the song. |
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Probably "try" is related to the attempt to build up a love story with the protagonist. |
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It lludes to the vision frame by frame, which is usually used in slow motion, in the assembly phase of a film. |
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Also in the sense of "ordinary", "trivial". |
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It's the first song of the group performed by Mike Milss, the bass player, at the voice. Also the next song Half A World Away is sung by Mills. |
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Participates in the singing Kate Pierson of the B-52's, a group quite different from REM but coming from the same hometown, Athens in Georgia |
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The sense it should be "I am one of the crowd." |
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The song evokes the relationship between a mother and child on the background of dramatic events: a revolution, a big change. |
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Is used again the expression "the world is collapsing" as in Radio Song and it's repeated also the vision of the radio as a window on the world, that we can imagine to turn off. Stipe said later that the inspiration for this song came from the events in China in 1989 (the protest on the Tian-An-Men Square then smothered with harsh repression). An inspiration that, as usual, does not introduce any direct reference in the song. |
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Who are the creatures that while the world collapses and changes, apparently in the right direction (the reference to the freedom that is coming) exceed the barricades and go to throw it into the sea? Many come to mind the mythical lemmings, rodents, when the population exceeds the threshold of survival, commit suicide en masse, the protagonists of a famous documentary of the Disney Studios (an urban legend, as we know now). We may consider this an additional gimmick, a strong image, to emphasize even more a dramatic moment and, by contrast, the union deep and primordial between mother and son. |
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A song of inspiration similar to Losing My Religion. Here, too, there is a neglect and an unhappy love affair, but in a darker climate . To paraphrase the first verse Stipe often presents in the concerts the song as "the saddest song I've ever written". |
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Texarkana is a city on the border between Texas and Arkansas, hence the name. Symbol of a place out of the world, distant, consistent with a song evoking large distances to be covered. |
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The title alludes to a country song modified by distortion (feedback) of an electric guitar. Even this song's theme is a love story that ends, and is built on a continual flow of words and images that this situation evokes. |
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What is the meaning of the abbreviation EST? It should be (according to the Annotation Lyrics FAQ, but it is very credible) a motivational method based on assertiveness, "Ehrard Sensitivity Training" developed by Werner Ehrard in the '70s and '80s and with many followers in that period. | |
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The song is dedicated to fatherhood, to the feelings of a father waiting for a child who is born in gentle contrast with the traditional view that sees the mother at the center when a song is about the birth of a child. |
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Lyrics
by R.E.M. (Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe)
transcribed by Kipps
Teague (K.T. Lyrics Archive)
© Warner/Chappell Music Inc. - R.E.M./Athens
Ltd. |
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"Applicable copyright is implicit (Copyright © R.E.M./Athens Ltd. for all R.E.M. originals). These lyrics are official only when stated and in other cases represent a collaborative interpretation by fans." |