Resonates more to me down the years. Apparently written in twenty minutes when their bus broke down on the Fables tour. Lyrically focussed on the American Civil War, in Stipe's words, ' A war our country inflicted on itself. It's a period of our American history that was very, very ugly.' Typically R.E.M. craft something of beauty and redemption out of it. Packed full of Christian imagery. Points forward to Automatic to my ears.
Wednesday, June 24, 2020
50 Days of R.E.M. # 40 Swan Swan H
Resonates more to me down the years. Apparently written in twenty minutes when their bus broke down on the Fables tour. Lyrically focussed on the American Civil War, in Stipe's words, ' A war our country inflicted on itself. It's a period of our American history that was very, very ugly.' Typically R.E.M. craft something of beauty and redemption out of it. Packed full of Christian imagery. Points forward to Automatic to my ears.
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