'I fell asleep and read just about every paragraph...'
The undertow and scope of this always drag me in. Unlike any other R.E.M. song in some respects. No jangle here, the song is edgy and fraught and though, like so many songs in their catalogue it focus on the dream state, here there's a sense of foreboding and complete disorientation that's really nowhere else.
It will also always remind me of the time I saw them in Autumn 1985 at the Hammersmith Palais and they opened with it. Still the most exciting gig of my lifetime.Deliberately opaque, and to my ears deeply moving.
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