Biography:
R.E.M. was an American rock band from Athens, Georgia, formed in 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist/backing vocalist Mike Mills, and lead vocalist Michael Stipe. One of the first alternative rock bands, R.E.M. was noted for Buck's ringing, arpeggiated guitar style, Stipe's distinctive vocal quality and obscure lyrics, Mills's melodic basslines and backing vocals, and Berry's tight, economical style of drumming.
R.E.M. released its first single—"Radio Free Europe"—in 1981 on the independent record label Hib-Tone.
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- Everybody Hurts
- Imitation Of Life
- It's The End Of The World As We Know It (and I Feel Fine)
- Losing My Religion
- Man On The Moon
- Nightswimming
- Shiny Happy People
- Stand
- The One I Love
- 9
- Academy Fight Song
- Accelerate
- After Hours
- Aftermath
- Ages Of You
- All The Right Friends
- All The Way To Reno
- Arms Of Love
- Around The Sun
- Ascent Of Man
- At My Most Beautiful
- At My Most Beutiful
- Automatic
- Automatic For The People
- Baby I
- Bad Day
- Bandwagon
- Bang And Blame
- Be Mine
- Beat A Drum
- Begin The Begin
- Belong
- Berlin
- Binky The Doormat
- Blue
- Boy In The Well
- Burning Down
- Cant Get There From Here
- Carnival Of Sorts
- Catapult
- Chronic Town
- Circus Envy
- Country Feedback
- Crazy
- Crush With Eyeliner
- Cuyahoga
- Dark Globe
- Daysleeper
- Dead Letter Office
- Departure
- Devil Rides Backwards
- Diminished
- Disappear
- Discoverer
- Disturbance At The Heron House
- Document
- Dont Go Back To Rockville
- Dream
- Drive
- Driver 8
- E Bow The Letter
- Ebow The Letter
- Electrolite
- Electron Blue
- End Of The World
- Every Day Is Yours To Win
- Exhuming
- Exhuming Mccarthy
- Fables
- Fall On Me
- Falls To Climb
- Feeling Gravitys Pull
- Femme Fatale
- Final Straw
- Find The River
- Finest Work Song
- Finest Worksong
- Fireplace
- First We Take Manhattan
- Fretless
- Friendly Friendly World
- Funtime
- Gardening At Night
- Get Up
- Good King Wenceslas
- Green
- Green Grow The Rushes Go
- Ha We Get Paid For It
- Hairshirt
- Half A World Away
- Hallelujah
- Harborcoat
- Have You Ever Seen The Rain
- Hello In There
- High Speed Train
- Hollow Man
- Houston
- I Believe
- I Belong To You
- I Dont Sleep I Dream
- I Took Your Name
- Ignoreland
- Ill Take The Rain
- In Time The Best Of Rem 1988
- It Happened Today
- Its A Free World Baby
- Its The End Of The World As We Know It
- Ive Been High
- Just A Touch
- Kerouac No 4
- King Of Birds
- King Of Comedy
- King Of The Road
- Last Date
- Laughing
- Leaving New York
- Let Me In
- Letter Never Sent
- Life And How To Live It
- Lifes Rich Pageant
- Little America
- Live At The Olympia
- Living Well Is The Best Revenge
- Lotus
- Low
- Make It All Okay
- Man
- Mandolin Strum
- Maps And Legends
- Me In Honey
- Me Marlon Brando Marlon Brando And I
- Million
- Mine Smell Like Honey
- Monster
- Monty Got A Raw Deal
- Moon River
- Moral Kiosk
- Mr Richards
- Murmur
- My Youngest Son Came Home Today
- Near Wild Heaven
- New Adventures In Hi
- New Orleans Instrumental No 2
- New Test Leper
- Oh My Heart
- Orange Crush
- Out Of Time
- Out Of Time Instrumental 1
- Outsiders
- P S A
- Pale Blue Eyes
- Parakeet
- Perfect Circle
- Photograph
- Pilfrimage
- Pop Song
- Pop Song 8
- Pretty Persuasion
- Radio Free Europe
- Radio Song
- Reveal
- Romance
- Sad Professor
- Saturn Return
- Second Guessing
- Selingkar Kasih
- Shaking Through
- Sitting Still
- Skank
- So Central Rain
- So Fast So Numb
- Star 6
- Star 69
- Star Me Kitten
- Strange
- Strange Currencies
- Stumble
- Sugar Cane
- Summer Turns To High
- Superman
- Supernatural Superserious
- Suspicion
- Swan Swan H
- Sweetness Follows
- Tainted Obligations
- Talk About The Passion
- Texarkana
- That Beat
- The Apologist
- The Great Beyond
- The Lion Sleeps Tonight
- The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
- The Wall Of Death
- The Wrong Child
- Theme From Two Steps Onward
- There She Goes Again
- Tongue
- Try Not To Breath
- Try Not To Breathe
- Turn You Inside Out
- Turn You Inside
- Uberlin
- Until The Day Is Done
- Untitled
- Wake Up Bomb
- Walk Unafraid
- Wall Of Death
- We All Go Back To Where We Belong
- We Walk
- Wendell Gee
- West Of The Fields
- What If We Give It Away
- Whats The Frequency Kenneth
- Wichita Lineman
- Windout
- Winged Mammal Theme
- World Leader Pretend
- You
- You Are The Everything
- Youre In The Air
Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
This is REM's new song off there forthcoming album. I'm sure its all correct. Just
follow the pattern for the verse and chorus and when the break comes i have shown
how the chords work out. The lyrics in Brackets are backing vocals which are sung
at the end of the line.
Leaving New York
Em Eb
[Verse]
Em Eb C Bb Am7
It's quiet now, and what it brings is everything...
Em Eb C Bb Am7
comes calling back a brilliant night, I'm still awake
Em Eb C Bb Am7
I looked ahead I'm sure I saw you there
Em Eb C Bb Am7
you don't need me to tell you now, that nothing can compare
[Chorus]
G D
you might have laughed if I told you
C Am
you might have hidden the frown
G D
you might have succeeded in changing me
C Am
I might have been turned around
G D
It's easier to leave than to be left behind
C Am
leaving was never my proud
G D
leaving New York never easy
C Am
I saw the life fading out
[Verse]
now life is sweet and what it brings I tried to take...
the loneliness, it wears me out, it lies in way
and on our lost till in my eyes, shadow of necklace across your thigh
i might have lived my life in a dream, but i swear, this is real
Memory fuses in shatters out glass, but carry your future, forget the past
but it's you, it's what i feel.
[Chorus]
you might have laughed if I told you (it's pulling me apart)
you might have hidden the frown (change)
you might have succeeded in changing me (it's pulling me apart)
I might have been turned around (change)
It's easier to leave than to be left behind (it's pulling me apart)
leaving was never my proud (change)
leaving New York never easy (it's pulling me apart)
I saw the light fading out
Em Eb
[Bridge]
Em Eb
you find it in your heart, it's pulling me apart
Em Eb
you find it in your heart, change...
G D
i told you, forever, I love you, forever (you find it in your heart, it's pulling me apart)
C Am
i told you ,I love you, I love you, forever (you find it in your heart, change)
G D
i told you, forever, I love you, forever (you find it in your heart, it's pulling me apart)
C Am
i told you, I love you, I love you, forever (you find it in your heart, change)
[Chorus]
you might have laughed if I told you (forever, forever,I told You, forever)
you might have hidden the frown (change)
you might have succeeded in changing me (it's pulling me apart)
I might have been turned around (change)
It's easier to leave than to be left behind (it's pulling me apart)
leaving was never my proud (change)
leaving New York never easy (it's pulling me apart)
I saw the life fading out (change)
leaving new york never easy (it's pulling me apart)
I saw the light fading out (change)
Leaving new york never wasy (it's pulling me apart)
I saw the life fading out (change)
follow the pattern for the verse and chorus and when the break comes i have shown
how the chords work out. The lyrics in Brackets are backing vocals which are sung
at the end of the line.
Leaving New York
Em Eb
[Verse]
Em Eb C Bb Am7
It's quiet now, and what it brings is everything...
Em Eb C Bb Am7
comes calling back a brilliant night, I'm still awake
Em Eb C Bb Am7
I looked ahead I'm sure I saw you there
Em Eb C Bb Am7
you don't need me to tell you now, that nothing can compare
[Chorus]
G D
you might have laughed if I told you
C Am
you might have hidden the frown
G D
you might have succeeded in changing me
C Am
I might have been turned around
G D
It's easier to leave than to be left behind
C Am
leaving was never my proud
G D
leaving New York never easy
C Am
I saw the life fading out
[Verse]
now life is sweet and what it brings I tried to take...
the loneliness, it wears me out, it lies in way
and on our lost till in my eyes, shadow of necklace across your thigh
i might have lived my life in a dream, but i swear, this is real
Memory fuses in shatters out glass, but carry your future, forget the past
but it's you, it's what i feel.
[Chorus]
you might have laughed if I told you (it's pulling me apart)
you might have hidden the frown (change)
you might have succeeded in changing me (it's pulling me apart)
I might have been turned around (change)
It's easier to leave than to be left behind (it's pulling me apart)
leaving was never my proud (change)
leaving New York never easy (it's pulling me apart)
I saw the light fading out
Em Eb
[Bridge]
Em Eb
you find it in your heart, it's pulling me apart
Em Eb
you find it in your heart, change...
G D
i told you, forever, I love you, forever (you find it in your heart, it's pulling me apart)
C Am
i told you ,I love you, I love you, forever (you find it in your heart, change)
G D
i told you, forever, I love you, forever (you find it in your heart, it's pulling me apart)
C Am
i told you, I love you, I love you, forever (you find it in your heart, change)
[Chorus]
you might have laughed if I told you (forever, forever,I told You, forever)
you might have hidden the frown (change)
you might have succeeded in changing me (it's pulling me apart)
I might have been turned around (change)
It's easier to leave than to be left behind (it's pulling me apart)
leaving was never my proud (change)
leaving New York never easy (it's pulling me apart)
I saw the life fading out (change)
leaving new york never easy (it's pulling me apart)
I saw the light fading out (change)
Leaving new york never wasy (it's pulling me apart)
I saw the life fading out (change)
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