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February 2009

This is a reorchestration of the R.E.M. song of the same name - in my opinion, one of the finest songs ever written. Set for piano and my barely adequate vocals, and introducing the "feedback" that was lacking from the original :)

I've wanted to do this for more than fifteen years.

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(words by Michael Stipe)

This flower is scorched
This film is on
On a maddening loop.
These clothes,
These clothes don't fit us right
And I'm to blame
It's all the same
It's all the same

You come to me with the phone [a bone] in your hand
You come to me with your hair curled tight
You come to me with (im)positions
You come to me with excuses
Ducked out in a row
You wear me out
You wear me out

We've been through fake-a-breakdown
Self hurt
Plastics, collections
Self help, self pain,
EST, psychics, fuck all
I was central
I had control
I lost my head
I need this
I need this

Paper weight, (a) junk garage
Winter rain, honey pot
It's crazy, all the lovers have been tagged.

A hotline, a wanted ad
It's crazy what you could've had

It's crazy what you could've had
Crazy what you could've had
I need this
I need this