Released: April 12, 1983
Songwriter: Bill Berry Peter Buck Mike Mills (R.E.M.) Michael Stipe
Producer: Don Dixon Mitch Easter
[Verse]
Empty prayer, empty mouths
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Empty prayer, empty mouths
Talk about the passion
Not everyone can carry the weight of the world
Not everyone can carry the weight of the world
[Chorus]
Talk about the passion
Talk about the passion
[Verse]
Empty prayer, empty mouths
Combien reaction
Empty prayer, empty mouths
Talk about the passion
Combien
Combien
Combien de temps?
[Chorus]
Talk about the passion
Talk about the passion
[Verse 2]
Not everyone can carry the weight of the world
Not everyone can carry the weight of the world
Combien
Combien
Combien de temps?
[Chorus]
Talk about the passion
Talk about the passion
Talk about the passion
Talk about the passion
Talk about the passion
Empty prayer, empty mouths
Combien reaction
Empty prayer, empty mouths
Talk about the passion
Not everyone can carry the weight of the world
Not everyone can carry the weight of the world
[Chorus]
Talk about the passion
Talk about the passion
[Verse]
Empty prayer, empty mouths
Combien reaction
Empty prayer, empty mouths
Talk about the passion
Combien
Combien
Combien de temps?
[Chorus]
Talk about the passion
Talk about the passion
[Verse 2]
Not everyone can carry the weight of the world
Not everyone can carry the weight of the world
Combien
Combien
Combien de temps?
[Chorus]
Talk about the passion
Talk about the passion
Talk about the passion
Talk about the passion
Talk about the passion
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- Disturbance at the Heron House
- King of Birds
- I Believe
- (I Am) Superman
- Two Steps Onward (Athens Demo)
- Finest Worksong [Other Mix]
- Radio Free Europe (Original Hib-Tone Single)
- Bad Day (Outtake)
- Mystery to Me
- Hyena (Athens Demo)
- Sitting Still (Original Hib-Tone single B-side)
- Swan Swan H (Acoustic)
- These Days
- Begin the Begin
- The One I Love
- Radio Free Europe
- Pilgrimage
- Talk About the Passion
- Perfect Circle
- 7 Chinese Bros.
- So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
- Pretty Persuasion
- Sitting Still
- Time After Time (Annelise)
- (Don’t Go Back to) Rockville
- Feeling Gravitys Pull
- Driver 8
- Life and How to Live It
- Cant Get There from Here
- Gardening at Night
- All The Right Friends (Studio Outtake)
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- The Best of R.E.M. (1991)
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- Everybody Hurts
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- The One I Love
- Nightswimming
- The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
- Shiny Happy People
- What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?
- Drive
- Imitation of Life
- Stand
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- The Great Beyond
- Let Me In
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