Released: October 5, 1992
Songwriter: Michael Stipe Mike Mills (R.E.M.) Peter Buck Bill Berry
Producer: Scott Litt R.E.M.
[Verse 1]
Readying to bury your father and your mother
What did you think when you lost another?
I used to wonder why did you bother
Distanced from one, blind to the other
Listen here, my sister and my brother
What would you care if you lost the other?
I always wonder why did we bother
Distanced from one, blind to the other
[Chorus]
Oh, oh, but sweetness follows
[Verse 2]
It's these little things, they can pull you under
Live your life filled with joy and wonder
I always knew this altogether thunder
Was lost in our little lives
[Chorus]
Oh, oh, but sweetness follows
Oh, oh, but sweetness follows
[Verse 3]
It's these little things, they can pull you under
Live your life filled with joy and thunder
Yeah, yeah, we were all together
Lost in our little lives
[Chorus]
Oh
Oh
Oh
Oh, oh, but sweetness follows
Oh, oh, oh, but sweetness follows
Readying to bury your father and your mother
What did you think when you lost another?
I used to wonder why did you bother
Distanced from one, blind to the other
Listen here, my sister and my brother
What would you care if you lost the other?
I always wonder why did we bother
Distanced from one, blind to the other
[Chorus]
Oh, oh, but sweetness follows
[Verse 2]
It's these little things, they can pull you under
Live your life filled with joy and wonder
I always knew this altogether thunder
Was lost in our little lives
[Chorus]
Oh, oh, but sweetness follows
Oh, oh, but sweetness follows
[Verse 3]
It's these little things, they can pull you under
Live your life filled with joy and thunder
Yeah, yeah, we were all together
Lost in our little lives
[Chorus]
Oh
Oh
Oh
Oh, oh, but sweetness follows
Oh, oh, oh, but sweetness follows
Automatic for the People [25th Anniversary Edition]
- Everybody Hurts
- 10k Minimal (Demo)
- Peter’s New Song (Demo)
- Eastern 983111 (Demo)
- Bill’s Acoustic (Demo)
- Arabic Feedback (Demo)
- Howler Monkey (Demo)
- Pakiderm (Demo)
- Afterthought (Demo)
- Bazouki Song (Demo)
- Photograph (Demo)
- Michael’s Organ (Demo)
- Peter’s Acoustic Idea (Demo)
- 6-8 Passion & Voc (Demo)
- Cello Scud (Demo)
- C To D Slide 13 (Demo)
- Wake Her Up (Demo)
- Man on the Moon
- Nightswimming
- Sweetness Follows
- Try Not to Breathe
- Drive
- The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
- Monty Got a Raw Deal
- Ignoreland
- Star Me Kitten
- Find the River
- New Orleans Instrumental No. 1
- Devil Rides Backwards (Demo)
- Mike’s Pop Song (Demo)
- Drive (Demo)
- Losing My Religion
- It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
- Man on the Moon
- Everybody Hurts
- Orange Crush
- The One I Love
- Nightswimming
- The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
- Shiny Happy People
- What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?
- Drive
- Imitation of Life
- Stand
- Find the River
- Radio Free Europe
- (Don’t Go Back to) Rockville
- E-Bow the Letter
- Country Feedback
- The Great Beyond
- Let Me In
- Fall on Me
- Try Not to Breathe
- So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
- Ignoreland