R.E.M.

Released: July 8, 1981

Songwriter: Bill Berry Peter Buck Mike Mills (R.E.M.) Michael Stipe

Producer: Mitch Easter

Decide yourself if radio's gonna stay
Reason, it could polish up the gray
Put that, put that, put that in your wall
That this isn't country at all
Raving station
Beside yourself
Keep me out of country in the wood
Deify is into the absurd
Don't let don't let don't let to call you boy
That they're pushing for us to fall
Straight off the boat
Where to go?
Calling on in transit, calling on in transit
Radio free Europe, radio
Beside defying media too fast
Instead of putting at the fall
Push that push that push that at the wall
That this isn't nothing at all
Raving station
Beside yourself
Calling on in transit, calling on in transit
Radio free Europe, radio free Europe
Decide yourself
Calling all of the them
Keep me out of country in the word
Reason it could part of the absurd
Straight off the boat
Where to go?
Calling on in transit, calling on in transit
Radio free Europe, radio free Europe
Calling on in transit, calling on in transit
Radio free Europe, radio free Europe

R.E.M. were an American rock band from Athens, Georgia, formed in 1980 by singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills, and drummer Bill Berry.

Berry quit the band in April 1997, as they were getting together to record demos for the album Up. He was not replaced on a permanent basis, but the band used an assortment of drummers in his place.

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