Released: May 15, 1984
Songwriter: Michael Stipe Bill Berry Peter Buck Mike Mills (R.E.M.)
Producer: Mitch Easter Don Dixon
[Verse 1]
Did you never call? I waited for your call
These rivers of suggestion are driving me away
The trees will bend, the cities wash away
The city on the river, there is a girl without a dream
[Chorus]
I'm sorry
I'm sorry
I'm sorry
I'm sorry
[Verse 2]
Eastern to Mountain, third party call, the lines are down
The wise man built his words upon the rocks
But I'm not bound to follow suit
The trees will bend, the conversation's dimmed
Go build yourself another home, this choice isn't mine
[Chorus]
I'm sorry
I'm sorry
[Verse 3]
Did you never call? I waited for your call
These rivers of suggestion are driving me away
The ocean sang, the conversation's dimmed
Go build yourself another dream, this choice isn't mine
[Chorus]
I'm sorry
I'm sorry
I'm sorry
I'm sorry
Did you never call? I waited for your call
These rivers of suggestion are driving me away
The trees will bend, the cities wash away
The city on the river, there is a girl without a dream
[Chorus]
I'm sorry
I'm sorry
I'm sorry
I'm sorry
[Verse 2]
Eastern to Mountain, third party call, the lines are down
The wise man built his words upon the rocks
But I'm not bound to follow suit
The trees will bend, the conversation's dimmed
Go build yourself another home, this choice isn't mine
[Chorus]
I'm sorry
I'm sorry
[Verse 3]
Did you never call? I waited for your call
These rivers of suggestion are driving me away
The ocean sang, the conversation's dimmed
Go build yourself another dream, this choice isn't mine
[Chorus]
I'm sorry
I'm sorry
I'm sorry
I'm sorry
Reckoning (Deluxe Edition)
- Harborcoat
- Gardening At Night (Live / 1984 Aragon Ballroom)
- 9-9 (Live / 1984 Aragon Ballroom)
- Windout (Live / 1984 Aragon Ballroom)
- Letter Never Sent (Live / 1984 Aragon Ballroom)
- Driver 8 (Live / 1984 Aragon Ballroom)
- So. Central Rain (Live / 1984 Aragon Ballroom)
- 7 Chinese Bros. (Live / 1984 Aragon Ballroom)
- Harborcoat (Live / 1984 Aragon Ballroom)
- Pretty Persuasion (Live / 1984 Aragon Ballroom)
- Radio Free Europe (Live / 1984 Aragon Ballroom)
- Femme Fatale (Live / 1984 Aragon Ballroom)
- 7 Chinese Bros.
- So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
- Pretty Persuasion
- Time After Time (Annelise)
- Second Guessing
- Letter Never Sent
- Camera
- (Don’t Go Back to) Rockville
- Little America
- (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville (Live / 1984 Aragon Ballroom)
- 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