This is the most overrated song and movie of ALL TIME.
I don't know why everyone is going crazy over a poorly written poorly performed cliche song and a movie a high schooler could have written and filmed.

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This song was penned by Roger Waters. Syd left many years before this album.

I see. That is why REM are selling out arenas and have sold millions of records, and you are posting to an internet radio message board under the name, "Crawlmeister." Come to think of it, you are right, you could have come up with this tune. Well done, Mr. Crawlmeister, keep cranking out those great tunes.

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Got the lyrics down but anyone know what the refrain between verses is? LA LA? (as in EL AY)?

I read that interview too, but I think John may have been being coy. The song is full of drug references. In the Lennon movie he told the "fan" who showed up at his door that his songs didn't mean anything. Like most songwriters, I think he wants the interpretation of his songs to be up to the individual listener rather than say "OK, here is the exact meaning of this song; there is no other option". So HIAWG may have been inspired by a Gun mag, but I'm pretty sure it's really about heroin. I mean come on . . .

"She's well acquainted with the touch of the velvet hand like a lizard on a window pane.
The man in the crowd with the multi-colored mirrors on his hobnail boots.
Lying with his eyes while his hands are busy working overtime.
A soap impression of his wife which he ate and donated to the National Trust.
I need a fix 'cause I'm going down
down to the bits that I left uptown
I need a fix 'cause I'm going down"

It is good but Nightswimming is REM's best song ever. Spoken.

Its not a 'hit' but a 'snort'. The song is about cocaine, Girl being one of the euphemisms of coke back in the day.

Really. There are plenty of songs out there that are better than those by the Beatles. It's like the people that tell me that bands like Limp Bizkit make good songs. I know that they are full of crap and are just lemmings that listen to crappy music because they're tought to like it. Sure, The Beatles have some incredible songs, but many of them are ho-hum in my opinion. But hey... To each his own.

I'll give this one a 6, but definately is not deserving a 10.

I hated their stuff initially, as well. But this: this is genius. These guys are going places that others aren't. Comparisons to Pink Floyd (this would be the Wish You Were Here record) are appropriate.

OK Computer -> Dark Side
Kid A -> WYWH
Amnesiac -> Animals

Paul McCartney's credibility has plumetted since the early 1970s and the stories from Heather Mills about his mean spirited behaviour just reinforce the impression that this is a very sad man indeed.

In my native Liverpool, the "fame academy" benefitted from McCartney's legendary generosity when the billionaire hair-dyeing mop top donated two guitar picks and some unsold copies of Mull of Kintyre to support the initiative to help young artistes. When he passes over, I suspect that the city fathers - who named the city's airport after John Lennon- will find a public toilet somewhere which they can name "The Paul McCartney Memorial Conveniences", and which will forever be visted by Japanese tourists who will pay McCartney the tribute he so richly deserves

I am a longtime fan of AIR French Band, but wish sometimes they would get a guest vocalist in on the action. Like the girl from Zero 7 - that would be perfect on this one, with some lyric changes.

One of their best.In a perfect world where there were maybe 3 U2 songs I'd like for this to be one of them.

And you're point is exactly what? Do you understand how RP works? Apparently not. Find a legitimate cause to justify mounting a soapbox.

I love this band. Thom Yorke reminds me of a less pretentious Bono.