![]() Up (1998) [ larger cover art ] |
As the sun comes up, as the moon goes down
These heavy notions creep around
It makes me think long ago
I was brought into this life a little lamb, a little lamb
Courageous, stumbling
Fearless was my middle name
But somewhere there
I lost my way
Everyone walks the same
Expecting me to step
The narrow path they laid
They claim to walk unafraid
I'll be clumsy instead
Hold my love me or leave me high
Say "Keep within the boundaries if you want to play"
Say "Contradiction only makes it harder"
How can I be what I want to be?
When all I want to do is strip away
These stilled constraints
And crush this charade
Shred this sad masquerade
I don't need no persuading
I'll trip, fall, pick myself up
And walk unafraid
I'll be clumsy instead
Hold my love me or leave me high
If I have a bag of rocks to carry as I go
I just want to hold my head up high
I don't care what I have to step over
I'm prepared to look you in the eye
Look me in the eye
And if you see familiarity
Then celebrate the contradiction
Help me when I fall
To walk unafraid
I'll be clumsy instead
Hold my love me or leave me high
Walk unafraid
I'll be clumsy instead
Hold my love me or leave me high
| Lazarus (Bethany) | Posted: May 13, 2013 - 10:24 marvelous... |
| Lazarus (Bethany) | Posted: Mar 11, 2013 - 17:46 Everybody in my church loves this song... |
| olivertwist (Atlanta GA) | Posted: Dec 07, 2012 - 16:37 rdo wrote: REM was the band of the 80s, relevant in the 90s, forgotten in the aughts. Their later stuff is worth getting. Maybe their last could be skipped. Don't get Mon... (oops, I said I'd stop raggin' on that one) REM is the greatest US band, and the second Greatest Band after Radiohead. Thank you for not dissing Monster |
| rdo (DC) | Posted: Dec 07, 2012 - 15:54 REM was the band of the 80s, relevant in the 90s, forgotten in the aughts. Their later stuff is worth getting. Maybe their last could be skipped. Don't get Mon... (oops, I said I'd stop raggin' on that one) REM is the greatest US band, and the second Greatest Band after Radiohead. |
| ziakut (Slightly North of Obvlivion) | Posted: Dec 07, 2012 - 15:53 What is with the inane artwork for the album? Music is pretty good. |
| Mari (île de lesvos) | Posted: Jul 03, 2012 - 10:28 ![]() |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Jul 03, 2012 - 10:26 Everybody in my hotel room loves this song... |
| rdo (DC) | Posted: Jun 01, 2012 - 13:56 I have always thought of this song as an updated version of the hopelessly lame "Bang and Blame". I am almost done with my REM completist project, just got Collapse into Now left to go. Their later stuff really is very good. Not as good as their 80s stuff though. These guys are the best, after Radiohead of course. |
| jpdribbler (Berlin) | Posted: Mar 30, 2012 - 03:02 jpdribbler wrote: One of R.E.M.'s finest - and arguably their best post-Berry song! 10 minus 1 for the rather... clumsy production. Really blossoms live. Still great - also, R.E.M.'s last truly essential song to me. While I like some of their post-Up output, I suppose I wouldn't really miss any of it. |
| NeuroGeek (Just Way Out There) | Posted: Feb 27, 2012 - 10:35 I consider myself a huge R.E.M. fan, but this just isn't resonating for me. (Admittedly, I completely lost track after New Adventures in Hi-Fi) |
| jfogg (Grand Rapids, MI USA) | Posted: Feb 11, 2012 - 06:58 Very nice, used to be pretty into REM. Somehow don't think I have ever heard this one??? Bonus for me! It's like they just releasead a new song that is great! Will defiantly need to explore this album. |
| jfogg (Grand Rapids, MI USA) | Posted: Feb 11, 2012 - 06:58 Very nice, used to be pretty into REM. Somehow don't think I have ever heard this one??? Bonus for me! It's like they just releasead a new song that is great! Will defiantly need to explore this album. |
| jberko (Franklin, TN) | Posted: Nov 24, 2011 - 06:01 Nicely done.... |
| coding_to_music (Beantown) | Posted: Oct 07, 2011 - 12:03 If they kept writing stuff like this they would be around now... |
| AliGator (The Bluegrass) | Posted: Sep 21, 2011 - 23:57 Where's my "Homer Simspon drooling" image? I effing LOVE this song. LOVE. |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Aug 21, 2011 - 14:56 love this classic... |
| Rabid_Engineer (Europa!) | Posted: May 03, 2011 - 02:40 jpdribbler wrote: One of R.E.M.'s finest - and arguably their best post-Berry song! 10 minus 1 for the rather... clumsy production. Really blossoms live. Oh, I see what you did there ;) And yes, it rocks, live. |
| Huey (Netherlands) | Posted: Apr 01, 2011 - 11:02 Bosami wrote: Very nice. Very, very nice. Yup.. nice. 7. |
| jpdribbler (Hamburg, Germany) | Posted: Jan 31, 2011 - 05:36 One of R.E.M.'s finest - and arguably their best post-Berry song! 10 minus 1 for the rather... clumsy production. Really blossoms live. |
| Rabid_Engineer (Europa!) | Posted: Jan 13, 2011 - 07:17 My favorite song on this album. What I cannot stand, however, is Daysleeper, because it was played to death on this nation's first and foremost pop radio station. Idiots. |
| kootzy (Left Coast) | Posted: Nov 26, 2010 - 17:15 REM: one of the best |
| Jsosna | Posted: Oct 10, 2010 - 14:10 catapult |
| ronniegirl (Middle of New Jersey) | Posted: Aug 07, 2010 - 13:00 I love RP and have been a devoted listener since 2004. Only one negative thing as a result: my formerly mild dislike of REM has blossomed into full-blown hatred with at least once-daily doses. Sigh. |
| Bosami (Deep in the heart of nowhere) | Posted: Jul 22, 2010 - 09:25 Papernapkin wrote: Poser music. A comment equal to your moniker. Disposable. |
| Guyeeno | Posted: Jul 22, 2010 - 09:11 Not bad. Could be better. The chorus is the best part. |
| Papernapkin (Mountain View, CA) | Posted: Jul 06, 2010 - 16:00 Poser music. |
| Stingray (EUROPE) | Posted: May 19, 2010 - 16:57 DOES NOT WORK! |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: May 19, 2010 - 16:54 This album has a lot of good stuff, including this song... |
| walk (SF) | Posted: Apr 17, 2010 - 22:40 <- Unafraid ( clumsy instead) |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Apr 02, 2010 - 10:46 Bosami wrote: Very nice. Very, very nice. Yes... excellent... |
| Bosami (Deep in the heart of nowhere) | Posted: Apr 02, 2010 - 10:44 Very nice. Very, very nice. |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Mar 17, 2010 - 08:47 stephw wrote:
Yeah, this is cool... |
| donna_birichina (right where I should be) | Posted: Mar 17, 2010 - 08:36 One of the best songs ever about coming out. |
| stephw (Ottawa, ON) | Posted: Mar 17, 2010 - 08:35
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| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Mar 01, 2010 - 19:39 love it... |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Feb 13, 2010 - 18:08 groovy... |
| sirdroseph (Outer Mongolia) | Posted: Jan 29, 2010 - 08:30 No......no......just plain no. |
| Jelani (Home of the freak, land of the vague) | Posted: Jan 29, 2010 - 08:24 peter_james_bond wrote: dis wrote: I will never like'em.
EXACTLY!!!! |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Jan 29, 2010 - 08:22 very cool song... |
| Bosami (Deep in the heart of nowhere) | Posted: Jan 13, 2010 - 07:45 Love that ebow... |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Nov 27, 2009 - 12:34 This song is good for the ears... |
| window (Richmond, VA) | Posted: Nov 11, 2009 - 12:49 rdo wrote: Loving 50% of an album is a let down? I consider a CD great if I love three tracks. .300 may be a terrific single-season batting average, but as a percent of good songs on album... well to me it indicates $14 down the drain. |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Sep 09, 2009 - 12:03 great song... |
| Sleepytyme (Left Coast, California) | Posted: Aug 09, 2009 - 00:14 Sleepytyme wrote: horstman wrote: Better lean into it. So as not to get blown over. Keep walking. unafraid |
| Sleepytyme (Left Coast, California) | Posted: Aug 09, 2009 - 00:11 horstman wrote: Better lean into it. So as not to get blown over. Keep walking. |
| peter_james_bond (Lunenburg, NS) | Posted: Jul 24, 2009 - 11:17 dis wrote: I will never like'em.
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| crockydile (The swamps of Houston) | Posted: Jul 24, 2009 - 11:14 Hippostar wrote: Funny how you can sing the melody to "Losing my religion" to most of his songs. This definitely has a high rehash factor! |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Jul 24, 2009 - 11:14 love it... |
| Shimmer (Bethesda, MD) | Posted: Jul 08, 2009 - 07:39 There's a live version of this song on one of their DVDs that is fairly energetic. This rendition is slumberific. |
| Hippostar (Portland, OR) | Posted: Jun 22, 2009 - 16:31 Funny how you can sing the melody to "Losing my religion" to most of his songs. |


