Me in Honey
R.E.M. Lyrics

I sat there looking ugly
Looking ugly and mean
I knew what you were saying
You were saying to me

Baby's got some new rules
Baby, said she's had it with me
It seems a shame to waste your time on me
It seems a lot to waste your time for me

Left me to love
What it's doing to me

There's a lot of honey in this world
Baby, this honey's for me
You've got to do what you do
Do it with me
It seems a shame you waste your time for me

Left me to love
What it's doing to me

Knocked silly
Knocked flat
Sideways down
These things they pick you up
And they turn you around
Say your piece
Say you're sweet for me
It's all the same to share the pain with me
It's all the same, save the shame for me

Left me to love
What it's doing to me

Baby's got some new rules
Baby said she's had it with me
There's a fly in the honey
Baby's got a baby with me
That's a part
That's a part of me

Left me to love
What it's doing to me

Left me to love
What it's doing to me

What about me?
What about me?

Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Michael Mills, Michael Stipe

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Comments from YouTube:

Dr. Creepen

48w↑1

28 years later and this is still the most incredibly beautiful thing I've ever listened to.

Matthew Carey

43w

Aw damn has it been 28 years??

andy s

47w↑1

Yip x

george ayad

3y↑152

This the most underrated R.E.M song they have

Scott Dyson

Near Wild Heaven as well

Sam Blair

11w

SUBURBAN DICTIONARY

12w↑1

with all the amazing B sides R.E.M. has, that's saying a lot!

dumbBunny

19w↑1

@lbmclean I was a fan of both REM and the B-52s back in the day; I was still surprised at how well those voices worked together.

Chuck William

19w↑1

One of my top 5 for sure

REM~~one of the very best American bands

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gopher wiretap

20w↑10

In 1991 I was in the French Foreign Legion, running away from my life like a coward. I had this album on my Discman, played it on repeat during OP Daguet in Gulf War 1. My Carporal Chef even gave me his spare batteries because he knew what listening to music meant to a scared 21 year old going to War.
If you are reading this, Caporal. Thank You. you showed me kindness, you showed me leadership and you taught me that I am not a coward or a failure. BTW My Daughter is called Isabel. Thank you.

bugler75

17w↑1

To run away to the Legion is not the mark of a coward. You could have turned to drink, drugs, blamed everyone else but instead you succeeded in joining an elite bunch of men. You learned from your caporal-chef and became the man that you are. I was a hateful teenager who knew everything (!) until I joined the British Army infantry and remember well the one Corporal, who I’m still in touch with who treated me a little differently and showed me how to be a man and a soldier. Still use the tobacco tin he gave me.
Prenez soin de vous, je suis heureux vous allez mieux maintenant.
Et salut de Moselle (57)

Roiy Benkel

2y↑46

I sat there looking ugly
Looking ugly and mean
I knew what you were saying
You were saying to me

Baby's got some new rules
Baby said she's had it with me
It seems a shame you waste your time on me
It seems a lot to waste your time for me

Left me to love
What it's doing to me

There's a lot of honey in this world
Baby this honey's from me
You've got to do what you do
Do it with me
It seems a shame you waste your time for me

Left me to love
What it's doing to me

Knocked silly
Knock flat
Sideways down
These things they pick you up
and they Turn you around
Say your piece
Say you're sweet for me
It's all the same to share the pain with me
It's all the same. Save the shame for me

Left me to love
What it's doing to me

Baby's got some new rules
Baby says she's had it with me
There's a fly in the honey
And baby's got a baby with me
That's a part
That's a part of me

Left me to love
What it's doing to me
Left me to love
What it's doing to me
What about me?

Lucy Lane

18w↑2

Thank you. My #1 fave REM song

Luís Antonio de Morais

42w↑3

God job!

Bruce Bowers

2y↑61

REM and Kate, what a cocktail

Zoe Chaos

2y↑35

How can you not absolutely love this song? It's perfection.

Kelwolf

12y↑54

And Kate's vocals fit in so nicely. My favorite song of theirs.

ripelivejam

42w↑2

And I always try to sing along to her part. :|

Nixter1974007

3y↑44

Truly wonderful track from a magnificent album. God you guys are missed..

Juan Pablo Rios

Perros 🐕

Jarret Liotta

4y↑60

Such sweet simplicity ... Two chords in this whole song & gobs of magic! :-D

Juan Pablo Rios

No se puede

WarrenCromartie2

Yep! They just happen to be the right two chords, played in the right key and at the right tempo, with the right combination of singers. Great band. I miss the 80's and 90's.

BRET KINDELL

2y↑1

Jarret Liotta oh so true jarret , so very true

ChrisDutch

12y↑20

One of their best songs. They are a truly edgy and creative band. As their entry info in R & R Hall of Fame says they were really responsible for the creation of the indie and alt rock movements.

Bill McComas

3y↑28

It's been 25, going on 30 years. I'm still smitten with Kate's voice.

Eric W

greatness lasts

Rolando Gamez

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=iggy+pop+candy

JimmyBhoy71

2y↑2

Try Be Good Tanyas - good voice on that girl

Leonidis78

2y↑4

Bill McComas kate is 70 now. Thats mental.

Treetop Flyer

2y↑22

The most underrated band ever, they put out some seriously good stuff.

Romain Dec

19w

@Chuck William losing my religion ? shiny happy people ? i disagree what you said

Chuck William

19w

It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) is probably the most well known REM song, simply due to all the commercial usage

Romain Dec

28w↑3

Actually they are well rated. Problem is that people only know loosing my religion and shiny happy people.

Frank D'Elia

3y↑35

Love Kate Pierson

Concrete Watershed

35w

Icing on the cake.

Rolando Gamez

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=iggy+pop+candy

purdueman2012

2y↑21

My favorite REM song of all..the simple chords..the great lyrics...this tune has everything..

Spermwhale1000

43w

My favorite REM song for sure!

lauren falzarano

12y↑16

god do i love this song. probably one of my favorites from them. (hell, i say that about over half of their songs...)

Juan Pablo Rios

Gracias Lucía

Juan Pablo Rios

Gyt 🥺gruje

Juan Pablo Rios

Hola Lucía

Juan Pablo Rios

Hola Lucía estoy 35

Mauricio Otalvaro

33w↑3

Every song from Out of Time album is a jewel!

Jesse Martin

44w↑2

Preserved in honey

Scott Waldon

2y↑11

Probably one of my three favorite REM songs (Nightswimming, Electrolite, and The Sidewinder Sleeps); ok top 4.

Carly Crownover

45w

Wow. Those are way down my list but great.

roadhockey

@Eduardo Mota Strange Currencies boys

Eduardo Mota

2y↑2

Man on the Moon
E-bow the letter
Nightswimming
Me in honey
Voice of Harold
Wolves Lower
So Central Rain...
And many 678 others...:)

Darin Lewandowski

2y↑2

Love this song!!

ANIS MIGUEL JUNIOR

1y↑7

This album is pure magic and emotion. REM amazing

Jason Freeman

25w

Best REM album imo.

John T

48w↑2

id have happily took kate as a full time member ,she really adds to the tracks she worked on for out of time .....blended perfectly

SAUL SM

8y↑5

Sonido, voces, letras, todo es REM

Paul Sinnott

2y↑3

What about me, what a tune!

Isabel blanco

1y↑4

Me in Honey
R.E.M
Estos son años de buena suerte
Son días con hermosa música
2019

Pa. D

2y↑5

This song would've been a number one hit if they realised what they had on their hands?, love the song

Scott Fleck

regrets, regrets, on so many levels. never meant to hurt anyone.

ron oakes

14w↑1

I just revisited Out Of Time. Memories came flooding back. This is such a great song.

veritas1007

50w↑3

This song is one of the few songs that could of lasted forever

Peter Jacobs

2y↑6

One of my favorite songs, by any musical artist, ever.

Juan Pablo Rios

Y luego se xela

Lorraine Fareri

14w↑1

yeah it may be the most underrated but you know what... all their music is underrated !!!

ariel gomel

24w↑1

LOVE THIS SONG

lovestipe

12y↑7

I love this song :)

Ricardo Santamaria Sosa

21w↑1

Masterpiece.

Gregory Paine

1y↑3

This album gets better with time. This is their best song

Chris O.

14w

I can't get their voices out of my mind today. The harmonization between both Michael and Kate is so beautiful. I wish they did more music together.

That would be an ecumenical matter.

46w↑1

The Greatest REM song of them all.

The God of Truth

3y↑8

Brilliant

Redemption Time

18w

"Baby's got some new rules, baby says she's had it with me"

Jaco Roux

2y↑3

ace tune, one of their best closers

Jon Smith

21w

Beautiful..soulful..some of the best music ever

Do e

1y↑2

Alternative rock, art rock, post-grunge, folk rock, power pop, jangle pop, progressive rock

steve graham

23w

such a simple song but wow after a few plays its in your head ..love it

bhmskim

12y↑4

it hasn't been 20yrs yet. This album came out in 91. Now if you're referring to the Green album than yeah, its been 20 years.

Squiggles Avatar

3y↑3

bhmskim good ol 2009

Graham Vingoe

I had forgotten how much I liked this. great song

Denner Castro

50w

The best music ever of REM.

Christophe Vigan

26w

How Many souvenirs of my youngblood

Dan Nájera

47w↑2

One of the most underrated songs of all time

Keith A

3y↑7

Out of all the REM songs I listened to through the years starting in 1987... Me in Honey and Pale Blue Eyes are my all time favorites.

aardvarkmcgillicuddy

2y↑1

@vurogj yep, the velvets were really the thing...

blindwillie99

@M G SACRILEGE!

M G

2y↑1

The R.E.M. version of Pale Blue Eyes is a lot better though. Same with Femme Fatale

vurogj

I definitely recommend you find some Velvet Underground to listen to, they did the original of Pale Blue Eyes that REM covered, and Peter has stated in numerous interviews what an influence VU were on him as a young musician.

phil he

AMAZING

Juan Pablo Rios

Gracias por todo el tiempo

ripelivejam

42w

Piano Fire by Sparklehorse gives me similar vibes, I just realized.

Rogério Estevão

2y↑2

Me In Honey
R.E.M.

I sat there looking ugly
Looking ugly and mean
I knew what you were saying
You were saying to me

Baby's got some new rules
Baby, said she's had it with me
It seems a shame to waste your time on me
It seems a lot to waste your time for me

Left me to love
What it's doing to me

There's a lot of honey in this world
Baby, this honey's for me
You've got to do what you do
Do it with me
It seems a shame you waste your time for me

Left me to love
What it's doing to me

Knocked silly
Knocked flat
Sideways down
These things they pick you up
And they turn you around
Say your piece
Say you're sweet for me
It's all the same to share the pain with me
It's all the same, save the shame for me

Left me to love
What it's doing to me

Baby's got some new rules
Baby said she's had it with me
There's a fly in the honey
Baby's got a baby with me
That's a part
That's a part of me

Left me to love
What it's doing to me

Left me to love
What it's doing to me

What about me?
What about me?

Sherif El Kadi

Me in History 0.0 GPA
heheheh What a Waste of time ... <:)

E.P. Brohltal-Eifel -Rheinland-Pfalz-DE

(August.21.2020)

Esther Dix

2y↑4

College days in Atlanta, Ga. in the 80's

G Hanna

1y↑1

more like 1991

ignatius reilly

2y↑2

Sublime!

rikitiki32

3y↑3

It is out of time. (Album, and the song.) 25 years?

Vj Avzone

😉👍🏼

Esther Dix

2y↑5

My favorite band ever

Peggy Franzen

I love the ' Indigo Girls', on this song.REM had great artists on their albums. Thank you.

Brian Palmatier

1y↑2

It's Kate Pierson from the B52s

Bruce Bowers

36w

What is the cool sound at the beginning of the tune? Is that Buck's guitar?

Θεοδωρος Λ.

24w

Total blame and suffering

C R

Dat chorus thou

Jason Barbush

check out Mine Smell Like Honey off of Collapse Into Now.

Greg GD61

Thanks IRS for your patience.

foxy fox

1y↑2

Love any Kate Pierson collaboration

Eric W

Basically 2 chords and an epic song

tmage23

The vocals carry the song. The simple chord structure provides a foundation for the vocal harmonies to play over.

Andy Saunders

Fly....

Joyvan de Sales

Great music.😇😇😇😇😇😇

Paul McCauley

A nice song for a nice night, perhaps a murder again, well for meee! !

Squiggles Avatar

3y↑1

Paul McCauley you a cop?

Henrie Weijers

5y↑5

I love this song

Matt William

1y↑2

wish they had done more stuff with Kate

Spermwhale1000

43w

Yeah, her voice really stands out.

Indie Endi

49w

Do you know their song "Fretless"? It is also together with Kate, a wonderful song

toyoscio

Me too She bought out the best in him.

ariel gomel

24w

good song

Philip Kearney

1y↑2

Michael stipe and Kate Pierson just magic together

skeeter197140

43w

I used to go to this bar in a bowling alley. There was never anybody there, so it was like my own private bar. My girlfriend and I would load up the jukebox and get hammered shooting pool and listening to music. This was one of the songs. 20 years later, she's long gone, and I kept trying to find this song when I would feel a little melancholic, reminisce a little. I could never find it. I just talked to her and she's getting married (to my old friend), so I grabbed a beer, typed in the only line I could remember in Google ("waste your time on me"), and here we are. Here's to those times in your life you thought would never end.

R. Michael Duttera

8y↑4

REM were a Rock band. Creative yes,edgy yes. but they were around before there was any such label as Alternative which has no real meaning, let alone indie which has even less. Such labeling and claims to having invented the terms are laughable imaginings by propagandists of various flavors not worth going into. Just accept it as creative Rock. Arguing over all these noveau labels is stupid...my 2 cents

KebabMusicLtd

But that wasn’t unique to the 80s.’ In the early 60’s you had the obvious big groups like the Beatles, Stones, Kinks etc… then you had the groups who started out playing mostly blues numbers by T.J. Hooker and others, like The Yardbirds and The Animals and the Small Faces… as the decade progressed these groups began to evolve their sound culminating in the psychedelic period. By which point in time the main-stream pop music and the more progressive groups had reached a fork-in-the-road. The radio got mostly taken over by the radio-friendly music or the bubblegum pop, whilst those groups who would become the stadium fillers of the 70s’ began to cut an alternative furrow not necessarily in the main-stream. Pink Floyd and later Led Zeppelin spring to mind here…

If you look at the music in the singles charts of 1971 for example, and compare it to the albums charts of the same period, you will find very few of the rock heavy-weights bothering with singles as much as they did with albums, whilst at the other end of the scale, many of these short-lived pop-bands that sprang up enjoyed heady single chart success only for them to disappear into the club circuit a few years later. Meanwhile Floyd, Zep and Queen to name just three made a permanent mark on the music industry which is still relevant today, nearly fifty-years after the event.

lyrè mknzi

and hardcore/punk bands like blackflag, social distortion, minor threat (which became fugazi) etc. it was always there. but now...thats another story

olan levan

The Smiths, Joy Division, Morissey, New Order popular 80s alternative. There were alot of others out there that were mainstream Skid Row, Motley Crew, Poison, GunsnRoses, Def Leppard etc that took rock to new levels of creativity probably the golden age of Rock. They used the newer synthesise equipment but the skill was still there in vocals and guitar. I would argue that the golden age of music that culminates from the origins of rock are exemplified in the 80s and that includes every genre in general. REM, Counting Crows etc came along and it was just good music that was fun and sad to listen too. What I think is worth noting about is that this era ~~80s~~ produced the best music overall, it was the height of creativity and it will never be duplicated again!

wildmercuryfilms

R. Michael Duttera Yes, Alternative definitely had meaning. I was 12 years old in 1983 when Murmur was released. During that time, the worst music in the rock era was on the radio: Not just Michael Jackson and Prince, but Genesis, Hall & Oates. It was awful synthesizer music with drum machines. People who loved real music played by real people with real instruments had to listen to music from the past, like Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd and the Beatles, etc. There was nothing new that was real and good. Then REM and The Replacements and Husker Du and The Smiths and the Pixies came along and started making music with real drums and real guitars with very interesting and smart lyrics. Only college radio would play these bands from 1983 through 1988. Mainstream radio didn’t play these bands. These bands were “the alternative” to the awful music heard on mainstream radio. So, from 1983 through 1988, these were “alternative bands.” It wasn’t a negative connotation at all. The artists used the term alternative. The college radio stations used the term alternative, or “alt music.” The fans used it. It was only till later, 1989 through 1997, that “alternative” became a “label” that no longer applied because the bands that were being called “alternative” were actually on the radio and had major label contracts and were quite obviously mainstream. Nirvana and Pearl Jam and others were called “alternative” because they walked in the footprints of the Pixies and the replacements and Husker du and REM. In other words, they were using real drums and real guitars with no synthesizers.