Out In The Country
R.E.M. Lyrics


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Whenever I need to leave it all behind
Or feel the need to get away
I find a quiet place far from the human race
Out in the country

Before the breathing air is gone
Before the sun
Is just a bright spot in the night time
Out where the rivers like to run
I stand alone
And take back something worth remembering

Whenever I feel they're closing in on me
Or need a bit of room to move
When life becomes too fast
I find relief at last out in the country

Before the breathing air is gone
Before the sun
Is just a bright spot in the night time




Out where the rivers like to run
I stand alone
And take back something worth remembering
Line by Line Meaning

Chris was his name
The person they are referring to is named Chris


I went to his house
The singer visited Chris at his house


He ate
Chris consumed something


Raw Bisquick powder
Chris ate a dry baking mix powder called Bisquick


And ripped off his face
Chris literally removed his own face from his head (likely a metaphor)


He's now a faceless man
Chris is now a person without a face


He's a person without a face (He's got no face)
Chris's previous action of removing his own face has left him without one


He's a crazy guy (He's dead)
The artist characterizes Chris as crazy and suggests that he may be dead


But crazy guy
Reiterating Chris's mental instability


Someone pulled up (Chris is his name)
Another person arrives, who is also named Chris


With a piece
This Chris has a weapon of some kind


I ate a Q-tip from his ear
The artist ate wax from the first Chris's ear using a Q-tip


I snorted crack and then became a deer
The singer claims to have turned into a deer after taking crack cocaine


I asked you to eat my corn
The singer asked someone to eat their corn (not clear what this means metaphorically)


And then my heart for breakfast
The singer continues their strange request by suggesting someone eat their heart for breakfast


They said what's so funny
Someone else questions the artist's odd behavior


The mocking bird will watch you
A mockingbird will observe while someone else (possibly the artist) pees on the ground


From the tree
The bird is in a tree, likely nearby


As you are
The bird will watch while the person is in the process of peeing


Taking a pee into the earth
The person is urinating on the ground


It will rebirth you out of the clitoris
The mockingbird's presence during the peeing act will somehow result in a regeneration of some sort


The clitoris
An anatomical reference, unclear how it relates to the previous line


Listen to the song birds sing
The singer suggests taking the time to enjoy the singing of birds


It will take your ring
Unclear what this means metaphorically


And feed you to
The birds will also do something else to the listener


The Ding-Aling
An unknown entity (possibly another bird or animal) that will consume the listener


My Ding-Aling
Repeating the term for emphasis


My Ding-Aling
Again, emphasizing the term


My Ding-Aling
One more time, for good measure


Freeze that shit up real good
Instructions for preparing a dish, requiring something to be frozen


Serve it with a side of french fries
Serving suggestion for the aforementioned dish


Mustard or ketchup (Coleslaw)
Additional suggested condiments for the dish, with the third option being coleslaw


Coleslaw my vest
A nonsensical phrase that doesn't have an obvious meaning


Crazy corn
An unclear reference to something related to corn


Put it on my sausage
Instructions for adding the corn-related item to a sausage


And put it in between a bun
Serving suggestion for the prepared food


Lather it in condiments
Instructions to add more condiments to the sausage-and-corn dish


And put it on
Ready to eat


Put it on my buns
The sausage-and-corn dish is being added to bread buns


Eat through my ass
Suggesting someone should consume the dish by inserting it into their rectum (non-sensical)


Shit out of my mouth
Continuing the nonsensical metaphors, the artist suggests they will excrete the food from their mouth


My buns
Referring to their buttocks


In my ass and out my mouth
Repeating the strange metaphor from earlier lyrics


In my ass and out my mouth
Continues the repetition of the previous line


In my ass and out my mouth
Repeating it one more time


In ass
Referring to the previous metaphorical act of ingesting food via the rectum


Out my
Continuing that line of thought


Mouth
The excretion point for the ingested food, as per the metaphor




Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: PAUL H. WILLIAMS, ROGER S. NICHOLS

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@solidifiedmilk571

One, two, three, four
Oh
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This film is on
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@perrybeyer7531

"These clothes...


These clothes don't fit us right."


Feeling out of place and uncomfortable in life and relationships, ETC is what this song is about. Yeah it's always crazy what you could have had and we have all felt this way... I need this too. Simple and brilliant writing of lyrics that express how we all feel everyday. We all have regrets on some of the decisions that we make... sometimes we regret it due to dire or devastating circumstances............ I need this! - is a desperate plea to take it back after it is already too late. Who hasn't been there? Brilliant writing and Michael sings it with this desperate feeling of regret and pleading for things to be like they were before the missteps he made.


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It's crazy what you could've had

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It's crazy what you could've had

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It's crazy what you could've had

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It's crazy what you could've had

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It's crazy what you could've had

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I need this

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It's crazy what you could've had

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It's crazy what you could've had

Songwriters: John 

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04-November-2023



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For being such a popular group, REM somehow manages to be incredibly underrated.

@WhoaBo

I prefer it that way. It was the one good group we actually got to keep to ourselves without the mainstream masses absolutely ruining it.

They walked a fine line between popularity and artistry, and they walked it like a man on a wire.

@danielsmith3335

​@@WhoaBoPerfectly put

@wsjustice

It's weird. I think half of their songs. I only know the hook and not the title.

@lozu8947

How does this not have at least a million views?!?! Probably their most haunting song

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Most haunting for me is Ebow the letter. But this is pretty close.

@curtisevans4100

Its crazy what views it could have had.

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No kidding…top 3 song by them.
Amazingly haunting and emotionally brilliant!

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Because it's our secret

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What a band they were. And always will be. The way they kept steadily building it up with each release, climbing the long slope to produce some of the most utterly sublime songs ever written.

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