R.E.M.

Accords et partitions

Losing My Religion

Am G Dm Em F Am/B

Oh, life is bigger It's bigger than you And you are not me. The lengths that I will go to, The distance in your eyes,

It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

G Am Dsus2 Cmaj7 C Bb

That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an airplane - Lenny Bruce is not afraid. Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn - World serves its own needs, regardless of your own needs. Feed it up a knock, Speed, grunt no, strength no. Ladder structure clatter with fear of height, Down height. Wire in a fire, represent the seven games in a government for

Man On The Moon

C D Am D(sus4) G Bm

Mott the Hoople and the game of Life, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Andy Kaufman in the wrestling match, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Monopoly, Twenty-one, checkers, and chess, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Mister Fred Blassie, and a breakfast mess, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's play Twister, let's play Risk, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Everybody Hurts

G D Em A F# Bm

Sometimes everything is wrong, now it's time to sing along When your day is night alone, hold on If you feel like letting go When you think you've had too much of this life, well hang on

Orange Crush

E G D B F#

Follow me don't follow me I've got my spine I've got my orange crush Collar me don't collar me I've got my spine I've got my orange crush We are agents of the free

The One I Love

Em D C G D(sus2) Em7

This one goes out to the one I love This one goes out to the one I've Left behind A simple prop to occupy my time

Nightswimming

C G D5 A G5

Nightswimming deserves a quiet night. I'm not sure all these people understand. It's not like years ago, The fear of getting caught, of recklessness and water. They cannot see me naked.

The Sidewinder sleeps Tonight

D D/F# G5 Am C C9

This here is the place where I will be staying There isn't a number, you can call the pay phone Let it ring a long long long long time If I don't pick up, hang up, call back, let it ring some more, Ohhhhhhh... If I don't pick up, pick up, the sidewinder sleep, sleep, sleeps in a coil

Shiny Happy People

E F#m A(sus2) G Em Bm

[Riff] Shiny happy people laughing. Meet me in the crowd. People, people. Throw your love around. Love me, love me. Take it into town. Happy, happy.

What's the frequency, Kenneth?

A G D Bm E

Pas de barré*

"What's the frequency, Kenneth?" is your Benzedrine, uh-huh I was brain-dead, locked out, numb, not up to speed I thought I'd pegged you an idiot's dream Tunnel vision from the outsider's screen I never understood the frequency, uh-huh

Drive

G Dm C Em F Am

Hey Kids, rock and roll Nobody tells you where to go, baby What if I ride, What if you walk What if you rock around the clock Tick-tock, Tick-tock

Stand

A E B C# F# G

Stand in the place where you live Now face North Think about direction Wonder why you haven't before Now stand in the place where you were

Imitation Of Life

C D G Em Am E5

Charades pop skill, water hyacinth, named by a poet, Imitation of life... Like a koi in a frozen pond, like a goldfish in a bowl, I don't want to hear you cry...

Find The River

D Dm Asus4 G A Dsus4

Hey now little speedy head the read on the speedometer says You have to go the task in the city Where people drown and people serve Don't be shy, your just deserve, is only just light years to go

Radio Free Europe

A E D F# Bsus4 C#

Beside yourself if radio's gonna stay. Reason: it could polish up the grey. Put that, put that, put that up your wall That this isn't country at all

Country Feedback

G D C Em

Pas de barré

This flower is scorched. This film is on, on a maddening loop. These clothes, these clothes don't fit us right, And I'm to blame. It's all the same. It's all the same. You come to me with a bone in your hand. You come to me with your hair curled tight.

E-Bow The Letter

Em G C Bm D

Look up, what do you see? All of you and all of me Fluorescent and starry Some of them, they surprise The bus ride, I went to write this, 4:00 a.m.

Don't Go Back To Rockville

A E B C#m Asus4 F#m

Looking at your watch a third time Waiting in the station for the bus Going to a place that's far, So far away and if that's not enough Going where nobody says hello,

Let Me In

D Em G C Am Bm

Yeah all those stars drip down like butter And promises are sweet We hold out our pans with our hands to catch them We eat them up, drink them up, up, up, up

Fall on me

Dm Am G C F A

There's the progress we have found A way to talk around the problem Building towered foresight isn't anything at all Buy the sky and sell the sky and bleed the sky and tell the sky

Try Not To Breathe

G D Am C Em

Pas de barré

I will try not to breathe, I can hold my head still with my hands at my knees These eyes are the eyes of the old, Shiver in the cold

Ignoreland

C D F G D5 G/D

Lost lamb off the precipice into the trickle down runoff pool. They hypnotized the summer, nineteen seventy-nine. Marched into the capital brooding duplicitous, wicked and able, media-ready, Heartless, and labeled. Super U.S. citizen, super achiever, Mega ultra power dosing. Relax.

Bad Day

C F Bb Dm Gm A

It´s been a bad day. Please don't take a picture Its been a bad day Pleaaaaaaaase It´s been a bad day. Please don't take a picture

Sweetness Follows

G6 A6/sus4 A6/sus2 E5

Readying to bury your father and your mother What did you think when you lost another? I used to wonder, why did you bother? Distanced from one, blind to to the other.

Half A World Away

D G Em Am F D7sus2

This could be the saddest dusk, I've ever seen Turn to the miracle I alive My mind is racing as it always will My hand is tired my heart aches From half a world away

Driver 8

Em Am G D C Em/F#

The walls are built up, stone by stone, The fields divided one by one. And the train conductor says "Take a break driver 8, driver 8 take a break We've been on this shift too long".

Strange Currencies

C F G D Am

Pas de barré*

I don't know why you're mean to me When I call on the telephone And I don't know what you mean to me But I want to turn you on, turn you up, figure you out, I want to take you on

Talk About The Passion

D A G C Fm Em

Empty bread, empty mouths, combien reaction Empty bread, empty mouths, talk about the passion Not everyone can carry the weight of the world Not everyone can carry the weight of the world

Radio song

G Gsus4 E E7 Asus2 A7sus2

When I got to the house and I called you out I could tell that you had been crying, crying. It's that same sing song on the radio. It makes me sad. I meant to turn it off, to say good-bye, to leave in quiet That radio song, hey, hey, hey

Crush with Eyeliner

A G D E B

Pas de barré*

I know you I know you've seen her She's a sad tomato She's three miles of bad road Walking down the street

Star me Kitten

C Bb Gadd6 D5 E5 G5

Keys cut, three for the price of one. Nothing's free, but guaranteed for a lifetimes use. I've changed the locks and you can't have one. You, you know the other two.

At my most beautiful

G A C Bm D E

I've found a way to make you I've found a way A way to make you smile (Verse): I read bad poetry

Monty got a raw Deal

Bb Gm Dm C G

Monty this seems strange to me, the movies had that movie thing But nonsense has a welcome ring and heros don't come easy Now nonsense isn't new to me, I know my head I know my feet But mischief knocked me in the knees so just let go, just let go I saw the ocean meet the man, I saw you buried in the sand

Daysleeper

C Dm G Cmaj7 Am Em

Receiving department, three A.M., Staff cuts have socked up the overage. Directives are posted, no callbacks, complaints. Everywhere is calm.

Electrolyte

G Cadd9 D Am Em B

Twentieth Century go to sleep You're plasticine. That is obscene. That is obscene.

World Leader Pretend

D C Em G Bm Am

I sit at my table and wage war on myself It seems like it's all...it's all for nothing I know the barricades, and I know the mortar in the wall breaks I recognize the weapons, I used them well

Leaving New York

C Em Eb G D Am

It's quiet now, and what it brings is everything... Comes calling back a brilliant night, I'm still awake I looked ahead I'm sure I saw you there You don't need me to tell you now, that nothing can compare You might have laughed if I told you

Life And How To Live It

D C Gsus4 G5 G F

Burn bright through the night, two pockets lead the way To doors to go between the wall was raised today To doors remain before your others and your own Keep these books well stocked away and take your happy home.

Überlin

Em D G C Bm Bb

Hey now, take your pills, and Hey now, make your breakfast Hey now, comb your hair and off to work. Crash land, no illusions; No collision, no intrusion

Bang and Blame

G6 Amadd2 A C G Am

{Gtr2 (Clean tone)}: If you could see yourself now, baby It's not my fault. You used to be so in control. You're going to roll right over this one. Just roll me over, let me go. You're laying blame.

Near Wild Heaven

G6 Aadd2 Dadd9 F#m11

Whenever we hold each other, we hold each other, There's a feeling that's gone, something has gone wrong, And I don't know how much longer I can take it, House made of heart, break it, Take my head in your hands and shake it in this... near wild heaven...

Leave

Bb Ab F# C#

That's what keeps me, 4th Fret 4thFret That's what keeps me down, 4th Fret m To leave it, believe it,

Texarkana

Em D G Bm D(sus2) C(add9)

40,000 stars in the evening. Look at them fall from the sky. 40,000 reasons for living. 40,000 tears in your eye.

Gardening at Night

D G A Em C A7

I see your money on the floor, I felt the pocket change. Though all the feelings that broke through that door Just didn't seem to be too real. The yard is nothing but a fence, the sun just hurts my eyes. Somewhere it must be time for penitence. Gardening at night is never where.

Swan Swan H

Am Dm G Em C F

Swan swan hummingbird Hurrah we are all free now What noisy cats are we Girl and dog he bore his cross Swan swan hummingbird

Me In Honey

C# G#

I sat there looking ugly looking ugly and mean, Knew what you were saying, you were saying to me Baby's got some new rules, baby said she's had it with me Seems a shame to waste your time on me Seems a lot to waste your time on me

Moral Kiosk

E A/C# D2 Esus4 B F#m

Scratch the scandals in the twilight Trying to shock but instead Idle hands all orient to her Pass a magic pillow under head Its so much more attractive

Pop Song 89

C G D F A

Pas de barré*

1. Hello, I saw you, I know you, I knew you, I think I can remember your name...name. Hello, I'm sorry, I lost myself, I think I thought you were someone else

Believe

F Bb C Gm Fsus4 Am

When I was young and full of grace And spirited--a rattlesnake. When I was young and fever fell My spirit, I will not tell You're on your honor not to tell

Star 69

E F# B A A2

You don't have to take the bar exam to see What you've done is Ignoramus 1 0 3 What've I got to hang my hat on You don't have a pot to pee in, all this just to be your friend. I was there until the end.

Shaking Through

A D Em G Bm E

Could it be that one small voice doesn't count in the room Yellow like a geisha gown denying all the way Could this by three be ten honor marches on Yellow like a geisha gown denial all the way

Supernatural Superserious

A Em D G Fmaj7 C

At the summer camp where you volunteered No one saw your face, no one saw your fear If that apparition, it just appeared Took you up and away from this space In sheer humiliation, of your teenage station

King of Comedy

G C Gm A D G5

Make your money with a suit and tie Make your money with a shrewd denial Make your money expert advice, (before chorus hold 1st on this line) If you can wing it

How the West was won and where it got Us

D G Em A

Pas de barré

{Verse riff} Blood from a stone Water from wine. Born under earplay design. A stroke of bad luck,

Carnival of Sorts (Box Cars)

G Bm A Asus4 D

* progression} There's a secret stigma, reaping wheel. Diminish, a carnival of sorts. Chronic town, poster torn, reaping wheel. Stranger, stranger to these parts.

All the way to Reno(You gonna be a star)

C Gm Dm F Bb D#

Hummin All the way to Reno Dusted the non-believers And challenge the laws of chance (Riff 1) Now sweeter

Walk unafraid

Am Em F D C G

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

Hope

C F Em

And they're hog-tied and accepting of the struggle. You want to trust religion, and you know it's allegory, but The people who are followers have written their own story. So you look up to the heavens and you hope that it's a spaceship, And it's something from your childhood, You're thinking don't be frightened.

Living Well Is The Best Revenge

A E F# B D

All your sad and lost apostles Hum my name and flare their nostrils Choking on the bones you tossed to them Now I'm not one to sit and spin Because living well's the best revenge

I'll Take The Rain

Am C F G Em E

The rain came down The rain came down The rain came down on me The wind blew stron And summer's song It fades to memory I knew you when I loved you then

I've been High

F G C Am Dm Csus4

Have you seen? Have not will travel Have I missed the big reveal? Do my eyes, do my eyes seem empty? I've forgotten how this feels

She Just Wants To Be

Am Fmaj7 G C F D

It's not that she walked away, her world got smaller All the usual places, the same destinations, only something's changed It's not that she wasn't rewarded, pomegranate afternoons and Mingus, Chet Baker and chess It's not the stampede and fortune of prim affectations

The Outsider

Em D C G A

Pas de barré

VERSE: You took me to the restaurant where we first met. You knocked a future shock crowbar upside my head. I got caught with the stop of the tick tock, tick tock clock When you told me what you knew.

Falls to Climb

G C D Am Em G5

I'll take the position Assume the missionare part You work by committee, You had me pegged from the start. I'll be pounce pony,

Saturn return

Em G A Bm F

Easy to poke yourself square in the eye Harder to like yourself, harder to try These are espouses Postcards and neoprene Roses a dollar a stem

Final straw

Dm C Am F

Pas de barré*

As I raise my head to broadcast my objection As your latest triumph draws the final straw Who died and lifted you up to perfection? And what silenced me is written into law.

Why not smile

G A D F#m

You've been so sad, it makes me worry. Why not smile? You've been sad for a while. Why not smile?

Every Day Is Yours To Win

A Em D A/F# C F

With the walk and the talk And the tick tock clock With the rock and the roll And the bridge and the toll With the brillance and the light

The apologist

Am Bm C F D G

They call me the apologist, and now that I'm at peak, You know at first it really hurt, we joke about these things, I've skirted all my differences, but now I'm facing up, I wanted to apologise for everything I was, So, I'm sorry, So sorry, So sorry, So sorry,

Electron Blue

C F G Am Em Dm

Verso: You're on your ear, the ocean's near The light has started to fade Your high is timed, you found the climb It's hard to focus on more than what's in front of you

Animal

D Em G A Asus2 C

Hey what's the big deal? Tell me how to feel? I know where I boomeranged and fell from grace. Point me to the stars I'm up for the chase. I know where we fell on our face.

Until The Day Is Done

D G C Am7 A7

Pas de barré

An easy speed message falls into routine Providence blinked, facing the sun Where are we left to carry on Until the day is done Until the day is done A voice whispers "Son,

Suspicion

D F Em A C Am

Order up another drink, let me let imagination drive. Can't you see, I need nothing too deep. Imagination come alive, Suspicion tonight, I'll dream tonight.

Parakeet

Bm G E D C Em

And this one's nearly dead. You dearly wish the wind shift And greasy windows slide Open for the parakeet

Man-sized Wreath

G Am D F# Bm E

Throw it on the fire Throw it in the air Kick it out on the dance-floor like you just don?t care, oh Give me some

Me, Marlon Brando, Marlon Brando And I

Am G Dm C

Pas de barré

We live and dream about the future Please ask me up i need to count well now Sit through the annals of our favorite times Our heroes and all their fade out thoughts

Beat a drum

F C Gm G Bb Dm7

The sun reflected in the back of my eye. I knocked my head against the sky. The dragonflies are busy buzzing me.

Around the sun

D Em G C F E

I want the sun to shine on me I want the truth to set me free I wish the followers would lead With a voice so strong it could knock me to my knees

The lion sleeps tonight

G C D

Pas de barré

In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight. In the village, the peaceful village, the people sleep tonight. Aweem away, aweem away, aweem away, aweem away, aweem away, aweem away, Aweem away, aweem away

Make It All Okay

C Am Em Dm F Gm

You threw away the ballast and you rowed your boat ashore Didn't you now, didn't you? You made your ultimatum, too big to ignore Didn't you now, didn't you?

High speed train

Am G F E C#m Bm

And you almost got away, I told you I was afraid Did I really want to try, you're holding me to my claim I jump on a high speed train, I'll never look back again I flail like the antelope who jumped from the building And you caught me on the sly you've taken me by surprise.

I'm not over You

G C Am D

Pas de barré

My head smashed through the ceiling. I lost an arm, No one harmed, You diplomatically alarmed. I sulked away to lick my thin skin. I'm not over you.

Wall of death

D A E F#m

Let me ride on the Wall of Death one more time Let me ride on the Wall of Death one more time You've wasted time on the other rides But this is the nearest to bein' alive Let me take my chances on the Wall of Death

Dream (All I Have To Do)

E A B C#m E7 G#m

Drea-ea-ea-ea-eam, dream, dream, dream Drea-ea-ea-ea-eam, dream, dream, dream When I want you in my arms When I want you and all your charms Whenever I want you, all I have to do is dream