Bittersweet Me

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I move across, innocence lost
all flashing pulsar
I move across the earth in my new pattern shirt
I pass satellites.

"You're so bitter," your complaint
I can't give you anything.
I don't know who you're livin for
I don't who you are anymore.

I'd sooner chew my leg off,
Than be trapped in this.
How easy you think of all of this as bittersweet me

I couldn't taste it
I'm tired and naked.
I don't know what I'm hungry for
I don't know what I want anymore

I move across, candy floss
I move like a tank
I move across the room
with a heart full of gloom,
stronger than you think.

Oh my peer,
your veneer is wearing thin and cracking.
the surface informs that underneath,
underneath is lacking.

I'd sooner chew my leg off,
Than be trapped in this.
How easy you think of all of this as bittersweet me

I couldn't taste it.
I'm tired and naked.
I don't know what I'm hungry for.
I don't know what I want anymore.

You move across, innocence lost,
all static and desire,
you're blue in the face from navel gaze,
you set yourself on fire.

You strip down and lay yourself out,
I know you can't fake it,
But are you tired and naked?
Are you tire and naked?

I'd sooner chew my leg off,
Than be trapped in this.
How easy you think of all of this as bittersweet me

I couldn't taste it
I'm tired and naked.
I don't know what I'm hungry for.
I don't know what I want anymore.


I'd sooner chew off my leg
than get trapped
in that city.

Michael Stipe, The Haiku Year

I remember writing 'Bittersweet Me' in San Fransisco at a sound check at the first show when Bill came back from his aneurysm.
Peter Buck 1996

Quotes collected from 'R.E.M. - In Their Own Words' by Peter Hogan

Lyrics are based on fans interpretations and are not official.

All R.E.M. originals written by Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe.

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This is one of my favourite songs, I think its because it touches on my own life somehow, its familiar to me, almost as if it puts my own thoughts into words


By remona R.E.M. can not come up with a bad song even if they tried. How do you do it guys? This is yet another outstanding song from the greatest record ever recorded in the entire history of music!


By David Oldman I came back to this song 'cause of its bittersweetedness. I'm away from home for few months, it should have been intellectually developing stay, full of studying, writing and drawing out some decent plans for the future... The result is that i'm completely confused, without anything done and in a way lost innocence. I don't now what i taste, i don't what i want anymore. Bittersweet...me!


By Ania