Yeah, all those stars drip down like butter, promises are sweet, We hold out our pans, lift our hands to catch them. We eat them up, drink them up, up, up, up
Heyyyyyy, let me in. Heyyyyyy, let me in. I only wish that I could hear you whisper down, mister fisherman, to a less peculiar ground. He gathered up his loved ones and he brought them all around to say goodbye, nice try.
Heyyyyyy, let me in. yeah yeah yeah Heyyyyyy, let me in. Let me in.
I had a mind to try to stop you. Let me in. Let me in. I've got tar on my feet and I can't see. All the birds look down and laugh at me. Clumsy, crawling out of my skin.
Heyyyyyy, let me in. yeah yeah yeah Heyyyyyy, let me in. Heyyyyyy, let me in. yeah yeah yeah Heyyyyyy, let me in.
I lost another friend last year. It was the most profound loss of my life, and I couldn't write the record for months. I couldn't write songs because I didn't want to do Automatic For The People Part Two. This was a death that really profoundly affected me, and finally when I did start writing, I didn't want to write about death. Then, in the middle of the record, Kurt (Cobain) died, and I fucking threw my hands up and said, 'I've got to get this out'. And 'Let Me In' came out of it, which was written to Kurt and for Kurt and about Kurt. Michael Stipe 1994
I knew him well enough that it was a deeply painful loss, not only because he was a brilliant songwriter and musician, but also personally, because I really had a great deal of respect for him and liked him a lot. Michael Stipe 1994
Kurt's death was just a horrible mistake... a stupid mistake. There was a difference in him before his death - he had made a very vast change as a person, for the richer - which made his death much more of a shock. Michael Stipe 1994
I had been talking to him at home up until his death, up until he disappeared. And so his death in some way was not much as a shock to us as to everyone else. We knew he had been missing for seven days, and we knew a phone call would be coming at some point and we were hoping it would be a good one. And it wasn't. Michael Stipe 1994
It wasn't a surprise. As a friend, you wish there was something that could have been done. But everyone tried. It wasn't like this poor kid was abandoned. I know people that work at his record label, and I know his booking agents. There were four interventions in the last two weeks he was alive. Everything that could have been done was done. That was a thing that he planned, and it sucks and I wish that something could have been done, but he didn't want it to be done. I think about it every day and it's hard to deal with. Peter Buck 1994
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.
this is a brilliant song! After having the album for about 2 or 3 years one day I just realised that this is the song that mostly catches me from monster...the electric guitar is like a room where everything's upside down yet it seems tranquil and natural. And the way Michael sings "...nice try" is unbelievable ... I love it! I'm sure, Kurt can't help listening to this song in Heaven:)
By Barni
I like Nirvana also and this song touch my heart everytime I listen it.I read his farewell letter and I didnīt understand it-it was really "nice try" but how can anyone tell that his childīs life will be much better without him??????????????? This song is GREAT and I wish Kurt would listen it.
By Kate
By far the best track from Monster. Well, Bang and Blame is really awesome too. This song is so emotionally wrenching, it overwhelms me sometimes. It'a a perfect tribute to Kurt Cobain, yet it works equally well for any person who has felt the frustration of losing someone to suicide.
It still makes me cry.
By PBS
i love this track, it is the awesomeness of the album. kurdt rocked, he loved michael and yeah, kurdt listens to this from up there...this track, made me cry the first few times hearing it and oif i am feeling particualrly emotional, even now i cry. it's great you know the emtion put into it, the feeling of being so lost, knowing someone so lost and trying to help only to lose them all together...yeah... michael is the everything. i love nirvana.
