Losing My Religion is a song by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., released as the first single from their seventh studio album Out of Time in 1991. The phrase losing my religion is an expression from the Southern United States meaning losing ones temper or losing faith, in this context, with unrequited love. The song marked a departure in the bands music-making practices, incorporating a mandolin, which helped to solidify its presence in ... See more [+] the music scene. It became R.E.M.s most successful song in the United States and the United Kingdom.
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Oh, life is bigger It's bigger than you
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And you are not me.
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The lengths that I will go to,
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The distance in your eyes,
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Oh no, I've said too much,
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I set it up.
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That's me in the corner,
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That's me in the spotlight
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Losing my religion.
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Trying to keep up with you.
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And I don't know if I can do it.
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Oh no, I've said too much,
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I haven't said enough.
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I thought that I heard you laughing,
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I thought that I heard you sing.
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I think I thought I saw you try.
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Every whisper of every waking hour
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I'm choosing my confessions,
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Trying to keep an eye on you
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Like a hurt lost and blinded fool, fool
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Oh no, I've said too much,
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I set it up.
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Consider this, consider this,
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The hint of a century,
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Consider this: the slip
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That brought me to my knees failed.
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What if all these fantasies
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Come flailing around?
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Now I've said too much.
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I thought that I heard you laughing,
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I thought that I heard you sing.
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I think I thought I saw you try.
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But that was just a dream,
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That was just a dream.
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That's me in the corner,
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That's me in the spotlight
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Losing my religion.
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Trying to keep up with you.
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And I don't know if I can do it.
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Oh no, I've said too much,
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I haven't said enough.
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I thought that I heard you laughing,
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I thought that I heard you sing.
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I think I thought I saw you try.
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But that was just a dream,
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Try, cry, why, try.
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That was just a dream, just a dream, just a dream, dream.
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