R.E.M. – Country Feedback

„Country Feedback” is a song by R.E.M. from their 1991 album Out of Time.

Michael Stipe has claimed that he did not even write the whole lyric down, that he „just had a piece of paper with a few words. I sang it and I walked out.” The following day, the hastily-improvised take was deemed good enough and it was not re-recorded. Peter Buck has gone even further to say that „it’s exactly what was on his mind that day. It was real.” Stipe has said at concerts that it is his favorite R.E.M. song

The song is featured on the Perfect Square DVD from 2003, and opens with lyrics from „Chorus and the Ring” followed by Stipe’s own additions of „instinct, gut, feeling, feelings”. This performance was also added to the two-disc special edition version of the band’s 2003 greatest hits CD, In Time, though the original 1990 recording was left off the main disc.

In addition, live versions have appeared on a fan club single and the singles for „Bang and Blame” and „At My Most Beautiful”.

Country Feedback Lyrics
Artist(Band):R.E.M.

This flower is scorched
This film is on
On a maddening loop
These clothes
These clothes don’t fit us right
I’m to blame
It’s all the same
It’s all the same

You come to me with the phone in your hand
You come to me with your hair curled tight
You come to me with positions
You come to me with excuses
Decked out in a robe
You wear me out
You wear me out

We’ve been through fake-a-breakdown
Self hurt
Plastics, collections
Self help, self pain,
EST, psychics, fuck all
I was central
I had control
I lost my head
I need this
I need this
A paper weight, junk garage
Winter rain, a honey pot
Crazy, all the lovers have been tagged
A hotline, a wanted add
It’s crazy what you could’ve had
It’s crazy what you could’ve had
It’s crazy what you could’ve had
I need
I need this
It’s crazy what you could’ve had
It’s crazy what you could’ve had
I need
I need this
It’s crazy what you could’ve had
It’s crazy what you could’ve had
I need
I, I need this
It’s crazy what you could’ve had
I need this
It’s crazy what you could’ve had
It’s crazy what you could’ve had
I need this
I, I need this
It’s crazy what you could’ve had
It’s crazy what you could’ve had