Losing

My Religion
R.E.M.

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      

          
                         
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      
                  
    
Oh, life is big

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     
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       
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                   
            
ger. It's big ger than you and you are not me The

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               
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        
                     
           
lengths that I will go to. The dis tance in your eyes.

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    
            
    
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   

                      
                   
Oh no, I've said too much, I set it up

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    

            

                       
              
That's me in the cor ner That's me in the spot light

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        

                                     
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lo sing my re li gion. Try ing to keep up with you and I don't

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   

     

                         
    
   
know if I can do it. Oh no, I've said too much, I

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              
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hav en't said e nough. I thought that I heard you laugh ing I

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                  

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                             
     
thought that I heard you sing. I think, I thought I

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         
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                     

              
saw you try. Ev er y whis per of ev ry wak ing hour,

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      
              
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       

            

                       
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I'm choos ing my con fes sions, try ing to keep an eye on you

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             
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   

                             
         
like a hurt lost and blind ed fool, fool. Oh no`, I've

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            
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           
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                               
          
said too much, I set it up. Con cid er this

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   
         
                     
, con cid er this, the hint of the cen tu ry. Con cid er this

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  

          

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    
              
the slip that brought me to my knees, failed.

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                    
74

  

                     

                   
   
 


What if all these fan ta sies come flail ing a round? And now, I've said

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       
         
4

           
79

                        
                 
too much. I thought that I heard you laugh ing I

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
                  

83

                             
         
thought that I heard you sing. I think, I thought I

    
   
                
         
87

 
                  
      
saw you try.

    
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        


                 
92



   
 

But that was just a dream


                   
96

         
                     
        
that was just a dream. That's me in the cor ner, that's me in the spot

 
   



                  
100

      

                   

                     
light los ing my re li gion, try ing to keep up with you

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         
   
5

             
  
105

 

                             
         
and I don't know if I can do it. Oh, now I've

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       
 
                  
 
109

                   

                  
said too much, I have n't said e nough. I

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       

  
                 
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113

                           
   
thought that I heard you laugh ing, I thought that I heard you sing.

        



  
                      

117

                                     
 
I think, I thought I saw you try. But

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         
     
                    
122

                     
           
that was just a dream. Try, cry, why, try.

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       
        
             
126

                    
  

 
That was just a dream, just a dream, just a dream dream

     
 

                                         
6

          
130

 
       

                  
           
135

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    
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