4.19.2011

Song 58: Cuyahoga, R.E.M.

R.E.M.'s album Lifes Rich Pageant has some beautiful songs with perfect tiny messages, if you have the time to translate the code.

Hyena's always been a favourite of mine, for the lines:

The only thing to fear is fearlessness
The bigger the weapon the greater the fear
Hyena is ambassador to here

And these are the ONLY lines for Underneath The Bunker:

I will hide and you will hide
And we shall hide together here
Underneath the bunkers in the row

I have water I have rum
Wait for dawn and dawn shall come
Underneath the bunkers in the row

Cuyahoga, though, is the song from that album that has stayed with me the longest.

The Cuyahoga River flows into Lake Erie where Cleveland sits. It was so polluted, the river would catch fire.