I Can Kill You With My Brain

Michael Stipe and R.E.M. have always been gifted song writers, especially when it comes to lyrics.  Even the words that are especially vague still manage to resonate with me on some level.  Their last album, Accelerate, was no different.  As the song “Supernatural Superserious” comes to a close and the now familiar riff repeats, Michael sings some lyrics over it with a slightly different beat to his delivery.

I love these closing lyrics.  There’s just enough vague in them that I don’t know exactly what he’s referring to, and on the flip-side there’s just enough vague that I can more readily relate to them.  They make me smile.  They give me hope and comfort when I’m down.  They lessen my fear of the unknowns in life.  They lead me to believe that everything’s going to be all right, even if everything happens to go terribly wrong.  Here are the lyrics from the end of “Supernatural Superserious” by R.E.M. that I’m referring to.

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Now there’s nothing dark and there’s nothing weird
Don’t be afraid I will hold you near
From the seance where you first portrayed
An open heart on a darkened stage
Celebration of your teenage station

Zen experience, sweet delirious
Supernatural superserious
Inexperience, sweet delirious
Supernatural superserious
Wow