My Religion

This is an interesting motif seeing as how the band is called R. M which scientifically means Rapid Eye Movement.

M is a stage of sleep which only occurs while one is dreaming. Spot on, my friend! Flag jerseyimp on December 13, This is one of my favourite songs but I've been listening to it a lot recently.

And your interpretation really rings true to what is happening right now for me. Flag chrismelia03 on July 31, I have been there General Comment I think it is about unrequited love. Very generally speaking, he is trying to confess his love choosing his confessions and true feelings for someone; he keeps "setting it up", but he never goes all the way and has either said to much, or not enough.

He always keeps an eye on the person he loves, watching to see any sort of reaction or similar feelings. He ultimately doesn't completely confess his love and convinces himself that any sort of similar effort he sees in the other person is just a dream. I think "losing my religion" represents the emotional impact this love has on him. His entire life and whatever is the center of it now will completely change if he pursues his love, and he is just not able to make the sacrifices and risks necessary to pursue true love.

Not sure how i missed your post I basically completely agree with you: Flag myaimisfalse on October 17, General Comment Probably their most well known song. I saw Stipe on VH1 talking about this song not long ago. He commented on how it's a peculiar song and how be was surprised it became such a big hit for the band considering it doesn't follow the standard formula for successful singles. The main instrument Buck plays is a mandolin and the track really doesn't have a true chorus.

I think it's more or less about someone going through a tough situation and wanting to isolate themselves for a period of time, but despite their attempt at doing so, their suffering is out in the open for others to see. He has to make a clean break, and he knows it, but he's unable to do so. No Replies Log in to reply. My Interpretation Other people have already touched on this but I think this song is about the strange mental dichotomy that is constructed by many religions; the constant second guessing and criticizing of yourself which leads to internal turmoil and self hate and concentrating on the negatives in life.

I think one of the most important lines in the song is: Instead of living life, the person is constantly self-analyzing all of their thoughts and actions. Religion makes you feel guilty for being you. An insightful exercise in Zen has you watch your thoughts when you are really angry at yourself. You should have known better! Where did it come from and who put it there? I think it is talking about this super-critical conscience. Look at the lines: There it is again, looking for sins. Yes there are religions that forbid singing outside of church and declare that just thinking of things are sins — like coveting a neighbor's wife or goods — thought crimes.

The more he finds himself the more he drifts away from the religious ideas he was brainwashed into believing as a child. Very few happy adults with an education and understanding of science will decide out of the blue to become religious. Most adults that convert are coming over from another religion because of a marriage. Most of the rest that convert due so only after trauma. Loss of a loved one, job, war, crime victim, 12 step program, etc. They need some belief system to cling to in order to make sense of their world.

Because in our culture religious people have constantly told people it is not polite to discuss religion in public. It is okay for them to try and convert you by scaring the heck out of you with tales of eternal damnation, but if people want to rationally discuss religion via science, logic, etc, that is to be frowned upon.

If people rationally discussed religion, churches would dwindle in size. Maybe that's why he wrote the song. The band has explained that was written in a quick 5 minutes mainly to highlight the folksy mandolin instrument, and the lyrics were an after-thought that talks about obsessed, unfulfilled love towards another, soul-searching and doubting Your personal "meaning" is a lot of atheistic bias wrapped around a nice song HOPE you didn't base your religious ideas on this pop song.

Flagged InspireHi on July 31, I think this an excellently written and well-thought out analysis of this song's lyrics, whether or not this is what the band intended them to mean.

This is the sad, but true reality of religion. Flagged jerseyimp on December 13, InspireHion, Bro, Lyrics2Deep is more meaningful. It isn't a pop song. It is alternative rock. It is about religion, internal turmoil and self hate. I'm a muslim and I disturb some muslimic beliefs. I believe this is more true than your forcible sentences. Flag zinzin on March 10, Your interpretation fits with what I have been thinking about lately, that God has lost control of his creation, The World, or never had control, or doesn't exist at all, or not in the way people want to believe he does, and that "trusting him" to award strength he doesn't have the ability to give would be dangerously niaeve and I woke up today with this song on my mind, couldn't figure out why, until I read your words here.

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Flag xby45 on November 04, I 've been reading all the former interpretations, and while some of them were beautiful, I thought they were missing the subtexts But yours is a masterpiece! Flag Andrea F on February 10, My Interpretation Oh, life is bigger It's bigger than you And you are not me The lengths that I will go to The distance in your eyes Oh no I've said too much I set it up At first I think he is trying to distance himself, to tell himself this entire obsession is foolish as in the other person and his obsession with her should not be allowed to define his entire life and he's trying to talk some sense to himself, by contrasting the depths of his obsession with her seeming lack of any interest at all, and that by admitting it he is setting himself up for a catastophic failure.

I am going to show it to someone who illustrates everything you have captured. General Comment Losing my Religion actually means Losing your temper. Cursing in other words. The song, to me at least, is about him going through a serious break up, retreating to a corner and getting angry at himself for doing something wrong. Retrieved March 21, Irish Recorded Music Association.

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