" Yet Michael Stipe's melody, the band felt, was too good to pass over, so the original rhythm was slightly reworked.

The lyric " I'm not here, this isn't happening " in " How to Disappear Completely ", were taken from Michael Stipe's advice to Yorke about coping with the pressures of touring.

The lyric " I'm not here, this isn't happening " in " How to Disappear Completely ", were taken from Michael Stipe's advice to Yorke about coping with the pressures of touring.

" Singer Michael Stipe's vocal was recorded in a single take.

The video, directed by Mark Romanek, was shot on the first anniversary of the death of Michael Stipe's close friend River Phoenix and features River Phoenix's last girlfriend, actress Samantha Mathis.

Early articles about the band focused on Stipe's singing style ( described as " mumbling " by The Washington Post ), which often rendered his lyrics indecipherable.

Stipe's role in the songwriting process for R. E. M.

" Stewart Mason went even further in his review for Allmusic, calling the song " near-perfect ", " almost inarguably Stipe's pinnacle as a singer ", and " one of R. E. M.

" In the mid-1980s, as Stipe's pronunciation while singing became clearer, the band decided that its lyrics should convey ideas on a more literal level.

Morrison sang the original lyric.

Part of the original poem was used as a lyric in David Amram's jazz composition that opens the film.

The Saints ' anthem is the popular sport tune When the Saints Go Marching In, and since the club's official nickname is " the Saints ", they are one of only a few teams who do not change the original lyric.

The song, " Only A Working Man ", written by Herbert Rule and Fred Holt in 1923, was featured by Lily Morris on the music hall stage, and in the 1930 film, Elstree Calling, the original lyric being " He's only a workin ' man ".

One of the songs included in the album is the now famous " Banana Boat Song " ( listed as " Day O " on the original release ), which reached number five on the pop charts, and featured its signature lyric " Day-O.

" Rolling Stone magazine would later report that Epic Records labelmate Cyndi Lauper was interested in recording " Voices Carry " with the original lyric, but only if the band didn't put it on their own release.

A longer version of the song was released as a single on Atlantic Records, reaching No. 30 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart early in 1972 ; the additional lyrics in this longer version lend the song a greater sense of sadness, and make poignant reference to social changes taking place in the 1960s and early 1970s A few perceptible drifts can be observed when listening to each version chronologically: In the original version Jean Stapleton was wearing glasses and after the first time the lyric " Those Were The Days " was sung over the tonic ( root chord of the song's key ) the piano strikes a Dominant 7th chord in transition to the next part which is absent from subsequent versions.

*" Cœur Blessé " ( original title: " Torture " by John D. Loudermilk ; lyric by Jean Kluger, Daniel Vangarde, Claude Carrere, Jean Broussolle ) ( 1963, No. 1 )

In the end, Lord Invader was given a substantial royalty payment for having written the original lyric to the piece, while Amsterdam retained the credit ( and the publishing rights ) for his revised version of the lyric.

The original Warner Bros. LP 1830 included a 8. 5 " X 11 " bi-fold art and lyric book containing the lyrics to " Saint Stephen ", " The Eleven ", and " Dark Star ".

The lyric on this release was slightly different from that heard on the original release of this song.

* The last lyric, ' no ', in " No No No " repeats infinitely on the original vinyl album release.

The earliest Irish literature consisted of original lyric poetry and versions of ancient prose tales.

The original title was " In Other Words ", but so many people referred to it by the first lyric line, the publisher changed the title to " Fly Me To The Moon ".

The original version of the song he wrote included the lyric '# Hypovolemia will soon set in #', before he was advised by his brother Zack to change the lyrics.

The fictitious stores include a coffee shop called Hallowed Grounds ( a lyric from Johnny Cash's song " The Man Comes Around ", which was used over the opening credits ), and an upscale department store called Gaylen Ross ( an in-joke reference to one of the stars of the original 1978 film ).

After a few episodes, a lyric was added that was an alteration of the lyric of the original song ( the lyric was " Daisy, Daisy, tell me your secret do.

It has since become the fans ' base custom to shout the original lyric out loud when the band still occasionally perform the song live.

Although the strictly lyric poetry of the troubadours forms the most original part of Occitan literature, it must not be supposed that the remainder is of trifling importance.

The book is a children's story about a boy's Caribbean adventure with his grandfather, reworded from the original folk lyric of the song " Sloop John B ".

Eugene Onegin is a well-known example of lyric opera ; the libretto very closely follows Pushkin's original, retaining much of his poetry, to which Tchaikovsky adds music of a dramatic nature.

Although he did not attend any celebrated schools or universities, he was a master of Greek and Hebrew and could read the Bible in the original.

For by now the original cause of the quarrel, Philip's seizure of Gascony, was only one strand in the spider web of French interests that overlay all western Europe and that had been so well and closely spun that the lightest movement could set it trembling from one end to the other.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

Laudably enough, it is offering classics and off-beat imports, but last week only one U.S. original was on the boards, Robert D. Hock's stunning Civil War work, Borak.

Stowey Rummel was internationally famous, a crafter of a genuine Americana in foreign eyes, an original designer whose inventive childishness with steel and concrete was made even more believably sincere by his personality.

He claims that he was denied due process of law in violation of the Fifth Amendment, because ( 1 ) at a hearing before a hearing officer of the Department of Justice, he was not permitted to rebut statements attributed to him by the local board, and ( 2 ) at the trial, he was denied the right to have the hearing officer's report and the original report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation as to his claim.

Petitioner was not entitled, either in the administrative hearing at the Department of Justice or at his trial, to inspect the original report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, since he was furnished a resume of it, did not challenge its accuracy, and showed no particular need for the original report.

He says that he was not permitted to rebut before the hearing officer statements attributed to him by the local board, and, further, that he was denied at trial the right to have the Department of Justice hearing officer's report and the original report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation as to his claim -- all in violation of the Fifth Amendment.

That Prokofieff's harmonies and forms sometimes seem professionally routine to our ears, may or may not indicate that he was less of an `` original '' than we prefer to believe.

This original capsule contained a battery and a transistor oscillator and was about 1 cm. in diameter.

when the insoluble fraction was suspended in a volume of saline equal to that of the original serum sample, no complete antibody activity could be detected.

Approximately ten days after the questionnaire was mailed, a follow-up airmail postcard was sent to each of the original names.

In parts a repeated sponging was needed, but everywhere we found that water alone was enough to restore the original brightness.

Down in Concord, New Hampshire, was a flier in the right place at the right time: Robert S. Fogg, a native New Englander, had been a World War 1, flying instructor, barnstormer, and one of the original planners of the Concord Airport.

`` To be creative is to have the ability to cause to exist -- to produce where nothing was before -- to bring forth an original production of human intelligence or power ''.

What remained lacked the original verve but it was at least dignified, as befitting the tragic circumstances.