Losing My Religion by R.E.M.

R.E.M.

Album
Out of Time
Released
1991

Losing My Religion - R.E.M.

(Oh, life is bigger       [Verse] (Bbm Bbm Fm Fm

 It's bigger than you and you are not me    x3)

 The lengths that I will go to           D#m D#m

 The distance in your eyes - …)          G#  G#

Oh no, I've said too much - (I set it up)

                                          [Cho-

(That's me in the (corner/spotlight) (x2)  rus]

 I'm losing my religion - Trying to keep up

    with you - And I don't know if I can do it)

(I haven't said enough)


I thought that I heard you       [Hook & Intro]

    (laughing/sing) (x2) - …      F# D#m-G# Bbm Bbm

I think I thought I saw you try   F# D#m-G# Bbm (G#)


(Every whisper of every waking hour     [Verse]

 I'm choosing my confessions

 Trying to keep an eye on you - Like a hurt,

     lost and blinded fool, fool) (…)


Consider this, consider this

Hint of a century, consider this

The slip - That brought me to my knees failed

What if all these fantasies come

Flailing around, now I've said    [Hook] [Link]

Too much                               Bbm G# F# G#

         [Interlude] C# D#m C# D#m

But (that was just a dream x2)  [Chorus] [Hook]

                                           (Bbm)

[Outro - Hook] - (Bbm Bbm x3) - Bbm Bbm-G# F#-Bbm

But that was just a dream - Try, cry, why, try

That was (just a dream x3), dream