R.E.M. - "Losing My Religion" In Major Key

Maintaining my religion

Losing my Religion is filmed in front of a live studio audience.

This is a good example of emotion in the voice when singing, because even though the song sounds happy, his voice still sounds sad/melancholy

This sounds like it's fighting to stay in minor key.

This is like uncanny valley for your ears

That's me in the corner :D That's me in the spot :D light :D

six years later, still one of the best musical edits i have ever found. this haunts me every single day. thank you.

This sounds like the song played at the very last episode of a loved series that's finally come to an end; the end is lovely but you're sad it's ending. Bittersweet

In this happy version, the theme is simply trying to figure out where you put your gosh darned religion, and in the end it turns out it was in your other pants all along, and everyone laughs together before fading out.

Keeping my Religion.

The music is happy but his voice sounds like he's about to cry xD

I love REM and I love Losing My Religion, and I think this is actually great. It’s still kinda melancholy - like you’re saying goodbye to a good friend, but at the end of the day you’re happy to have been friends.

Kind of reminds me of the Smiths.

It's like a very dear old friend has suddenly been told he in fact ISN'T actually dying.

Lyrics: Oh life is smaller It's smaller than you And you are like me The lengths that I won't go to The nearness in your eyes Good, I've said just enough I set it off That's me in the center That's me in the shadows Gaining my religion Trying to fall off from you And I know that I can do it Oh yeah, I've said enough I haven't said too much I knew that I heard you laughing I knew that I heard you sing I know I knew I saw you try Every holler, of every sleeping hour I don't choose my confessions Trying to keep my eyes off you Like a happy, clear-minded sage, sage Oh yeah, I've said enough I set it off Consider this… Consider this the tease of the century Consider this the win That brought me off my knees, succeeded What if all these realities come flailing around? Now I've said … just enough I knew that I heard you laughing I knew that I heard you sing I know I knew I saw you try And that was not a dream That was not a dream That's me in the center That's me in the shadows Gaining my religion Trying to fall off from you And I know that I can do it Oh yeah, I've said enough I haven't said too much I knew that I heard you laughing I knew that I heard you sing I know I knew I saw you try And that was not a dream Try, spry, fly, high That was not a dream Not a dream Not a dream, dream

This is absolutely beautiful. I feel like I’m hearing this song for the first time, seeing an old friend after many years

Its both more cheerful and more sad. It sounds like you're sat around drunk in a corner having had your life gone wrong but you're still smiling through tears and constantly saying 'everything fine HAHA EVERYTHINGS FINE' 

"losing one's religion" is southern USA slang for losing your cool or breaking down. The lyrics are about being at the end of your rope because someone doesn't love you back. The major key works so well for this when the melody descends rather than ascends.

This is incredible. Such a complex mood. Like it feels like holding on to that last bit of hope that everything might be ok even though the worlds crumbling around you. Or someone realizing the beauty in their suffering and kind of longing for sadness in a way, just to feel something.

>Record scratch >Freeze frame >"Soooo yeah, that's me in the corner..."