From memory, this about a guy that owned a duplex house... and lived on one side of it. He would live in one side of the duplex for a while.. live his life... then get tired of it, then move over to the other side. According to Stipe, he would flip-flop back and forth several times... habitating both sides of the house as saw fit.. eventually the fellow passed away, and later was found copies of a book he had written called "Life and how to live it." cheers
Either way... this song... this version gives me goosbumps. Holy crap. If you tire of one side, the other side serves you best. I will write a book, it will be called... "Life and how to live it."
Most people who say things like this are simply boasting ... but not in this case. I was there. It was fucking amazing. Also, the Echo & the Bunnymen tours from the same era (prior to Pete DeFreitas' sad passing).
I saw them on the Fables tour in Champaign, Illinois at Follenger Auditorium. My brother and I got to go backstage thanks to him being in the fan club. Plus we didn't have to pay for the tickets.
@galloping5273 I seen REM at a club in Wildwood NJ in 84. I played video games with Mike Mills. And Stipe just walked around the club with a old army jacket and satchel. And he had the girl from "The one I love " video on his side!
i didn't mean 2003 was the old days. I meant the performance they gave was like watching them in the old days. Like back in the mid 80's when they were performing this song on a regular basis.
i've often noticed that: camera-wielding dumbasses and editing asswipes are always screwing someone out of concert films completely... Scorsese showed Charlie Watts for 4 seconds at most in his lame film of a Stones concert..
