This song was in my head, and then in my car stereo, a few weeks ago. Then it went away, and then the Web site Stereogum posted a compilation of covers from R.E.M.'s "Automatic for the People" and back it was in my life again.
A long wait at a children's birthday party today, and I mentioned this song to another one of the dads, and he tossed out the phrase "one of the best songs ever." Hmm. Well, it is my song of the day.
I don't believe the lyrics specifically reference fall, but the song reminds me of fall times — the things I'd probably do with friends the first few weekends at the start of the school year — and so it makes this season almost palatable. These gray, rainy days are otherwise hard for me to abide.
Finally, I'm reminded of the time, in 1992, when a girl at the Plant City, Fla., fair asked me if I was Michael Stipe. I did not know whether to be pleased or horrified.
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--> Nightswimming, R.E.M.
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OK, the line is "September's coming soon." Almost fall.
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