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R.E.M - Try Not to Breathe

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Try Not to Breathe

"The organ part there was deliberately like a call and answer. There's movement in the right hand to begin and then the left hand answers," he says. "That sounds like one of those thoughtful, sad kind of church songs." The song felt like it had this kind of heaving motion of a boat rocking on the ocean,. Also, it could feel very much like someone breathing or trying to stop Breathe.

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