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R.E.M - Try Not to Breathe

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I Want to Make It Easier on You

Peter would always insist that there has to be a vocal on every part of the song. The vocalist should just never go away, he says. So for the bridge, he would put down some guitar track for me to sing on top of and I would have nothing to sing. "I've said everything I need to say in the lyric. I don't want to say anything else," she adds.

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