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R.E.M - Try Not to Breathe

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I Need Something to Fly Over My Grave Again

I can tell you what the song is about and I've never really said it, but my grandmother was at the end of her life. She was 87, she had lived a long life and not an easy one, but she was very, very, very dear to me. After Michael would sing a song very often, things would change in a major way. The percussion part on this is some sort of shaker and then there's a triangle being played. He didn't just get in there and bash out a drum thing. He would listen and write a drum part for the song. It's not a pattern, he would play very musical drum parts. We are with melodic band

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