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Sweetness Follows

Description:

This is a cover by Sara Quin of the song Sweetness Follows by R.E.M. It appeared on the album Drive XV: A Tribute To Automatic For The People and also featured Kaki King and Ted Gowans. It was released for free on Stereogum and can be downloaded here.

Lyrics:

Readying to bury your father and your mother

What did you think when you lost another?

I used to wonder why did you bother

Distanced from one, blind to the other

Listen here, my sister and my brother

What would you care if you lost the other?

I always wonder why did we bother

Distanced from one, blind to the other

Oh, oh, but sweetness follows

It's these little things, they can pull you under

Live your life filled with joy and wonder

I always knew this altogether thunder

Was lost in our little lives

Oh, oh, but sweetness follows

Oh, oh

It's these little things, they can pull you under

Live your life filled with joy and thunder

Yeah, yeah, we were all together

Lost in our little lives

We were, we were

Oh, oh (Lost in our little lives) (Sweetness follows)

Oh, oh (Lost in our little lives) (Sweetness follows)

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Trivia and Quotes:

“When I was in grade six, my then boyfriend had an older brother who introduced him to the world of Monty Python, Adidas high tops and R.E.M. By association, well before I had ever thought to throw away my New Kids On The Block tapes and Double Dragon video games, I was ‘in the know.’ Automatic For The People was a Christmas gift from my mom when I was in the seventh grade. My friends and I would hang off my step dads workout equipment in the basement of my house, blasting this album. ‘Sweetness Follows’ is so pretty, with such a strange anticlimactic chorus, which I still love and admire about it. It’s interesting to me, with only the perspective of a small career in my lenses, to imagine what R.E.M. was thinking and experiencing after they put this album out. I always wonder if artists knew they were making something classic, something that would influence a geeky 12-year-old to dance in the basement in the suburbs.” - Sara Quin in 2007

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