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Lyrics

I am not the type of dog
That could keep you waiting
For no good reason
Run a carbon-black test on my jaw
And you will find it’s all been said before

I can swing my megaphone and long arm the rest
It’s easier and better
To just beat it from the chest
Of desire

I could walk into this room
And the waves of conversation are enough
To knock you down in the undertow
So alone so alone in my life
Feed me banks of light
And hang your hairshirt on the lowest rung
It’s a beautiful life
And I can hang my hairshirt
Away up high in the attic of the wrong dog’s life chest
Or bury it at sea
All my life I’ve searched for this

Here I am here I am in your life
It’s a beautiful life
My life
It’s a beautiful life
Your life

Copyright © R.E.M./Athens Ltd.

No Official Releases named ‘Hairshirt’

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Green (CD Album)
Australia – 9257952
released: unknown

• 1. Pop Song 89
• 2. Get Up
• 3. You Are The Everything
• 4. Stand
• 5. World Leader Pretend
• 6. The Wrong Child
• 7. Orange Crush
• 8. Turn You Inside Out
• 9. Hairshirt
• 10. I Remember California
• 11. Eleventh Untitled Song

Double Dois : Green and New Adventures in Hi-Fi (CD Album)
ARG –
released: unknown

• 1. Pop Song 89
• 2. Get Up
• 3. You Are The Everything
• 4. Stand
• 5. World Leader Pretend
• 6. The Wrong Child
• 7. Orange Crush
• 8. Turn You Inside Out
• 9. Hairshirt
• 10. I Remember California
• 11. Eleventh Untitled Song

Green & Out Of Time (CD Album)
Australia – 9362460742
released: unknown

• 1. Pop Song 89
• 2. Get Up
• 3. You Are The Everything
• 4. Stand
• 5. World Leader Pretend
• 6. The Wrong Child
• 7. Orange Crush
• 8. Turn You Inside Out
• 9. Hairshirt
• 10. I Remember California
• 11. Eleventh Untitled Song
• 12. Radio Song
• 13. Losing My Religion
• 14. Low
• 15. Near Wild Heaven
• 16. Endgame
• 17. Shiny Happy People
• 18. Belong
• 19. Half A World Away
• 20. Texarcana
• 21. Country Feedback
• 22. Me In Honey

Hail! Hail! Rock And Roll Vol. 2 (Bootleg CD Album)
CFC – 010
released: unknown
Recorded: Athens Music Festival – 9/25/88

• 1. Ain’t No Sunshine
• 2. First We Take Manhattan
• 3. Hairshirt
• 4. I’ll Give You My Skin
• 5. Midnight Train To Georgia
• 6. Prince Of Darkness
• 7. Eleventh Untitled Song
• 8. Kid Fears
• 9. Harpers
• 10. All Along The Watchtower
• 11. Dark Globe
• 12. Summertime
• 13. Disturbance At The Heron House
• 14. Don’t Talk
• 15. Hello In There