Letter Never Sent
Lyrics
It’s been pretty simple so far, vacation in Athens is calling me
And knock, knock, knock on wood, I thought I’d left you behind
Heaven is yours, heaven is yours, heaven’s yours where I live
The thought of the catacombs left my soul at home
This letter never sent
And it’s so far, it’s so dark, i’m so lost
Heaven’s yours, heaven’s yours, heaven’s yours where I live
(Another story, another story for a while, someone show me)
When I’m moving too fast, where’s my new address?
The water is evening now, the catacombs are filling in
If my soul was made of stone, no, not, not so dark, dark
And it’s so far, it’s so dark, i’m so lost
And it’s so far, it’s so far, it’s so far
Heaven’s yours, heaven’s yours, heaven’s yours where I live
(Another story, another story for a while, someone show me)
Heaven’s yours, heaven’s yours, heaven’s yours where I live
(Another story, another story for a while, someone show me)
Copyright © R.E.M./Athens Ltd.
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Reckoning (CD Album)Netherlands – 0777 7 13159 23
released: unknown
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Murmur / Reckoning (Cassette)UK –
released: unknown
- 1. Radio Free Europe
- 2. Pilgrimage
- 3. Laughing
- 4. Moral Kiosk
- 5. Perfect Circle
- 6. Catapult
- 7. Sitting Still
- 8. 9-9
- 9. Shaking Through
- 10. We Walk
- 11. West Of The Fields
- 12. Harborcoat
- 13. Seven Chinese Bros.
- 14. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
- 15. Pretty Persuasion
- 16. Time After Time (Annelise)
- 17. Letter Never Sent
- 18. Second Guessing
- 19. Camera
- 20. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 21. Little America
20th Century Boys – Vol.1 (Bootleg CD Album)released: unknown
Recorded live at Stichcraft in Athens on 9/30/83
- 1. I Got You Babe
- 2. Second Guessing
- 3. Harborcoat
- 4. Pretty Persuasion
- 5. Pills
- 6. 1,000,000
- 7. Camera
- 8. Talk About The Passion
- 9. Little America
- 10. All The Right Friends
- 11. Letter Never Sent
- 12. Just A Touch
- 13. Secret Agent Man
- 14. Hootenanny
- 15. Route 66
- 16. Windout
- 17. 9-9
- 18. Six Stock Answers
- 19. My Roof, Your Roof
- 20. Pale Blue Eyes
- 21. Tainted Obligation
- 22. Sweet Jane
Back To Rockville (Bootleg CD Album)FLASHBACK 01-95-0247
released: unknown
Recorded at Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL 7/784, Arsenio Hall – 10/17/89, MTV Awards 9/2/93
- 1. Femme Fatale
- 2. Radio Free Europe
- 3. Gardening At Night
- 4. 9-9
- 5. Windout
- 6. Letter Never Sent
- 7. Sitting Still
- 8. Driver 8
- 9. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
- 10. Seven Chinese Bros.
- 11. Voice of Harold
- 12. Harborcoat
- 13. Hyena
- 14. Pretty Persuasion
- 15. Second Guessing
- 16. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 17. Stand
live recorded at: 1989-10-17 in Hollywood - 18. Everybody Hurts
MTV Awards - 19. Drive
MTV Awards
Ballroom Dancing (Bootleg CD Album)released: unknown
Recorded at Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL 7/7/84, SNL 1994.
- 1. Femme Fatale
- 2. Radio Free Europe
- 3. Gardening At Night
- 4. 9-9
- 5. Windout
- 6. Letter Never Sent
- 7. Sitting Still
- 8. Driver 8
- 9. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
- 10. Seven Chinese Bros.
- 11. Voice of Harold
- 12. Harborcoat
- 13. Hyena
- 14. Pretty Persuasion
- 15. Second Guessing
- 16. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 17. What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?
live recorded at: 1994-11-12 in New York - 18. Bang And Blame
live recorded at: 1994-11-12 in New York - 19. I Don’t Sleep, I Dream
live recorded at: 1994-11-12 in New York - 20. Hello In There
Godzilla vs. REM’s Monster (Bootleg CD Album)Germany – TR009
released: unknown
Recorded: 1-16: Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL 7 July 1984., 17-19: Saturday Night Live, 12 Nov. 94. , 20: Scotland w/Billy Bragg, Natalie Merchant
- 1. Femme Fatale
- 2. Radio Free Europe
- 3. Gardening At Night
- 4. 9-9
- 5. Windout
- 6. Letter Never Sent
- 7. Sitting Still
- 8. Driver 8
- 9. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
- 10. Seven Chinese Bros.
- 11. Harborcoat
- 12. Hyena
- 13. Pretty Persuasion
- 14. Little America
- 15. Second Guessing
- 16. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 17. What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?
- 18. Bang And Blame
- 19. I Don’t Sleep, I Dream
- 20. Hello In There


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