Seven Chinese Bros.
Lyrics
This mellow, sweet, short-haired boy, woman offers pull up a seat
Take in one symphony now, we’ve just begun to battle
Wrap your heel in bones of steel, turn the leg, a twist of color
Autumn waited hold it to you in the colored come another
Seven Chinese brothers swallowing the ocean
Seven thousand years to sleep away the pain
She will return, she will return
This mellow, sweet, short-haired boy, woman offers pull up a seat
Take in one symphony now, we’ve just begun to battle
Wrap your heel in bones of steel, turn the leg, a twist of color
Autumn waded seven seas swimming colored come another
Seven Chinese brothers swallowing the ocean
Seven thousand years to sleep away the pain
She will return, she will return
This mellow, sweet, short-haired boy, woman offers pull up a chair
Take in one symphony now, I guess we lost that battle
Wrap your heel in bones of steel, turn the leg, a twist of color
Autumn waded seven seas swimming colored come another
Seven Chinese brothers swallowing the ocean
Seven thousand years the Communi did reign
She will return, she will return
Copyright © R.E.M./Athens Ltd.
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Reckoning (CD Album)Netherlands – 0777 7 13159 23
released: unknown
Re-Issue
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
Blue (Bootleg LP)SPLIFF001
released: unknown
- 1. Moral Kiosk
- 2. Driver 8
- 3. Hyena
- 4. Camera
- 5. Pilgrimage
- 6. Talk About The Passion
- 7. Seven Chinese Bros.
- 8. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
- 9. Pretty Persuasion
- 10. Gardening At Night
- 11. 9-9
- 12. Windout
- 13. Old Man Kensey
- 14. Radio Free Europe
- 15. Little America
- 16. Burning Down
- 17. Pale Blue Eyes
- 18. 1,000,000
- 19. So You Want To Be A Rock ‘N’ Roll Star
- 20. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
Can’t Get There From Here (Bootleg LP)KAXY 002
released: unknown
Recorded: Live at Hammersmith Palais Ballroom, London 10/28/85.
- 1. Feeling Gravitys Pull
- 2. Harborcoat
- 3. Green Grow the Rushes
- 4. Maps And Legends
- 5. Pilgrimage
- 6. Driver 8
- 7. Sitting Still
- 8. Good Advices
- 9. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
- 10. Have You Ever Seen The Rain?
- 11. Can’t Get There From Here
- 12. Seven Chinese Bros.
- 13. Auctioneer (Another Engine)
- 14. Old Man Kensey
- 15. Pretty Persuasion
- 16. Life And How To Live It
- 17. Second Guessing
- 18. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 19. Toys In The Attic
- 20. Radar Love
- 21. Burning Hell
- 22. Talk About The Passion
- 23. Little America
L.I.V.E. (Bootleg LP)BANDIDO (LTD B006)
released: unknown
Recorded: 4/8/83, University of Rochester, New York NY. First known R.E.M. Boot to be released.
- 1. Moral Kiosk
- 2. Catapult
- 3. Pilgrimage
- 4. Seven Chinese Bros.
- 5. Wolves, Lower
- 6. Talk About The Passion
- 7. Gardening At Night
- 8. 9-9
- 9. West Of The Fields
- 10. Radio Free Europe
Mada Mada (Bootleg LP)TRW (1906)
released: unknown
Recorded: (1) 7/9/83 – Larry\s Hideaway, (2) Reflection Studios Outtakes, (3) Trenton NJ 10/2/82
- 1. Laughing
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 2. Pilgrimage
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 3. There She Goes Again
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 4. Seven Chinese Bros.
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 5. Talk About The Passion
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 6. Sitting Still
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 7. Harborcoat
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 8. Catapult
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 9. Gardening At Night
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 10. 9-9
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 11. Just A Touch
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 12. West Of The Fields
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 13. Radio Free Europe
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 14. We Walk
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 15. 1,000,000
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 16. There She Goes Again
Reflection Studios Outtakes - 17. Tighten Up
Reflection Studios Outtakes - 18. All The Right Friends
Reflection Studios Outtakes - 19. Romance
live recorded at: 1982-10-02 in Trenton - 20. 1,000,000
live recorded at: 1982-10-02 in Trenton - 21. Pretty Persuasion
live recorded at: 1982-10-02 in Trenton - 22. Ages Of You
live recorded at: 1982-10-02 in Trenton - 23. Pilgrimage
live recorded at: 1982-10-02 in Trenton - 24. Wolves, Lower
live recorded at: 1982-10-02 in Trenton
20th Century Boys – Vol.2 (Bootleg CD Album)released: unknown
Recorded: tracks 1-7 were recorded live at Stichcraft in Athens on 9/30/83. Tracks 8-26 were recorded live at Tyrone\s Club, Athens, GA, October 4, 1980.
- 1. Rave On
- 2. 20th Century Boy
- 3. Seven Chinese Bros.
- 4. Crazy
- 5. That Beat
- 6. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 7. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
- 8. Just A Touch
- 9. A Girl Like You
- 10. Dangerous Times
- 11. There She Goes Again
- 12. All The Right Friends
- 13. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 14. Body Count
- 15. Hippy Hippy Shake
- 16. Action
- 17. Narrator
- 18. Pretty Girl (Hey, Hey Nadine)
- 19. Gardening At Night
- 20. Scheherazade
- 21. Lisa Says
- 22. Mystery To Me
- 23. (I’m Not Your) Stepping Stone
- 24. Permanent Vacation
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
Boston 1984 (Bootleg CD Album)MM 9116
released: unknown
Recorded 6/27/84, Seattle, WA
- 1. Moral Kiosk
- 2. Driver 8
- 3. Hyena
- 4. Camera
- 5. Pilgrimage
- 6. Talk About The Passion
- 7. Seven Chinese Bros.
- 8. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
- 9. Pretty Persuasion
- 10. Gardening At Night
- 11. 9-9
- 12. Windout
- 13. Old Man Kensey
- 14. Radio Free Europe
- 15. Little America
- 16. Burning Down
- 17. Pale Blue Eyes
- 18. 1,000,000
- 19. So You Want To Be A Rock ‘N’ Roll Star
- 20. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
Carnival Of Sorts (Bootleg CD Album)JOK-017-B
released: unknown
Recorded: 9:30 Club, Washington, D.C., 3/12/83
- 1. Gardening At Night
- 2. 9-9
- 3. Catapult
- 4. Pilgrimage
- 5. Seven Chinese Bros.
- 6. Laughing
- 7. Wolves, Lower
- 8. Romance
- 9. Sitting Still
- 10. 1,000,000
- 11. West Of The Fields
- 12. Radio Free Europe
- 13. Last Date
- 14. Ages Of You
- 15. We Walk
- 16. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
DISTURBANCES (Bootleg CD Album)CA 784A
released: unknown
Recorded Live: Chicago 7/84.
- 1. Letter Never Sent
- 2. I Believe
- 3. Driver 8
- 4. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
- 5. Seven Chinese Bros.
- 6. Harborcoat
- 7. Hyena
- 8. Femme Fatale
- 9. Radio Free Europe
- 10. Gardening At Night
- 11. 9-9
- 12. Windout
- 13. Little America
- 14. Second Guessing
- 15. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
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
Listen Harder (Bootleg CD Album)??
released: unknown
Recorded: November 1982, Opera House. Lawrence, KS, Tracks (14 -19 ) Larry\s Hideaway 6/83.
- 1. Gardening At Night
- 2. 9-9
- 3. Moral Kiosk
- 4. Pilgrimage
- 5. Shaking Through
- 6. Seven Chinese Bros.
- 7. Wolves, Lower
- 8. Romance
- 9. Sitting Still
- 10. Pretty Persuasion
- 11. Catapult
- 12. 1,000,000
- 13. Radio Free Europe
- 14. Wolves, Lower
- 15. Moral Kiosk
- 16. Laughing
- 17. Pilgrimage
- 18. Moon River
- 19. There She Goes Again
Monument Valley (Bootleg CD Album)IBR2275
released: unknown
Recorded: 7/9/83 – Larry\s Hideaway FM Broadcast.
- 1. Laughing
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 2. Pilgrimage
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 3. There She Goes Again
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 4. Seven Chinese Bros.
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 5. Talk About The Passion
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 6. Sitting Still
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 7. Harborcoat
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 8. Catapult
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 9. Gardening At Night
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 10. 9-9
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 11. Just A Touch
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 12. West Of The Fields
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 13. Radio Free Europe
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 14. We Walk
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 15. 1,000,000
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto

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