Sitting Still
Lyrics
This name I got we all agreed
See could stop stop it will red
We could bind it in the scythe
We could gather, throw a fit
Up to buy, Katie buys a kitchen-size, but not me in
Setting trap for the big kill, waste o’ time, sitting still
I’m the sun and you can read.
I’m the sign and you’re not deaf.
We could bind it in the scythe.
We could gather, throw a fit.
Up to buy, Katie buys a kitchen-size, but not me in
Setting trap for the big kill, waste o’ time, sitting still
I-I-I can hear. I-I-I can hear. I-I-I can hear.
This name I got we all agreed
See could stop stop it will red
We could bind it in the cist
We could gather, throw a fit.
Up to buy, Katie buys a kitchen-size, but not me in
Setting trap for the big kill, waste o’ time, sitting still
I-I-I can hear. I-I-I can hear. I-I-I can hear.
You can gather when I talk, talk until you’re blue
You could get away from me. Get away from me.
I’m up to buy, Katie buys a kitchen-size, but not me in
Setting trap for the big kill, waste o’ time, sitting still
I-I-I can hear. I-I-I can hear. I-I-I can hear.
I-I-I can hear. I-I-I can hear. I-I-I can hear.
Can you hear me?
Copyright © R.E.M./Athens Ltd.
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Live In Chicago ()JUKE BOX RECORDS LONDON (XL2)
released: unknown
Recorded: 7/7/84 Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL, 9/6/84 New Jersey
- 1. Femme Fatale
- 2. Radio Free Europe
- 3. Gardening At Night
- 4. Sitting Still
- 5. Pale Blue Eyes
- 6. So You Want To Be A Rock ‘N’ Roll Star
- 7. 9-9
- 8. Windout
- 9. Driver 8
- 10. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
- 11. Harborcoat
- 12. Hyena
- 13. Pretty Persuasion
Murmur (CD Album)Netherlands – 0777 7 13158 24
released: unknown
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- 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
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
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
Down South (Bootleg LP)FTP (0010)
released: unknown
Recorded: Live 1981-82
Georgia Peaches Ripe! (Bootleg LP)REM-7
released: unknown
- 1. Rave On
- 2. Burning Down
- 3. A Girl Like You
- 4. Get On their Way (What If We Give It Away?)
- 5. There She Goes Again
- 6. Pretty Persuasion
- 7. Body Count
- 8. A Different Girl
- 9. Action
- 10. Narrator
- 11. Hey! Hey! Nadine
- 12. Baby I
- 13. Permanent Vacation
- 14. Radio Free Europe
- 15. Sitting Still
- 16. Dangerous Times
- 17. All The Right Friends
- 18. Shaking Through
- 19. Hey Little Girl
- 20. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 21. Windout
- 22. Gardening At Night
- 23. Scheherazade
- 24. Lisa Says
- 25. Mystery To Me
- 25. White Tornado
Ripe! Georgia Peaches (Bootleg LP)REM-7
released: unknown
Recorded: Live at Tyrone\s, April 10, 1981
- 1. Rave On
- 2. Burning Down
- 3. A Girl Like You
- 4. Get On their Way (What If We Give It Away?)
- 5. There She Goes Again
- 6. Pretty Persuasion
- 7. Body Count
- 8. A Different Girl
- 9. Action
- 10. Narrator
- 11. Hey! Hey! Nadine
- 12. Baby I
- 13. Permanent Vacation
- 14. Radio Free Europe
- 15. Sitting Still
- 16. Dangerous Times
- 17. All The Right Friends
- 18. Shaking Through
- 19. Hey Little Girl
- 20. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 21. Windout
- 22. Gardening At Night
- 23. Scheherazade
- 24. Lisa Says
- 25. Mystery To Me
- 25. White Tornado
Ripe! The Georgia Peaches (Bootleg LP)CYCLER-T-80
released: unknown
Recorded: Live at Tyrone\s, April 10, 1981
- 1. Rave On
- 2. Burning Down
- 3. A Girl Like You
- 4. Get On their Way (What If We Give It Away?)
- 5. There She Goes Again
- 6. Pretty Persuasion
- 7. Body Count
- 8. A Different Girl
- 9. Action
- 10. Narrator
- 11. Hey! Hey! Nadine
- 12. Baby I
- 13. Permanent Vacation
- 14. Radio Free Europe
- 15. Sitting Still
- 16. Dangerous Times
- 17. All The Right Friends
- 18. Shaking Through
- 19. Hey Little Girl
- 20. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 21. Windout
- 22. Gardening At Night
- 23. Scheherazade
- 24. Lisa Says
- 25. Mystery To Me
- 25. White Tornado
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
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live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 7. Harborcoat
live recorded at: 1983-07-09 in Toronto - 8. Catapult
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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
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live recorded at: 1982-10-02 in Trenton
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
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- 2. Radio Free Europe
- 3. Gardening At Night
- 4. 9-9
- 5. Windout
- 6. Letter Never Sent
- 7. Sitting Still
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- 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
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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?
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released: unknown
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- 3. Windout
- 4. Old Man Kensey
- 5. Auctioneer (Another Engine)
- 6. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
- 7. Talk About The Passion
- 8. Harborcoat
- 9. Hyena
- 10. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 11. Sitting Still
- 12. Driver 8
- 13. Catapult
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- 16. Little America
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- 19. Femme Fatale
Carnival Of Sorts (Bootleg CD Album)Italy – GDR CD 9020
released: unknown
Recorded: Merlins in Madison, WI, 4/24/82.
- 1. Gardening At Night
- 2. 9-9
- 3. Ages Of You
- 4. Shaking Through
- 5. Laughing
- 6. Romance
- 7. Sitting Still
- 8. Pretty Persuasion
- 9. That Beat
- 10. Catapult
- 11. Radio Free Europe
- 12. Wolves, Lower
- 13. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
- 14. White Tornado
- 15. West Of The Fields
- 16. Stumble
- 17. Skank
- 18. There She Goes Again
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)
Do The Strand (Bootleg CD Album)released: unknown
Recorded: Strand Cabaret, Marietta, GA, July 2, 1982
- 1. West Of The Fields
- 2. Shaking Through
- 3. Pilgrimage
- 4. Romance
- 5. We Walk
- 6. Wolves, Lower
- 7. That Beat
- 8. Pretty Persuasion
- 9. Sitting Still
- 10. 1,000,000
- 11. Gardening At Night
- 12. 9-9
- 13. There She Goes Again
- 14. Catapult
- 15. Radio Free Europe
- 16. Perfect Circle
- 17. Laughing
- 18. Moral Kiosk
- 19. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
- 20. Crazy
File Under Kudzu (Bootleg CD Album)BPP-001
released: unknown
Recorded: January 1982, Fridays, Greensboro, NC + Bonus Tracks.
- 1. Gardening At Night
- 2. 9-9
- 3. Windout
- 4. New Song
- 5. There She Goes Again
- 6. Sitting Still
- 7. That Beat
- 8. Pretty Persuasion
- 9. Mystery To Me
- 10. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
- 11. Ages Of You
- 12. Catapult
- 13. Shaking Through
- 14. Laughing
- 15. Romance
- 16. Ghost Riders In The Sky
- 17. Permanent Vacation
- 18. 1,000,000
- 19. Wolves, Lower
- 20. Radio Free Europe
- 21. All The Right Friends
Bonus Track - 22. Wait
Bonus Track - 23. Body Count
Bonus Track
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
The Green World Tour (Bootleg CD Album)France – RS CD18
released: unknown
Recorded: Perugia Palasport (Italy) – June 17, 1989
- 1. Pop Song 89
- 2. These Days
- 3. Exhuming McCarthy
- 4. Turn You Inside Out
- 5. Orange Crush
- 6. Disturbance At The Heron House
- 7. Feeling Gravitys Pull
- 8. King Of Birds
- 9. Shaking Through
- 10. World Leader Pretend
- 11. Finest Worksong
- 12. Underneath The Bunker
- 13. Sitting Still
- 14. Get Up
- 15. Auctioneer (Another Engine)
- 16. It’s The End Of The World As We Know It
- 17. Stand
In The Wood (Bootleg CD Album)BGS004
released: unknown
Recorded: 11/21/84 Rock City, Nottingham, UK
- 1. Hyena
- 2. Talk About The Passion
- 3. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 4. Auctioneer (Another Engine)
- 5. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
- 6. Sitting Still
- 7. Old Man Kensey
- 8. Gardening At Night
- 9. 9-9
- 10. Windout
- 11. Driver 8
- 12. Pretty Persuasion
- 13. Radio Free Europe
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
Live At Yokohama (Bootleg CD Album)BZCD 009
released: unknown
Recorded: 11/10/84 Yokohama University
- 1. Gardening At Night
- 2. 9-9
- 3. Old Man Kensey
- 4. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
- 5. Auctioneer (Another Engine)
- 6. Talk About The Passion
- 7. Harborcoat
- 8. Hyena
- 9. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 10. Sitting Still
- 11. Catapult
- 12. Chicken Train
- 13. Pretty Persuasion
- 14. Little America
- 15. Ghost Riders In The Sky
- 16. Second Guessing
- 17. Radio Free Europe
- 18. Femme Fatale
Monster Radio ’95 (Bootleg CD Album)PD 075/076
released: unknown
Recorded: 7/30/95, Milton Keynes: + 10 Early Tracks
- 1. What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?
- 2. Crush With Eyeliner
- 3. Drive
- 4. Turn You Inside Out
- 5. Try Not To Breathe
- 6. I Took Your Name
- 7. Undertow
- 8. Bang And Blame
- 9. I Don’t Sleep, I Dream
- 10. Strange Currencies
- 11. Revolution
- 12. Tongue
- 13. Man On The Moon
- 14. Country Feedback
- 15. Half A World Away
- 16. Losing My Religion
- 17. Pop Song 89
- 18. Finest Worksong
- 19. Get Up
- 20. Star 69
- 21. Let Me In
- 22. Everybody Hurts
- 23. Fall On Me
- 24. Departure
- 25. It’s The End Of The World As We Know It
- 26. West Of The Fields
- 27. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 28. Auctioneer (Another Engine)
- 29. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
- 30. Sitting Still
- 31. Driver 8
- 32. 9-9
- 33. Windout
- 34. Pretty Persuasion
- 35. Radio Free Europe
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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