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Lyrics

This here is the place I will be staying.
There isn’t a number. You can call the pay phone.
Let it ring a long, long, long, long time.
If I don’t pick up, hang up, call back, let it ring some more.
If I don’t pick up, pick up… The sidewinder sleeps, sleeps, sleeps in a coil

Call me when you try to wake her up. Call me when you try to wake her.
Call me when you try to wake her up. Call me when you try to wake her.
Call me when you try to wake her up. Call me when you try to wake her.

There are scratches all around the coin slot
Like a heartbeat, baby trying to wake up,
But this machine can only swallow money.
You can’t lay a patch by computer design.
It’s just a lot of stupid, stupid signs.

Tell her,
Tell her she can kiss my ass, then laugh and say that you were only kidding.
That way she’ll know that it’s really, really, really, really me.

Call me when you try to wake her up. Call me when you try to wake her.
Call me when you try to wake her up. Call me when you try to wake her.
Call me when you try to wake her up. Call me when you try to wake her.

Baby, instant soup doesn’t really grab me.
Today I need something more sub-sub-sub-substantial.
A can of beans or blackeyed peas, some Nescafe and ice,
A candy bar, a falling star, or a reading of Doctor Seuss;

Call me when you try to wake her up. Call me when you try to wake her.
Call me when you try to wake her up. Call me when you try to wake her.
Call me when you try to wake her up. Call me when you try to wake her.

The cat in the hat came back, wrecked a lot of havoc on the way,
Always had a smile and a reason to pretend.
But their world has flat backgrounds and little need to sleep but to dream.
The sidewinder sleeps on his back.

Call me when you try to wake her up. Call me when you try to wake her.
Call me when you try to wake her up. Call me when you try to wake her.
I can always sleep standing up. Call me when you try to wake her.
Call me when you try to wake her up. Call me when you try to wake her.
Call me when you try to wake her up. Call me when you try to wake her.
I can always sleep standing up. Call me when you try to wake her.
Call me when you try to wake her up. Call me when you try to wake her.
I can always sleep standing up. Call me when you try to wake her.
I can always sleep standing up. Call me when you try to wake her.

We’ve got to moogie, moogie, move on this one.

Copyright © R.E.M./Athens Ltd.

13 Official Releases

The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite (7” Single)
Germany – 5439-18597-7

The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite (7” Single)
USA – 7-18523

The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite (7” Single)
UK – W0152

The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite (Maxi Cassette)
USA – 4-18523

The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite (Maxi Cassette)
UK – W0152C

The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite (Maxi CD)
USA – 5439-18523-2
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The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite (Maxi CD)
Germany – 9362-40769-2 | W0152CD2

The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite (Maxi CD)
France – 9362-40769-9

The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite (Maxi CD)
Germany – 9362-40770-2 | W0152CD1

The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite (Maxi CD)
Australia – 9362-4077-0-2

The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite (Maxi CD)
Germany – 9362-40782-2

The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite (Promotional Maxi CD)
France – PRO 2007-2

The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite (Promotional Maxi CD)
USA – PRO-CD-5903

‘The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite’ is also available on

Hit Collection 2000 (Promotional Maxi CD)

released: unknown

• 1. The Great Beyond
• 2. Man On The Moon
• 3. Bang And Blame
• 4. Draggin’ The Line
• 5. Daysleeper
• 6. Nightswimming
• 7. Everybody Hurts
• 8. Losing My Religion
• 9. Strange Currencies
• 10. Shiny Happy People
• 11. Lotus
• 12. Drive
• 13. E-Bow The Letter
• 14. Electrolite
• 15. Radio Free Europe
• 16. The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
• 17. What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?

Automatic For The People (CD Album)

released: unknown

• 1. Drive
• 2. Try Not To Breathe
• 3. The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
• 4. Everybody Hurts
• 5. New Orleans Instrumental No. 1
• 6. Monty Got A Raw Deal
• 7. Sweetness Follows
• 8. Ignoreland
• 9. Star Me Kitten
• 10. Man On The Moon
• 11. Nightswimming
• 12. Find The River

Automatic For The People + Monster (CD Album)
2 202940 049356
released: unknown

• 1. Drive
• 2. Try Not To Breathe
• 3. The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
• 4. Everybody Hurts
• 5. New Orleans Instrumental No. 1
• 6. Monty Got A Raw Deal
• 7. Sweetness Follows
• 8. Ignoreland
• 9. Star Me Kitten
• 10. Man On The Moon
• 11. Nightswimming
• 12. Find The River
• 13. What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?
• 14. Crush With Eyeliner
• 15. I Don’t Sleep, I Dream
• 16. King Of Comedy
• 17. Star 69
• 18. Strange Currencies
• 19. Tongue
• 20. I Took Your Name
• 21. Bang And Blame
• 22. Let Me In
• 23. Circus Envy
• 24. You

1998 The Greatest Hits Collection (Bootleg CD Album)
Bulgaria –
released: unknown

• 1. Losing My Religion
• 2. Man On The Moon
• 3. What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?
• 4. Shiny Happy People
• 5. Drive
• 6. E-Bow The Letter
• 7. Radio Free Europe
• 8. Everybody Hurts
• 9. Bang And Blame
• 10. Radio Song
• 11. The One I Love
• 12. The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
• 13. Electrolite
• 14. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
• 15. Talk About The Passion
• 16. Near Wild Heaven
• 17. Nightswimming

Draggin’ The Line – Greatest Hits ’99 (Bootleg CD Album)

released: unknown

• 1. Daysleeper
• 2. Draggin’ The Line
• 3. Everybody Hurts
• 4. Losing My Religion
• 5. Man On The Moon
• 6. Strange Currencies
• 7. Shiny Happy People
• 8. Lotus
• 9. Suspicion
• 10. Drive
• 11. What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?
• 12. E-Bow The Letter
• 13. Electrolite
• 14. Radio Free Europe
• 15. Nightswimming
• 16. The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
• 17. The One I Love

Gold (Bootleg CD Album)
WH 200297U
released: unknown
Recorded: Unknown Origins.

• 1. Shiny Happy People
• 2. Everybody Hurts
• 3. What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?
• 4. E-Bow The Letter
• 5. Losing My Religion
• 6. Man On The Moon
• 7. Radio Free Europe
• 8. The One I Love
• 9. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
• 10. Bang And Blame
• 11. Drive
• 12. Radio Song
• 13. Electrolite
• 14. Talk About The Passion
• 15. Near Wild Heaven
• 16. The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
• 17. Near Wild Heaven
• 18. Nightswimming

The Greatest Hits Collection 1998 (Bootleg CD Album)
WH 970427
released: unknown
Recorded: Various

• 1. Losing My Religion
• 2. Man On The Moon
• 3. What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?
• 4. Shiny Happy People
• 5. Drive
• 6. E-Bow The Letter
• 7. Radio Free Europe
• 8. Everybody Hurts
• 9. Bang And Blame
• 10. Radio Song
• 11. The One I Love
• 12. The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
• 13. Electrolite
• 14. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
• 15. Talk About The Passion
• 16. Near Wild Heaven
• 17. Nightswimming