REM: Losing My Religion Meaning
Song Released: 1991
Losing My Religion Lyrics
It's bigger than you
And you are not me
The lengths that I will go to
The distance in your eyes
Oh no, I've said too much
I set it up
That's me in the corner
That's me in the spotlight
Losing my religion
Trying to...
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This song seems to describe the end of a relationship, plain and simple.
"Life is bigger than you", "the distance in your eyes", etc, are just the author's realization of the end of his relationship. "That's me in the corner" describes isolation, "that's me in the spotlight" describes the focus of the disintegration being put solely on him, and he seems to compare his relationship metaphorically to a religion, saying that he had put all of his faith in something which is slipping away from him before his eyes.
This seems to be backed up by "trying to keep an eye on you", and "I think I thought I saw you try/but that was just a dream", saying that all of the effort to keep the relationship together was on him, and that he is finally giving up. -
This song is about the differences between men and women and that women are an unknown 'species' to men. He's saying that he can't get close to her or understand her.
"The lengths that I will go to, the distance in your eyes" this metaphor shows that he can never know what she's thinking because he looks into her eyes and there's a never-ending stream of thoughts.
"That's me in the corner, that's my in the spotlight, loising my religion". His religion is his woman, the person he loves, and he's watching himself lose her and he can't do anything about it. -
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