Friday, 13 June 2008

REM Hollow Man

Interesting new song from REM...



If the rest of the album is as good, it will be worth getting. Interesting song to come from the poster boys of postmodern lyrics.

"What else does this craving, and this helplessness, proclaim but that there was once in man a true happiness, of which all that now remains is the empty print and trace? This he tries in vain to fill with everything around him, seeking in things that are not there the help he cannot find in those that are, though none can help, since this infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite and immutable object; in other words by God himself." - Blaise Pascal

"You have made us for yourself, and our hearts are rest-less till they find their rest in you." - Augustine

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