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R.E.M., "7 Chinese Bros."
(1984)

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 to 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 waited hold it to you in the colored come another

Seven Chinese brothers swallowing the ocean
Seven thousand years the commune did reign
She will return, she will return, she will return


Thanks, Dru! She also sent along this Michael Stipe quote from Spin magazine: "'7 Chinese Brothers' was about me breaking up a couple and then dating both of them--a man and a woman--which is a terrible thing to do. But I was young and stupid."

Terrible, maybe, but also kind of unexpectedly studly.