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Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about Losing My Religion (page 1/1) ------ performed by R.E.M. religion means love of course! | Reviewer: Anonymous | 11/19/09 so when i say religion is stupid i mean love is stupid, at least the love for religion. don't take me wrong, i think religion is a great thing, and it has AWESOME POWER! like the ability to convince yourself that "losing my religion" means "losing love" and that a magical space daddy exists. The world has certain truths, deal with it, some are unpleasant, like that a song can be good even if you don't agree with the lyrics. Been there, done that | Reviewer: pjr | 7/24/09 Funny, but I remember this song from 1991. When it was popular I was going through exactly what he was singing about. Lost love, one that may or may not have even been real. You'll abandon all of your core beliefs just to hang onto it--losing your religion. You say too much, not enough at the same time. Nothing you can do is right, that was just a dream, just a dream. If you're going through that right now, just DON'T LISTEN to this song. It will make you dwell on it, and the melody and the mandolin in the background just locks itself into your brain preventing you from letting the pain go. Move on. To this day that mandolin takes me back to the pain even though I've let it all go. I guess that's a sign of a very successful song and composer. I believe it is about what I am experiencing... | Reviewer: Thomas Gottfried | 9/12/08 This song speaks directly to me, at this time of my life. I think love, if you feel it in the deepest, most personal level of yourself (Ger.: "selbst" as opposed to "ich/es" =id and "über-ich"), is something so near to you that it becomes a part of you. As religion does to those who *really believe*. It is God-like, it is a close as we come to an ultimate truth. People who have religion say, "God is love." The sentiment in the song is, to me, about the realization that the thing I believed in either - *isn't* there, or - "apparently" *isn't* there, or - maybe never was there... The general tone of both the music and the lyrics is one of utter loss, sadness, disbelief, and confusion. The confusion you feel when this happens to you, when you have this extremely discomforting "revelation", is beautifully expressed in lines such as I thought that I heard you laughing I thought that I heard you sing I think I thought I saw you try When you lose a love that touched you to the core -- but you might never have really had -- you are so confused that every signal, every thing that ever happened becomes questionable, and it is enough to drive you mad. You have no clear orientation, and it seems like it was all "just a dream". I had never really listened to this song very closely or exactly before this all started occurring in my life. Then it just popped into my head and I knew that R.E.M. had already put my feelings to words and music. Stipe's explanation about it being a "classic obsession love song" is also valid, when this started to happen, I almost automatically slipped into an obsessive state, doing everything and anything to stop her from going, thus: Trying to keep up with you And I don't know if I can do it Oh no, I've said too much I haven't said enough Whatever you say isn't enough for you and yet is too much, you are left feeling helpless and powerless. Some of the most heartfelt and gripping song lyrics I have ever heard. The meaning | Reviewer: AssToMouth | 8/11/08 In the song, Michael Stipe sings the lines "That's me in the corner/That's me in the spotlight/Losing my religion". The phrase "losing my religion" is an expression from the southern region of the United States that means losing one's temper or civility, or "being at the end of one's rope." Stipe told The New York Times the song was about romantic expression.[5] He told Q that "Losing My Religion" is about "someone who pines for someone else. It's unrequited love, what have you."[6] Stipe compared the song's theme to "Every Breath You Take" by The Police, saying, "It's just a classic obsession pop song. I've always felt the best kinds of songs are the ones where anybody can listen to it, put themselves in it and say, 'Yeah, that's me.'"[7] a personal favourite | Reviewer: abhijit | 3/29/08 best song lyrics ever.communicates on so many levels.i have read so many interpretations of this song,all different and all of them, very possible.a real masterpiece from rem.the composition is awesome as well,lyrics,even better.what i think this song refers to is about going overboard,inspite of not wanting to,and then regretting if he had crossed the line somewhere. Maning of 'Losing My Religion' | Reviewer: Anonymous | 1/10/08 Sometimes when you're trying to cling on and stay together with someone you say something that makes you sound desperate to stay with them, and sometimes you get that sinking feeling immediately afterwards where you think you said do much and know they might think you can just mess you about, so might cause you to do something you feel is wrong- make you lose your religion. That's what I think this song is all about. An awesome song i believe it means... | Reviewer: Anonymous | 12/3/07 ...that as a society, we all do thing that we know aren't right...but it gets us in the spotlight so we do it anyways. Then there are some who know situations are wrong and are afraid to say "NO." or "it's against my religion" because of what people might say,think, even "laugh". So i think that's where:"I said too much" came from. Trying to keep up with you (YOU as in society)but i don't know if i can do it... Then the part where he is choosing his confession to God every waking hour...he's making his choices from right to wrong.He says toward the end, what if all of it is not real?...What if it comes down on me and then i've said too much..what would i look like. It would've been just a dream...all the thoughts cause him to drift from his religion...he's losing his religion! Now i could be really wrong but that's what i got from the song! It's great i love it! Meaning of "Losing My Religion"/Great Song | Reviewer: Ryan Matthews | 9/25/07 According to what I heard at a radio convention many years ago, the phrase "Losing My Religion" refers to an old Southern United States/Bible Belt expression for going insane/losing one's mind. The reasoning behind that expression is that when one loses God or Faith, they often "go out of their mind/lose all direction", therefore "Losing Their Relgion". In my opinion, "Losing My Religion" is probably one of the best songs ever written, despite me not being extremely religious. As a DJ at an AC 40 station, I still feel it is just as popular today as it was when it was released in 1991--Ryan Matthews 7level to god | Reviewer: Anonymous | 5/26/07 it is about 4th level to god!! when u for first time see(feel) god then its seems u go under in darkness. it is cuz of light!,u look @ sun & then cant see any thing,but sun still is shining. this lyric is an objection to god about darkness. Add Your New Review About The Song