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I am a pretty big R.E.M.<\/a> fan. I have all their CDs, lots of special releases and a bunch of bootlegs. I have seen them in concert seven times, know a lot of useless trivia about them and have bought some cool merchandise on eBay to decorate my basement.<\/p>\n

But I just learned one of the coolest fun facts (at least to me) about one of their lyrics yesterday.<\/p>\n

I was listening to the bootleg of the shows they did in Dublin last month<\/a>. They peppered their new material with some pretty old songs, including “Second Guessing,” which appeared on Reckoning<\/a>, their second album.<\/p>\n

As Michael Stipe introduced the song, he talks about how songwriters write themselves into songs. Instead of doing that, he says, he used the names of the other three members of the band.<\/p>\n

Every lyric service online I could find lists the last line of the third verse as ” Be in my club, write a book this season” when, I now know that it is “Peter, Mike and Bill, write a book this season.” Unless Stipe is revising history. Which has happened before. Either way, it’s pretty cool. Watch it below.<\/p>\n