Overview

• Stipe has been using BlueSky to clarify rapid-fire lines from the 1987 song, adding new corrections over the weekend.
• He confirmed lines such as “Feed it off an aux, speak, grunt no strength, the ladder start to clatter with fear fight down height, wire in a fire representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site.”
• He also posted “Uh-oh, overflow, population ‘common food, but it’ll do,’ save yourself, serve yourself, world serves its own needs—listen to your heart bleed, dummy with the raptured and the revered and the right, right.”
• Mike Mills replied that he remembered one line as “that low plane, fine, then,” citing a roadside warning, and Stipe acknowledged the uncertainty.
• Stipe told fans not to sweat exact words on early releases like Chronic Town, Murmur, and Reckoning, while coverage noted widely used listings such as Genius contained errors.