Song Meaning: R.E.M.

[meesterperfect]

I like REM.
they got some good stuff.
I like interpreting songs too
this ones got me baffled.

In this song, what the hek is STIPE singing about?
any interpretations? ( I think its a cool song).
The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
video
http://www.spike.com/video/sidewinder-sleeps/2478580
lyrics
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/r/rem/the+sidewinder+sleeps+tonite_20113027.html

And no, he's not callin Jamaica.

 

[Dean Wormer]

Sidewinder missile? Anti-war song maybe?

 

[Wainkerr99]

I always just thought it's a young guy who has started out in life. He has himself an apartment, got a girlfriend, sort of, somewhere else, maybe a job at an ad agency or some other artistic thing. Just young people chilling and meeting life.

Other than that, no friggin' clue. That whole sidewinder thing has me.

 

[meesterperfect]

i think sidewinder is referring to the telephone cord.

 

[Wainkerr99]

Ah, that makes sense.

 

[BlueBalls]

It just seems to me like a bunch of words strung together:

I am without wine right now
the telephone doesnt ring
if you had a piece of cheese would you share it
animals make the best partners, in heaven
my name once ment many things to you
with or without you now
my penis hurts

.... etc etc, who says song writing is difficult?






Put a kind of up beat guitar riff to that and get Michael Stipe to sing it, you got yourself a hit.