Can't Get There From Here

Album: Fables of the Reconstruction (1985)
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  • Lyrics currently unavailable Writer/s: Bill Berry, Michael Mills, Michael Stipe, Peter Buck
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

Comments: 6

  • Spoke from AtlantaLawyer Jeff is NOT Jefferson Holt. Lawyer Jeff is attorney Jeff Gilley, a friend of the band. (He is credited on the Reckoning album as "Interloper.")
  • Juan from Sacramento, CaIn this youtube video from October 2, 1985 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYOxK5TEwJ4&feature=related it is indeed Michael Stipe singing the song "Can't Get There From Here".
  • Andrei from Chicago, IlAccording to book "R.E.M. Inside Out" the falcetto IS from Michael Stipe. And that's what he said: "I figured out that I had all these different voices in me, and maybe one of the first songs I tried using more than one oÃ? two of those voices at a time was on 'Can't Get There From Here'."
  • Holly from Nottingham, EnglandI remember reading they wrote it as a joke about the fact that someone they knew (Bertis Downs maybe), when asked for directions anywhere, would say "You can't get there from here."
  • Terry from Ocean Springs, Ms"Lawyer Jeff" is REM friend, Jefferson Holt, who is also mentioned in the Reckoning album's song "Little America" when Stipe sings "Jefferson, I think we're lost." Anyways, I think that's right.
  • Bob from Apple Valley, MnThe falsetto is from Mike Mills, not Michael Stipe.
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