R.E.M. The One I Love Acoustic Live

[Kenya3131]

Is this version played a half step down?

[zombifiedconsumer]

this is just so addicting

[golgiandrea]

chords of this version????

[Fl00xX]

Tuning EADGB (from low to high)

basicly only

Em D Em 2x

G D C

Em D Em

You can look the exact chords up on ultimateguitar

[golgiandrea]

@Fl00xX thank u!!!

[KaiIkariify]

@Fl00xX The middle bit is actually G, D, C, Amin. Close though. There's a also a G-run when you go from Emin to D. It's important to get that, "DUN-DUN-DUN-DUN-DUN-DUUUUUUUN riff right"

[deadrabbit30]

Here's what wikipedia says :D :"Stipe related in 1987 to Rolling Stone, "I've always left myself pretty open to interpretation. It's probably better that they just think it's a love song at this point."[2] However, in an interview in the January 1988 issue of Musician magazine, he said that the song was "incredibly violent" and added, "It's very clear that it's about using people over and over again".[3]"

[JordinLOSERface]

The song isn't about love, you idiots.

[jatojo]

A must around the bonfire. :) Thanks for the music, guys.

[thisismyname4sho]

Really

Emazing

Music

[MissMaria1988]

Lost love <3

Or.... remembering love:) dreams and memories...

[VERDESMERALDA1]

ROLONONONONONON



[psynapsurfa]

simple, ...yet so deep.

its not just love,

but also,

it can also be about the sex.... using sex to occupy his time, when hes finished shes left behind, emotionally, mentally, physically.... over and over...

shes just a prop...

[Acoustici]

this one goes to a girl i met long time ago...

[216trixie]

Michael Stipe says this is a "violent" song, about using someone, over and over.

[ortodox09]

The question is,does he sing about a girl at all....

[diamondlotus3]

Love this accoustic version, thanks so much for posting

[sanborns]

Nice 12 string acoustic version!....

[esma123ful]

SO FANTASTIC SONG BY STIPE...

[pghcraig]

The tone of this song is more interesting considering he's gay. Prop probably not a girl. I wonder if Natalie Merchant was such a said prop or lie in creating some insanely stupid cover coming from a band that was so honest in their politics that flooded their music for as long as it has. We've all had to leave someone behind for one reason or another, and who hasn't needed that prop as they went through the motions and looked back in regret? Very few lyrics and yet this song says much.

[hmrhed43]

"A simple prop" refers to the song, not the girl. Hours of boredom on a bus requires a prop to alleviate boredom, so he sings a little something... "a simple prop."

[Dekoekkoekd]

@hmrhed43 incorrect.

[jgodbier]

does anyone have the video of this version?

[arizonabay15]

According to Stipe, the song is about "using people over and over again" in relationships. The backing vocal by Mills (not heard on this version) is "She's coming down on her own now".

[BedlamBeggar]

This is not James Blunt...

[nicholsjoshua15]

It is about being with someone he does not love ,and wanting to go back the lady he misstreated .Thta being said the one he is with now is ' a simple prop '. The alternaitive it is about his father who died of cancer from AGENT ORANGE,or 'ORANGE CRUSH'.(AGENT ORANGE , WAS A HERBACIDE USED IN THE VIETNAM WAR).

[andyrile58]

inspirational (cappo 9th em & d 9th)  x

[milesady]

phill halen,he means the song.

[slavedartDOTink]

its about being in love with someone, and leaving them. 'a simple prop to occupy my time'- convincing himself all she was was there to fill his time.

[beccaaa346]

I'm pretty sure this song is about stalking.

[Mrmadmouxe]

from document.A very great unplugged version>mxto

[bakfyterdotcom]

byutiful

[noreplygimp]

A Band Called Bert, Summertime

[Antonio331000]

Listen to the version of Primeiro Instinto here on Youtube.

just Amazing!!!!!

[tonhaumbr]

this version have video ? i want this video :S :P

[MetalGearKelan]

BEST VERSION EVER

[m318m]

i think that the song speaks about sth (a situation/ a person ) that braught strong feelings but it is over now.. the ''prop'' is sth that is trying to replace this loved thing but as it seems it can't do it..that's why in the final verse says ''another prop..''.it means that he's trying to forget but nothing can fiil the void of the lost loved thing. fire indicates disaster and an ''end''. that's the way i interpret this song..

[cgcgcg69]

wow man this is it (me)

[matias7anriquez]

mike said that this song wasn't a love song

and i perfectly agree with that

[grimlund]

This is magic. So beautiful...

[micha1293]

It's more of a hate song

[oj8b709q]

really?

[remnicolas]

Thanks! I have some more stuff from this show I'm gonna post.

[remnrone]

it's a good thing that they dare to play a song this completly different. (its one of three songs ive heard that R.E.M. actually swings on)

great song dough

[brendanyates]

This was recorded at McCabe's Guitar Shop in Santa Monica Los Angeles summer 1987.

[phillhalen]

what does he mean; 'a simple prop to occupy my time?' does he mean the girl is just nothing to him???

[Fl00xX]

don't rly know ;/

happy new year anyway

[ForceFedA4]

@Fl00xX Yeah he's talking about women he's used in his day.

[votka29]

@Fl00xX

Yes. Micheal thinks this is the cruelest REM song, just because of this. Its kinda a love song, but its actually about not giving a shit about someone you "love", and just using her/him.

[honoluluguitarist]

Yes, that's a fair interpretation. Michael always intended it to be a twisted, violent song, but many listeners misinterpreted it to be a love song.

[parknmart]

It might mean he treated her badly so he's sending her a musical request, thus 'this goes out to the one I love'. But who knows.

[bleedblue83]

@phillhalen Yes, the song is about using women. A lot of ppl think it's a love song when it's actually the opposite

[Dekoekkoekd]

In an interview in the January 1988 issue of Musician magazine [Stipe] said that the song was "incredibly violent" and "It's very clear that it's about using people over and over again".

[XnuGlikas]

@phillhalen i think it refers to another new girl that doesnt mean much to him not the one he is dedicating the song to.if u listen carefully in 1:50-2:17 he sings: this one goes out to the one i've left behind,another prop has occupied my time.so he probably found a girl to spend his time with and the song goes out to his ex love! im not sure but thats how I get it :P :)

[tripatbrain]

@phillhalen

He is lying himself...He tought its gonna be easier for him

[MsKat1972]

@tripatbrain I agree, the intent was the "love interest" to be nothing more than a time killer, but maybe got his feelings involved - kinda a la Counting Crows with Anna Begins

[diamondlotus3]

@phillhalen yes, he left behind the "simple prop to occupy his time"

[AnastasiaGate13]

@phillhalen I have the same question, too..maybe it's a bit ironic. He maybe tells her that he is in love with her, and she must just stop asking him again and again if he loves her..and he tells it ironically. I can't describe it further more..I hope you understood :)

[ppnauman]

It's very simple. The one the singer says he "loves" is the one he has left behind. 'The one I love' is an ironical line. The singer has lied her/him a thousand times that he loves her/him although she/he was no more than 'a simple prop to occupy singer's time'.

[Mr1995filmnerd]

@ppnauman I agree with you, I interpreted the song like that as well, except I don't think he's necessarily talking about just one person (even with the line "the one") but that it's about all the lovers you have during a lifetime and whom you tell you love, even though you don't and they're really just a part of life or a fase if you will (or a prop to occupy your time). If this is a correct interpretation I guess that makes the line even more ironic as he says "the one".

[nomealternativo]

@phillhalen I think he refers to the song itself, as he talk about the song in the first sentence as well "THIS ONE goes to the one I love"

[Allylaprof]

@phillhalen I guess it's meant to be ironic. He pretends he doesn't care but he's singing to her anyway.

[KVespaziani]

@phillhalen "It's probably better that they think it's a love song at this point. That song just came up from somewhere and I recognized it as being really violent and awful. But it wasn't directed at any one person. I would never write a song like that. Even if there was one person in the world thinking, This song is about me, I could never sing it or put it out... I didn't want to record that, I thought it was too much. Too brutal. I think there's enough of that ugliness around." - Stipe

[Enterprise369]

@phillhalen.... Like a "stage prop". Used for one's own purpose so to speak.

[kcg777]

@phillhalen - yes, pretty much. she gives him what he needs till he finds the one he is really looking for... my opinion

[Navouchodonosor]

@phillhalen yes dude

[elaineastolatte]

I think the feeling is burning him like fire, he feels guilty or its passion and desire or both or something like that and he just needs to cure it, kill time to get rid of it or whatever...

[Edsta922]

Yes. Contrary to popular misperception, this is NOT a love song. It's actually a savage critique of the sham that most people mistake for "love"---being with someone simply because you are bored, or lonely, or insecure. Using the other person as a crutch, a drug, and a prop.

[shelbyvision]

@phillhalen - Yes,just someone to dangle on the end of his arm.

[ditadocherty]

@phillhalen I think he is talking about a flirt he had with another girl, a simple prop. This one goes to the one girl he loves instead

[LokiHeart]

pure beauty...

-LokiHeart

[fratter1987]

Love this song,

my mother had tears in her eyes when i played by myself it at Silver Wedding of my parents for them:)

[micha1293]

It's a good song but believe it or not: This song is NOT a love song!!!!!!!!

[oj8b709q]

yea i know its not a love song but whats it about?

[Death69Dealer]

<3 Simply beautiful.

[i love you so much..]

[ciano417]

....so fantastic....

[mecca421]

nice