So It Goes

"This is why the internet sucks. Number one, they never get the lyrics right—not that there were lyrics to begin with—but it says here ‘Note: These lyrics are approximations. Stipe himself has no idea what he says.’ Thank you, search engine!"

Michael Stipe, introducing “Driver 8” during R.E.M.’s appearance at Dublin’s Olympia Theatre. He really was reading his own lyrics from his Macbook during the shows.