Rapid Enlightenment Movement

Life is bigger
It's bigger than you
And you are not me
The lengths that I will go to
The distance in your eyes
Oh no I've said too much
I set it up

That's me in the corner
That's me in the spotlight
Losing my religion
Trying to keep up with you
And I don't know if I can do it
Oh no I've said too much
I haven't said enough
I thought that I heard you laughing
I thought that I heard you sing
I think I thought I saw you try

Every whisper
Of every waking hour I'm
Choosing my confessions
Trying to keep an eye on you
Like a hurt lost and blinded fool
Oh no I've said too much
I set it up

Consider this
The hint of the century
Consider this
The slip that brought me
To my knees failed
What if all these fantasies
Come flailing around
Now I've said too much
I thought that I heard you laughing
I thought that I heard you sing
I think I thought I saw you try

But that was just a dream
That was just a dream

So to begin with the first stanza I notice the broken syllogism, and comparison

between the narrator and the "other subject." Knowing this is REM's "Losing my Religion.”

I feel the narrator is saying that the restrictions which apply to the "other subject"

don't apply to him.

Next he begins with saying he's on outcast; yet he's also the one in the spotlight

He's trying to keep up-maybe like sympathize with theologians.

He says he's said to much, perhaps he insulted someone,

and then he hadn't said enough, like he wants to spread the truth.

I'm not really sure what to make out of the

"I think I thought I saw you try."

In the third stanza I think he's making a comment

on how the hurt lost is better than the blinded fool.

The hint of the century, the slip (faith) that brought him to his knees

,and all these fantasies are things that are reasons not

to "buy in to religion."

But all in all, the hope of ridding the world of its religious shackles

Is "just a dream"