R.E.M. - The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite (Lyrics)

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[@stjop2798]

Hauptergebnisse This here is the place where I will be staying There isn't a number, you can call the pay phone Let it ring a long, long, long, long time If I don't pick up, hang up, call back, let it ring some more Oh-oh-oh-oh-ooh-oh If I don't pick up, pick up The sidewinder sleeps, sleeps, sleeps in a coil Call me when you try to wake her up (Call me when you try to wake her) Call me when you try to wake her up (Call me when you try to wake her) Call me when you try to wake her up (Call me when you try to wake her) Oh There are scratches all around the coin slot Like a heartbeat, baby, trying to wake up But this machine can only swallow money You can't lay a patch by computer design It's just a lot of stupid, stupid signs Tell her Tell her she can kiss my ass Then laugh and say that you were only kidding That way she'll know that it's really, really, really, really me, me Call me when you try to wake her up (Call me when you try to wake her) Call me when you try to wake her up (Call me when you try to wake her) Call me when you try to wake her up (Call me when you try to wake her) Oh Baby, instant soup doesn't really grab me Today I need something more sub-sub-sub-substantial A can of beans or blackeyed peas Some Nescafe and ice A candy bar, a falling star, or a reading from Doctor Seuss Call me when you try to wake her up (Call me when you try to wake her) Call me when you try to wake her up (Call me when you try to wake her) Call me when you try to wake her up (Call me when you try to wake her) Oh The cat in the hat came back Wrecked a lot of havoc on the way Always had a smile and a reason to pretend But their world has flat backgrounds And little need to sleep but to dream The sidewinder sleeps on his back Call me when you try to wake her up (Call me when you try to wake her) Call me when you try to wake her up (Call me when you try to wake her) I can always sleep standing up (Call me when you try to wake her) Oh Call me when you try to wake her up (Call me when you try to wake her) Call me when you try to wake her up (Call me when you try to wake her) I can always sleep standing up (Call me when you try to wake her) Oh Call me when you try to wake her up (Call me when you try to wake her) I can always sleep standing up (Call me when you try to wake her) I can always sleep standing up (Call me when you try to wake her) We've got to moogie, moogie, move on this one 😊

[@luciadelia2105]

I love this song whatever the fuck it means!!!!!!!!

[@carleysharlotte1139]

Calling Jamaica!!!! 🇯🇲 ❤

[@KM-ws8qs]

-Come nee shy wayga- After years of knowing full well it couldn't possibly be "come nee shy wayga" , it bothered me so much, that at 3:18 am, July 4, 2022, I wound up right here. Thank you You Tube. I can now sleep.

[@valentinfedulov1486]

Real Lyrics: Call Me When You Try To Wake Her Up Misheard Lyrics: Calling Jamaica

[@yannmondehard4171]

Cornichon raper

[@chrisretro9380]

Who else came here looking for the chorus words?, I’m from the UK and still haven’t a clue what they were!!

[@emjay9280]

What he sings is several syllables short of what is written.

[@SebastianLass]

I think, Michael sings "Calling try wake her up", but for sure not "Call me when you try to wake her up".

[@CockneyRebel1979]

I now know what the right lyrics are, but to me, it still sounds like he's singing "Call me Cheryl Baker".

[@chrisretro9380]

@@CockneyRebel1979 that’s exactly what I thought!!

[@diego2988]

@@chrisretro9380 Imagine for a Spanish person...sounds like "conli churreca"

[@romeumartins5870]

AMAZING SONG!!! ONE OF THE BEST FROM REM GREATINGS FROM PORTUGAL 🇵🇹🙏💙🤍💪

[@therealautisticdj]

So true. It is a good song. Glad you like the lyrical video.

[@keithjones6602]

Unbelievable lyrics Michael Stipes voice, Mick, Peter, and Bill, Wished I had have gone to see these cool fucks live, What a big regret.

[@jreissilva]

Tens toda a razão!

[@NorfolkMancave]

I been singing this totally wrong for 25 years. Lol

[@Anthony_Stockton09]

How did you sing it?😂

[@flabbybum9562]

My name's Tony, and for ages I thought the chorus was saying 'Tony- Tie- Breaker'. I sang it with those words like it was my personal anthem or something. I thought I was being cool, but people must have thought I was an idiot. Now the odd looks make sense!

[@Themanwhocameback2]

No. Because nobody has ever known what Michael was singing in that catchy chorus. I always thought it was just nonsense syllables. If those are the words, he is saying he intentionally sang them garbled.

[@garypeterson9296]

😂

[@Porch.monkey.slayer]

We have all been there… my mother actually used to think Message in a bottle by the Poli e was Lettuce in the bathroom so… 🤔 as for Sham69 Hurry up Harry.. hurry up hairy camel…😂😂😂😂

[@lynby6231]

So your name’s not really flabby bum?

[@MichaelSmith-xb5cp]

I always thought this one was about an absentee father pining to speak with his infant daughter. "Quiet Jungle" intro, candy and nursery rhyme reference, sleep standing up just hear the voice of what you love the most, pondering on the silly things they might do together. However the military jargon code could also make sense, REM always striked me as an act that doesn't want you to really know.

[@DucksDeLucks]

Good job. This song really needs a lyrical video!

[@therealautisticdj]

Thanks. I am updating some old lyrical videos that like from 10 years ago. If you have any suggestions for lyrical videos let me know.

[@CyndisKristt]

For the longest time I thought he was singing, "Call me in Jamaica." Love the way he rushes the words together.

[@Galexsy-b2z]

I thought the same hahahahs

[@CesarDias-vv3rc]

Im not an English person, but f well buddy not sound like Jamaica 🤣

[@vasco77l97]

Call me tcharewekaha 😂

[@andrewdarby8827]

So it's not " calling Jamaica " 😂

[@therealautisticdj]

No... to be honest I didn't grew up listening to this song as a kid. But some R.E.M. songs sure do sound different before reading the lyrics 🙈

[@Bruce1983]

i thought that too

[@DelaineandKenna]

I thought that tooooo!!!!

[@CockneyRebel1979]

Nah, and it ain't "Call me Cheryl Baker" either. I'm gutted! My bloody life's ruined! 😂😂😂😂

[@the_once-and-future_king.]

I thought it was 'Only in Jamaica'. My life is mess of lies.

[@davetherave597]

The sidewinder is a military air to air missile,saying the sidewinder sleeps in a coils means there's no war ATM and wake me up when there is

[@ralphneelands3990]

I believe the typical old telephone-booth phone with the really long coil is nicknamed a sidewinder.

[@rainbowcrystaluk]

It’s also a North American desert snake apparently. ‘a pale-coloured, nocturnal, burrowing rattlesnake that moves sideways over sand by throwing its body into S-shaped curves. It is found in the deserts of North America.’

[@borcemiovski]

it is a damn snake

[@ΙωαννηςΚοκκινος]

I ❤ sweet Band R. E. M Peace for all of you......john greece

[@sutash9043]

Woow, so that's what they were saying... almost 30 years later I discover what the hell they were saying, 'cos I dind't understand shit of the chorus. I'd just started learning English a couple of years before, with a neighbourhood teacher (I was 13 when this song was realeased) and all my mind was hearing was "callyou chabeeekaaaa, callyou chabeeeekaaaa" and I would think "Ok, it's just that I haven't learnt that yet, eventually I'll learn that structure and I'll be able to understand"LOL I was so innocent! Fast forward 30 years, me thinking, Ok, I'm an EFL teacher now, I'm supposed to understand, let's see. Well, I still had to read the lyrics to see what on earth were the actual words! On a side note, no wonder English is so hard to understand when you're not aware that what word by word should sound as eight distinct syllables, may actually end up sounding as four.

[@JSRugh]

People have the same complaint about learning Hebrew!

[@Fauniq]

As a native English speaker, we also don't understand the chorus.

[@lynby6231]

Ha there used to be a UK program on TV called “It’ll be alright on the night” and they showed an Italian cookery program were the chef was showing viewers ‘ Worcestershire sauce’ watching him trying to pronounce it was hilarious 😂 it took him ages to say it and it was miles wrong, if you’ve been speaking English for 30years then you probably know that we pronounce it “wuster sheh sauce” 😂

[@jonathanlfccortis5006]

You’d be exactly brave it take this song on in a pub full of people on Karaoke Night!!😂 Only the genius that is Michael Stipe could sing this challenging song!❤️

[@andybrown9006]

YES!! Now i know what he's singing in the chorus, could never decipher it !!

[@ludotau9077]

If someone is wandering why he laugh at a certain point, is because he couldn't spell out Seuss correctly so he saying Zeus

[@HSimon1981]

October 5 2022 will mark the 30th anniversary of the release of the album Automatic for the People

[@Anthony_Stockton09]

@@eremiasranwolf3513?

[@franciscoprazzio225prazzio]

Call me in Jamaica Call me in Jamaica Call me in Jamaica Call me in Jamaica Call me in Jamaica Call me in Jamaica

[@loris4142]

Pure poetry.

[@champchampdoodlebug7369]

0:54 I Hear “COMING IN GEL MAKER!”

[@lyricsita9643]

Rock on!! 🤘🏼❤️

[@carolinewiggins2803]

I've been hearing: "Call me in Tribecula" thinking it was a place (getting it mixed up with Tribeca)

[@FreedumbFighter29]

i always heard " come in and try to wake her up"

[@Ssjdragon]

i hear come and meet your maker 😅

[@SaintPhoenixx]

Devastated to learn this song isn't an ode to Michael Stipes favourite past-time, calling Troy Baker, the famous voice actor.

[@fabiomonaco1686]

Amazing

[@coinsandotherthings4836]

always thought he was saying "call me in jamaica"

[@Anonymous-kq8oh]

I always thought it was Tony’s a wanker 😂

[@christophertaylor2784]

Hahaha 🤣🤣🤣

[@Anthony_Stockton09]

😂😭🤣

[@Anthony_Stockton09]

Really?😂

[@scottcurtis7574]

I was convinced me was singing calling Sheryl Baker, until today

[@Mk-oy9ns]

I drove all over Europe in the 90's singing come in channel breaker........CB radio aerial was a sidewinder,lol.

[@Cowbladd]

It always sounded to me like "only cheddar bacon."

[@mrnewton86]

I always thought the chorus was Coming ta Wickenham 😂

[@jamesb2497]

Always thought it was something about going to Jamaica

[@user-ts9sc2nl9c]

I've been singing calling Jamaica since a kid😂

[@clarelynch2108]

🤣🤣🤣 I am pissing myself at comments we all came for same reason we made our own lyrics for years, mines was co.e to Jamaica man 👍😁

[@borcemiovski]

calling to wake her up damn it

[@Erisen.]

2:33 What's that laughter? :-)

[@therealautisticdj]

When trying to name-check Dr. Seuss, Stipe kept saying "Zeus" and laughs at his own inability to pronounce that correctly, which Mike Mills kept trying to get him to do. Source: Wikipedia en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sidewinder_Sleeps_Tonite#:~:text=When%20trying%20to%20name%2Dcheck,to%20get%20him%20to%20do.

[@GoodMrDawes]

Awesomeness

[@robfinlay8058]

He sings "Call me try wake her" in the chorus, the other words simply aren't there.

[@chrissorrera7616]

Colin Char Way Car Ah!

[@billyrichardson4175]

I thought it said coninchawicka 😂

[@sirbenjaminthebold3943]

‘I can always sleep standing up’ Weird flex but ok

[@therealautisticdj]

😅

[@tonyhenry3211]

Just realised that was even in the song 🎵😄

[@therealautisticdj]

@@tonyhenry3211 Oof

[@glengraham7080]

I always thought it refers to sleeping in the call box.

[@RicheyHindley]

@@glengraham7080phone box*

[@kevinobrien8530]

Tony shall wake her up 😂😂

[@binghamguevara6814]

The chorus is Cheryl Baker’s ringtone. No lie.

[@philpayton8965]

"Come and eat your bacon"

[@ciaranmilligan1021]

Connor try to her wake up 😂😂😂

[@carloscea]

Coming in to wake her up.

[@TheRetroManRandySavage]

All i hear is, comly chai waker.😂

[@Ssjdragon]

this might sound stupid but when he says "call me when you try to wake her up" i hear come and meet your maker 😅

[@petermatthews3125]

I've had this as an earworm for the last week! "Comalin Chowmania!" "Comalin Chowmania!"

[@thebadbackbackpacker]

I've slept in a phonebox 😅

[@therealautisticdj]

Wait, really? I bet that must've been uncomfortable?

[@cheeky-minx87]

Sounds More Like Tommy Shall Wake Her Up XD

[@shaunsanders588]

I still don't understand wot he says ? Calling chad wake her 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@pup1008]

@@shaunsanders588 "Call me when you try to wake her up"

[@Anonymous-kq8oh]

I thought he said Tony is a wanker lol 😂

[@stokiecarper6966]

I thought it was calling Charlie baker

[@linejattu1734]

So..... I've always what a "Corny telebreaker" is? I guess not.. :D

[@Jayjamie]

"Only Jamaican"

[@ralphneelands3990]

I think the cat in the hat always had a reason to ‘CONTEND’, not ‘pretend’. In other words, he argued or opposed the wishes of the kids.

[@jefsiv]

Call Anita Baker.

[@giulionugnes9730]

I am Italian , for me is "Call me Chewbacca"...

[@meesamagill1193]

Thought it was 'sleeps in a car'

[@TheMiseryIndex]

Calling Tom Baker

[@TonyBurke-qw1sv]

Tony Jamaica

[@andrewevans6854]

Will stand ..not stay ...going in ...oops

[@josephinebennington7247]

So the chorus is not “call me from Jamaica”. At last I know.

[@melissasbonetti7096]

TRADUZIONE IN ITALIANO ❤........ PLEASE??? 😅🎉❤

[@CaptainHurricane]

I can't think of another artist who writes such catchy songs, great melodies and great vocals, but with absolutely bollocks lyrics. Does Michael Stipe just open his mouth and let the wind blow his tongue around ?

[@khunnth6071]

Hahahahaha he's an expert at seemingly nonsense lyrics 🤣 a lot of the time they are....baffling. but check out some other songs around this time and its obvious he had a clear meaning. Just not all the time 🤩

[@Samsalgli]

Lyrical genius.

[@gintymcg4972]

You just don’t understand them..

[@karenwebster2465]

IF people really thought what this song is about: "Call me when you TRY to wake her up"....plus The sidewinder sleeps tonight. We have the sleeping masses now. Humanity is waking up. The Sidewinder is the coil of the old telephone. (Sidewinder sleeps in a coil). Kundalini energy is referred to as the serpents' coil that sleeps at the base of the root chakra. Travels up to the pineal gland during a spiritual awakening. Last verse: He's sick of the mundane and uninspired, looking for more to feed his soul-- Very much what is happening over the planet now. Do your research if you are still SLEEPING. I KNEW this song when younger. Never made sense because I was only just starting to 'wake up'. Last phrase: We've got to boogie, boogie move" on this one. Seriously. The entertainers know EXACTLY what the plan for humanity was back then. They drop hints, to try to awaken as they call us 'the profane'. LOVE this song! His writing is genius. Very cleverly disguised what he is really talking about.

[@karenwebster2465]

You've got to awaken, to actually inner stand this song.

[@modadomdom3073]

It's not call me Jamaica its call me when you try to wake her

[@johntebbuttrealtor]

Can you provide lyrics though ?

[@andrewevans6854]

Wrong lyrics ...ooops