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Hairshirt

R.E.M.

Green

1988

And the waves of conversation are enough
To knock you down in the undertow
So alone
So all alone in my life
Feed me banks of light
And hang your hairshirt

HAIRSHIRT

It's all the same
It's all your fault
Prepare yourself
For the assault

When you lay down
Don't close your eyes
Cuz all your sins
gonna

time

i want security 
i want chaos 
i want purity 
i want the dirt and the earth want the skirt and the sharp hairshirt 
anything to divert 

i'm comin

I'm all alone, the mood is right
My head is clear, my hairshirt's tight
For love, I got to strut and grovel
I'm locked within the heartland here
My

Collecting You

Indigo Girls

Become You

2002

and hairshirt sting
My hair-trigger love and faulty spring
Motivation smokes a name
I don't like that smile applied to me
So blindly just the same
Call me

Beautiful Joe had a bad dream
Harry Hairshirt was screaming
Down on his knees in the beautiful dirt
cats and dogs were converted
In the alley by

Montague Smyth and that Stacey girl
Danced with Lorna and Hairshirt til Minnesota rolled in

That's right!

This is the truth everybody
And we all play along

that is so loud
Permeates the room
It's almost over
Hair-shirt
Hits you where it hurts
Oh how can this be worse
Just stick around and see
It's almost

Looks like a covering
Just a hair-shirt that I have to wear
It fits me pretty well
From the feel I can surely tell
That it's something meant for me
It's

wise old men wearing goat hairshirts
Oracles in the rectory

Archaic institution, chains of God and law torn away from our hearts
By the sexual

Special, you claimed, inspired my hair-shirt
Conclusion drawn from an askew view of the Past
Found evidence to the contrary, opening my eyes, at last
Claimed

We, the starving volunteers the ones who
Go without the shoeless, hair-shirts, bonded
Veiled seekers of the drought now stand
Before your floral gate

holding on to 
An old hairshirt you thought you couldn’t shed

Now’s the time that you always knew 
Would come circling round and fly back to you 
As you