Michael Stipe, the lead singer of R.E.M., wrote this song directed towards teenagers, because their suicide rate is SO high. It is meant as a song of comfort and understanding. In the live versions of this song, you clearly hear him sing "you're not alone." All of their music is best heard live

4:43 his wife in the back seat gets me every time with him saying good bye. Makes me ball every time. I pray to God that me and my husband die around the same time. For anyone here that reads this and is alone, stay strong. God works in mysterious ways. I did not meet my husband until I was 32 and we were born in the same town and in the same hospital just 16 days apart.

One day I hopped into my grandmothers car (she had taken My sister and I out of state while my mom was struggling with life) and I saw this cassette in her car. I asked who’s it was cause I knew someone must have left it in there by mistake. She told me that while at a convention a few weeks prior the motel she was staying in had a piano player and after hearing him play this song she went up and said that is the most beautiful melody is this your own song? He wrote down REM and told her it was just a cover. She then told me that she didn’t think this song could be anymore beautiful that what she had already heard until she heard the lyrics. This song resonates so deeply in me and every time I hear it I’m reminded of her. After she passed away while cleaning out her home I ran across a notebook where she had written down her own struggles of trying to raise my sister and I alone and then it hit me that the beautiful, always smiling, gospel singing granny used this song as a reminder!

The bit where you paused it, it gets me every time that old guy's face and the simple thought 'She's gone', it's like he's returning from a funeral and it finally hits him. You just know this song here has saved someone's life, that refrain at the end 'Hold on!' is a light in the darkest hour.

This song has SAVED so many lives....including mine...in so many dark and hopeless times.💔 It has been used a lot in suicide awareness campaigns - it's heart-breaking, but somehow gives you hope? Such an important song for so many people. I was crying with you 😢crying is a release from pain...like the song says Everybody Hurts & some of us almost take that final step..... Michael Stipe was a good friend of Kurt Cobain, and was devastated when he committed suicide just a year after this single was released. But as we know, for some people, the PAIN is just too much 🖤 R.E.M. will always be remembered for giving people this timeless saviour. Much love to you from Ireland 💚

We’ve told you not to hold back the tears…. If the music moves you to tears, let them flow. If the music moves you to laughter…let it out. It’s shows a true reaction.

Well done for giving this another try !! .I have not heard this for a long time , it really brings back memories . Thank you for another genuine and beautiful reaction !! . That's what we like !! 🙂Wow!! You're owning this now Mia !!. This Is you're own style , and it's working ... 💯 . You are opening my eyes to music I wouldn't normally listen to otherwise , so thank you for that !! . You have a lot of people in your corner now , and your already making waves on this channel 🙂...Soon you will be making waves with the Sharks !! 💯♥️

Been a while, and I'd forgotten how deeply this song connects. Of course, it doesn't hurt that Michael Stipe's voice is such that I could find joy in listening to him sing the alphabet song, acapella.

Beautiful reaction. Some of their other hits: Losing My Religion - Shiny Happy People - Orange Crush 🤙

This song was played on the TV at Diana's funeral

My first time watching you react to a song. Your facial expressions are as real as can be. Thank you for understanding the severity of this song.

You are loved, hold on ❤

Your Beauty shines through your tears!

Please please people don't take your own life. This is a heavy song.

I love experiencing these songs again for the "first time" through you and your honest emotional reactions. And of course the bloopers !! 🙂 You're awesome. ✌️♥️

I was 12 when this song came out and have heard it a million times and I still cry pretty much every time I see this video 💜

They were such a great band. I remember when I first heard them on College alternative radio when I was a student here at the University of kansas. It sounded so new and yet they play those 12-string guitars and so it reminded me of the birds from the late sixties. Which was their signature sound but that first EP sounds way different than their later stuff. But at the time it just sounded so new and different and it kind of let us know that the Athens music scene was really happening. The B-52's came out of there as well. And so when they came through town, I saw them at a small venue here that I was actually playing at a lot because I was in a local band. They tumbled out of their little van with the white trailer behind it, Michael Stipe in his Fringe Brown jacket, and I was there for the sound check, so I help them carry a few things in and I remarked to Michael that it smells like they all needed to take a bath because well you know. But that's life in a van. But then he was hilarious, he exaggerated and he said hey dude, none of us have bathed in 4 weeks! Anyway it was a fantastic show. I love their whole catalog from that first time I ever heard them all the way through. They're just so easy to like to me.

I can handle the song and video, it's been one of my jams forever. I can't handle your tears, girl you broke some cracks in the walls of this old heart.

Too true. Wherever the music moves you. Tears or laughter. Sometimes both.

This will always be around....such a great one, and meaningful to many.

for the first time I cry over the song this is to emotional 💔

Awesome reaction Miaaaa. Many can handle being alone, but not being lonely. This is a great song from R.E.M. Definately a song of hope. 🥳🎉 on reaching 7K subscribers. Onwards and Upwards. Much ❤

Tánks for a beautiful reaction. Beautiful

Mia this is a beautiful song. Thank you so much it brought back so many memories of my youth have not heard this in a long time keep bringing the amazing content and your amazing reactions ❤❤❤

Pain and suffering is a gift to understanding love and joy. Live in the moment for there is no past and no future.

When this song came out everyone was crying! I'll never forget it I was a party. They played this song and it got really quite and some were singing it was really surreal.

If I knew in advance that you were listening to this, I would have told you have a happy happy song after. It's a tear jerker.

Great reaction!

I've always thought, the news reporter, at the end, saying that they can't find anyone might mean that's how many people died, by suicide, in the time it took to sing the song. ?

The Sumaritans in the UK, a helpline use this song as their theme. I cannot think of anything more appropriate , Probably my favourite REM track

The old man thinking shes gone..goodbye broke me😭😭😭

Easily my favorite REM song. We should remember that we are all far more alike than we are different. And yes, we all hurt.

great song - moves me too! you deserve to listen to Losing My Religion another R.E.M. awesome tune! loved reaction!

"Then I can grieve at grievances foregone" is where I break down.

Your reactions are so awesome so lucky I stumbled upon this channel. You gotta new subscriber 🙏love to see the real emotions ❤️

one of the greatest songs ever................

I loved your reaction ❤️❤️❤️😢

Congratulations on 7,000 Subs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I first saw this after a dear friend died by suicide. I sobbed then, and it still makes me tear up. The video meets the song to make sad beauty.

This song saved me.

Yep. It happens. It is a good thing! “Bridge over troubled waters” Simon and Garfunkel . . . Leak Fest 2.0

The way you have done this looks like you with them in the video,brilliant,and you are still beautiful. U.K.

OMG I new if you listen to this song you would have tears. .. great song

It’s not rem, it’s (R.E.M.), rapid eye movement. “What’s the frequency”, “It’s the end of the world as we know it”

I think that song came.out in 92 I think i was 19 an me an 3 of my friends were smoking pot an heard this on MTV an we jus stopped an listen an afterwards we were like uh that song went so deep it jus freaked us out lol Great Reaction to a Great Song🔥🔥🔥😁

Children & teenagers should hear this song now more than ever! So many are overwhelmed with the Social & Economic dilemma that they face! As the Bible says... which is best... to save your body or save your soul? Time is short so getting Born Again ASAP is crucial! Believe & cry out to Lord Jesus Christ before the soon Rapture! Repent & Trust in Him! Maranatha! 🙏🏻💖💞

Great song Great Reaction

This song actually prevented a suicide and probably more.

It's a beautiful Song 🎵. If it doesn't touch you emotionally, you are a Robot not human.

Would you check out a band called MR BIG the song is called TO BE WITH YOU it's a great song. with a great singer I think you'll like it watch original video only

Hi Sweetie, I'm not criticizing you it's a Great reaction, but the group is actually R. E. M. not rem. But that's alright everyone makes the same mistake. R.E.M. stands for rapid eye movement. Thanks Beautiful. 🥴✌️🤔👍😆

Great reaction - makes me emotional and I am 54 guy!

I love watching people discover the great music I grew up with. You would probably like ELO.

I barely cry is it bad that I use this song to let out my hurt? Also you're gorgeous let it out.

There are plenty of songs that will not make you cry.

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Try REM’s “Nightswimming.” Highly recommend the live performance from Jool’s Holland. Absolutely stunning.

New sub. Thanks 😊

Girl you made my eyes water when yours started.

Awesome reaction, can you please react to the avett Brothers.

Try, For King and Country, BURN THE SHIP. I listen to this song once week.

kool song

Y'all might wanna react to believe by Brooks and Dunn and faithfully by journey

You want a powerful music video an song. Whiskey lullaby by Brad Paisley

Try "Nightswimmung"😊

Another beautiful song of hope is "Don't give up" by Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel, you will love it.

Do Queen “back chat”. Live 1982 in Milton Keynes 🔥🔥🔥thanks yo

RIP CHESTER

Notice how there's not a single SUV

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Can u react to home free Unchained Melody... u will love it

React to Collective Soul-The World I Know...

Your Beautiful

Please reacted on everybody hearts by sidhu moose wala with English subtitles

Thx for your lovely reaction. There’s something wrong with the sound in your end. Not sure what. It’s staticky.

You´re funny

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