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REM EveryBody Hurts

This is a tribute to one of my all time favorite band REM, the band officially seperated just a couple of days back after almost 3 decades, so this is just to say a little Thank You from my side. Thank you guys, you made some brilliant music.

Alright, so Everybody Hurts is my most loved REM song, the song was released on the 1992 album Automatic for the People and was also released as a single in 1993. Everybody Hurts peaked at #29 on the Billboard Hot 100, #7 on the UK Singles Charts and #3 on the French Singles Chart. The song has an interesting factoid, it was written by drummer Bill Berry. The string arrangement was written by Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones.

The song is about letting all your worries go, coz Everybdy hurts. I just simply love the video of this song, it's one of the best videos ever made.  In the video it is shown that the band is stuck in a bad traffic jam. It shows the people in other cars and subtitles of their thoughts appear on screen, thoughts about stressful events that drapre their everyday lives. Then towards the end, its like they forget everything and all the people get out of their cars and walk through the traffic. It shows that in life there will always be problems, but in the end everythings ok.

The song is covered by many artists, one of my favourite cover is from The Corrs. The guitar chords of this song are pretty simple but you need to know the tempo of the song quite well to play it, play it really slow with the song a couple of times and you will figure it out.

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REM - Everybody Hurts Guitar Chords, Lyrics, Tabs, Song Meaning & Facts

D     G      D       G

D		    G             D            		    G
When your day is long,  and the night, the night is yours alone
D			     G              D         G    G   G/F#
And you're sure you've had enough of this life,  hang on
Em		    A   Em                A
Don't let yourself go, 'cause everybody cries
Em          A           D       G       D     G
Everybody Hurts, sometimes

			   D  G       			D
Sometimes everything is wrong. Now its time to sing along
			  G         D        			 G         D
When your day is night alone (hold on), if you feel like letting go (hold on)
			  G              D              G   G/F#
If you think you've had enough of this life, well hang on

Em    		  A    Em 			A
Cause everybody hurts, take comfort in your friends
Em            A
Everybody hurts ....

F#		   Bm       F#      Bm
Don't throw your hand, no no ..... no
F#		   Bm
Don't throw your ha-a-a-and
C			G    C      C/B             Am
You feel like you're alone,  No, no ... you're not alone

D		     G          D                            G	
If you're on your own in this life, the days and nights are long
D				  G            D         G   G/F#
And if you think you've had too much of this life,  hang on

Em		 A           Em               A
Well everybody hurts - sometimes, everybody cries
Em           A    (stop)                             D     G
Everybody hurts ............................... sometimes
            D           G            D        G         D        G
Everybody hurts,  sometimes, so hold on, hold on,  hold on, hold on
     D        G        D        G
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on
          D                  G          D            G
Everybody hu-u-u-urts .........