Released on R.E.M.‘s fifth album Document in 1987, “The One I Love” may have sounded like a serenade, but its lyrics revealed something more heartless. Written by Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Bill Berry, “The One I Love” was often interpreted by some as a love ballad, but its lyrics stung of using […]
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