Thats Me In The Corner

A plenty of people offline and online often ask me why have I kept the name of my blog ‘Thats Me In The Corner’ and the subtitle as ‘Losing My religion’. The primary reason being that when I was thinking about the name, this song was playing on my computer. Secondly, the lyrics of this song fits exactly in accordance with my principles and thinking in life.

“Losing My Religion” is a song recorded by the rock band R.E.M. from their 1991 album Out of Time. I have faint memories of listening to this song just for its musical pleasure when I was nine. The times when I couldn’t even understand the lyrics of an english song. Then, I think for many years, however, I’ve misunderstood the meaning of this song. Like many people, I took the title at face value and assumed the song was about someone who is coming to terms with losing his faith in his religion. This, obviously, is not the case. The phrase is actually old Southern slang for losing one’s temper or being at the end of one’s rope. The meaning of the song is best put by an anonymous internet user: As it (the old Southern slang) pertains to the song, it’s about an individual obsessed with another and whose feelings about how to approach that other person and how to deal with the whole awkward and rather uncomfortable situation leave the obsessed party to feel as though he is at the end of his rope.

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