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From: Scott A. Yanoff 
SO. CENTRAL RAIN (I'M SORRY) (parts quoted by Michael Stipe in Rolling Stone in
			      a letter in December, 1988)

{ opening riff }
           E(1) : -------------0---1-------
           B(2) : ------------3--3---3-----
           G(3) : ----------2----------2---
           D(4) : -----2-3-0 {let ring out!}
           A(5) : -3-3---------------------


{riff:     E(1) : --------------0---1------
           B(2) : ------------3---3---3----
           G(3) :-----------2-----------2--
           D(4) :-------3-0 {let ring out!}
           A(5) :-----3-------------------
           E(6) :-3-3----------------------
This riff may not be right because I don't have my guitar here
to check it - but it looks right}


C             Em   Gm       F
Did you never call I waited for your call
       C         Gm      F     C
These rivers of suggestion are driving me away
C              Em  Gm          F
The trees will bend the cities wash away
     C          Gm    F      C
The city on the river has a girl without a dream

         Dm2
I'm sorry

{bass solo}   C

{same as first verse}
Eastern to mountain third party call the lines are down
The wise man built his words upon the rocks
But I'm not bound to follow suit
The trees will bend the conversation's dimmed
Will build yourself another home, this choice isn't mine

chorus x 2 ... Am x 2 ..... {bass solo over G   C}

{same as other verses}
Did you never call I waited for your call
These rivers of suggestion are driving me away
The ocean sands the conversation's dimmed
Will build yourself another dream, this choice isn't mine
{end very intensely on Am}