R.E.M. - Why Not Smile video free download


49,517
Duration: 04:03
Uploaded: 2010/04/06

© 1998 Warner Bros.

Album: Up

The concrete broke your fall

To hear you speak of it

I'd have done anything

I would do anything

I feel like a cartoon brick wall

To hear you speak of it

You've been so sad

It makes me worry

Why not smile?

You've been sad for a while

Why not smile?

I would do anything

To hear you speak of it

Why not smile?

You've been sad for a while

You've been sad for a while

Comments

9 years ago

mirus

Best song ever

9 years ago

TheTerminalExpress

The distorted guitar parts near the end are really good

9 years ago

Lime Cultivist

You've been sad for a while...

9 years ago

Ian Raiker

Another Great Tune R.E.M!!!

9 years ago

Kaviena Waltz

I love this. 12 and holding brought me here!

9 years ago

clyde sterling

When I met Mike Mills I told him Up was a masterpiece/ Sadly folks he did not agree. Not that he was offended or anything. He shook his head, grinned, and said, "it is a good album but not a masterpiece". "Thank you though". 

10 years ago

lukida

TWELVE AND HOLDING

10 years ago

Casimiro A. Nigro

This song is about a friend's or relative or parent's suicide. "The concrete broke [his] fall". Mike did not cope with this person's depression: Mike "[had] done anything", "would do anything", actually "would have done anything" in order "to hear [him] speak a verse". He had been "sad for a while". So, Mike is inviting him to cheer up, to approach life another way. That's why he's saying "Why not smile?!" (instead of getting prey to depression and committing suicide, eventually).Great song. Yet so sad.

10 years ago

Casimiro A. Nigro

This song is about a friend's or relative or parent's suicide. "The concrete broke [his] fall". Mike did not cope with this person's depression: Mike "[had] done anything", "would do anything", actually "would have done anything" in order "to hear [him] speak a verse". He had been "sad for a while". So, Mike is inviting him to cheer up, to approach life another way. That's why he's saying "Why not smile?!" (instead of getting prey to depression and committing suicide, eventually).Great song. Yet so sad.

10 years ago

cosmicdrifter287

underrated song,underrated album.

10 years ago

Axelder Bunte

love and hate my ex ....Abit......why not sracastic smile ;)

10 years ago

Paul Woodley

Why not?#smile #nowplaying #music #REM 

10 years ago

A Bleach

I love REM! I always remember my mom playing them in the car when I was little :) I still listen to them to this day, she does too.

11 years ago

Andy Bechtel

Great song from an under-appreciated album.

11 years ago

TheEliteM0NK3Y

Only one band can make my tear ducts open like flood gates.

11 years ago

Nauj Rivera Párraga

YES! SO MANY THANKS 'Bros'. Nauj, from La Paz, Bolivien, Heart of SouthAmerican

12 years ago

cosmicrider287

thank you so much for uploading the studio version. it`s ehm way up there as one of my all time fav r.e.m.songs.

Related Videos