In a New York Times interview from 1991 (AKA, the year the song came out), Stipe said it was about "romantic expression," and noted that the phrase "losing my religion" was actually a Southern US expression referring to being at the end of one's rope. Stipe has generally said that the song's narrator is pained by one of those messy unrequited
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