He has this one where he’s being pursued, by every woman he ever knew/But at first grasp he wakes and gasps
“Three relationships…drinking and then not drinking,” so the virgin solo LP back story goes. Post a cappella curtain-call, “Dream Song” hits the songwriter’s pillow hard, a haunting Elliott Smith-esque brood of a waltz, with a smirk in its cheek as it spirals into REM’s most fearful tunnels.
