That was the song "Discoverer." Like many R.E.M.songs, this one is poetic with a meaning that is not always clear.

VOA: special.2011.03.18

I could see that the word w-a-t-e-r meant something wonderful and cool that flowed over her hand.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

I put Helen's hand under the cool water and formed the word w-a-t-e-r in her other hand.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

A list of American colleges and universities that offer financial aid to foreign students can be found at edupass.org -- e-d-u-p-a-s-s dot o-r-g.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

Critics also noted an e-mail written more than ten years ago by Professor Jones of the C.R.U.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

A calf is a young cow. A young female cow, especially one that has not yet had a calf, is called a heifer: H-E-I-F-E-R.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

In November, more than one-thousand e-mails and about three thousand documents were taken from the C.R.U.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

Many people hear it and think it is Mary,M-A-R-Y, instead of M-E-R-R-Y.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

It was a short way of writing a different spelling of the words all correct. Some foreign-born people wrote all correct as o-l-l k-o-r-r-e-c-t, and used the letters O.K.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

And this one, I was skiing out in Salt Lake City and the name of a building out there was Reid with R-E-I-D and it sounded good at the time."

VOA: special.2009.07.06

Songs by Loretta Lynn,Willie Nelson, Patti Smith and R.E.M.

VOA: special.2010.07.09

The e-mails included personal insults to dissenters of C.R.U.studies.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

The address is u-s-a-l-e-a-r-n-s dot o-r-g.

VOA: special.2009.01.15

The defeat of the E.R.A.

VOA: special.2009.10.18

W-a-t-e-r,w-a-t-e-r.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

and covering the past 40 years, works by Loretta Lynn, Willie Nelson,Patti Smith, R.E.M.and The Band.

VOA: standard.2010.07.08

"F-E-A-R for Financial reform, Energy woes,Asian tensions and Recessionary concerns.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

That set turned into a benefit for his family, with Big Star's remaining members joined by Mike Mills of R.E.M,M Ward, Amy Speace and others for a trip through the Big Star catalog.

VOA: standard.2010.04.07