What the heck was REM singing about?

A bunch of gibberish, mostly dummy lyrics evidently.  Still it was fun listening for a lot of years.  Here's a site at a long-defunct poetry webzine that takes a flying guess at what some of the phrases meant, arranged by studio album and song.  (Don't panic, some of the pages are just plain missing.  As I said, long-defunct.)  Mostly pretty obvious stuff (some of it annoyingly obvious) but a few of the more obscure sayings are explained.
It's fall.  I listen to REM a lot in the fall, can't really say why.