Listening: R.E.M. - Leaving New York

Listening: R.E.M - Leaving New York 

Result clauses:

1. You might have laughed if I told you;
2. You might have hidden a frown;
3. You might have succeeded in changing me;
4. I might have been turned around.    

I think that the singer in this song expresses her disappointment and sadness in leaving his New York and especially the woman of his life. In reference to this case is emblematic the final sentence of the song:

"Leaving New York never easy (it's pulling me apart)
I saw the life fading out (change)"