To roughly paraphrase Forest Gump, Chronic Town is like a small box of chocolates, and there's not a bad one in the box. "1,000,000" (pronounced "a million") is sheer fun poppy punk with a slightly macabre lyric about death - or at least cheating death. And not only is the guy in the song outliving you by about 999,915 years, but he's smarter too.
I know this is cheating, but I looked at a REM fan site message board to see what the kids were saying about this song. My favorite comment was:
I wanted this to be about aliens…so much.
Smarter too.
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