![[Murmur]](murmur.jpg)
"Up the stairs to the landing,
up the stairs into the hall"
According to Stipe, a literal quote
of a neighbor's daily singsong while going upstairs. [Ron Henry]
"Take oasis"
Since this lyric is from the early
80s, this is not a reference to the band Oasis. It probably
means something more like "take a vacation". [Chris Piuma]
"Marat's bathing"
Marat was a French revolutionary
murdered in his bath. [Ron
Henry] * There is a famous painting
depicting Marat stabbed to death in the bath: the "Death
of Marat" by Jaques-Louis David [painted in 1793]. [Joshua Hall-Bachner]
Marat's bathing...