Everybody Hurts-R.E.M

One of my all time favs..
Listen:
Song: EVERYBODY HURTS LYRICS
(Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe)

When the day is long and the night, the night is yours alone,
When you're sure you've had enough of this life, well hang on
Don't let yourself go, 'cause everybody cries and everybody hurts sometimes

Sometimes everything is wrong. Now it's time to sing along
When your day is night alone, (hold on, hold on)
If you feel like letting go, (hold on)
When you think you've had too much of this life, well hang on

'Cause everybody hurts. Take comfort in your friends
Everybody hurts. Don't throw your hand. Oh, no. Don't throw your hand
If you feel like you're alone, no, no, no, you are not alone

If you're on your own in this life, the days and nights are long,
When you think you've had too much of this life to hang on

Well, everybody hurts sometimes,
Everybody cries. And everybody hurts sometimes
And everybody hurts sometimes. So, hold on, hold on
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on
Everybody hurts. You are not alone

Writeup from BBC on this:
Boasting Michael Stipe’s most direct, accessible lyric over a simple waltz-like melody courtesy of drummer Bill Berry."Everybody Hurts” became something of an anthem for the disillusioned, disenchanted youth of the mid-Nineties. Released just before the death of Kurt Cobain and the Michael Stipe disappearance of The Manic Street Preachers’ Richey Edwards, the song soon took on a wider significance, with people associating it with the briefly popular ‘cult of despair’. It’s not hard to see why – nor is it surprising that the track was subsequently used in an advert for The Samaritans, and in countless campaigns for charity appeals. Stipe had never before sounded so honest, lyrically, as he for once refused to hide behind allegory and allusion and instead told the truth: we all suffer pain, sometimes, but we all get over it. Stipe himself says he can no longer claim “Everybody Hurts” as his own, as he feels it belongs to the world at large. It’s a nice sentiment, and one which sums up the way many people feel about a song which touches a universal nerve.