R.E.M. - Eponymous : It's The End Of The World As We Know It
 

R.E.M.



Eponymous



It's The End Of The World As We Know It





That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and



snakes, an aeroplane and Lenny Bruce is not afraid.



Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn - world



serves its own needs, dummy serve your own needs. Feed



it off an aux speak, grunt, no, strength, Ladder



start to clatter with fear fight down height. Wire



in a fire, representing seven games, a government



for hire and a combat site. Left of west and coming in



a hurry with the furies breathing down your neck. Team



by team reporters baffled, trumped, tethered cropped.



Look at that low playing! Fine, then. Uh oh,



overflow, population, common food, but it'll do. Save



yourself, serve yourself. World serves its own needs,



listen to your heart bleed dummy with the rapture and



the revered and the right, right. You vitriolic,



patriotic, slam, fight, bright light, feeling pretty



psyched.







It's the end of the world as we know it.



It's the end of the world as we know it.



It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.







Six o'clock - TV hour. Don't get caught in foreign



towers. Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself



churn. Locking in, uniforming, book burning, blood



letting. Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate.



Light a candle, light a votive. Step down, step down.



Watch your heel crush, crushed, uh-oh, this means no



fear cavalier. Renegade steer clear! A tournament,



tournament, a tournament of lies. Offer me solutions,



offer me alternatives and I decline.







It's the end of the world as we know it.



It's the end of the world as we know it.



It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.







The other night I dreamt of knives, continental



drift divide. Mountains sit in a line, Leonard



Bernstein. Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester



Bangs. Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom! You



symbiotic, patriotic, slam book neck, right? Right.







It's the end of the world as we know it.



It's the end of the world as we know it.



It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel



fine...fine...







(It's time I had some time alone)