REM Concert 1995 Lyrics

@SONG: WHAT'S THE FREQUENCY KENNETH?

"What's the frequency, Kenneth?" is your Benzedrine, uh-huh
I was brain-dead, locked out, numb, not up to speed
I thought I'd pegged you an idiot's dream
Tunnel vision from the outsider's screen
I never understood the frequency, uh-huh
You wore our expectations like an armored suit, uh-huh

I'd studied your cartoons, radio, music, tv, movies, magazines
Richard said, "Withdrawal in disgust is not the same as apathy"
A smile like the cartoon, tooth for a tooth
You said that irony was the shackles of youth
You wore a shirt of violent green, uh-huh
I never understood the frequency, uh-huh

"What's the frequency, Kenneth?" is your Benzedrine, uh-huh
Butterfly decal, rearview mirror, dogging the scene
You smile like the cartoon, tooth for a tooth
You said that irony was the shackles of youth
You wore a shirt of violent green, uh-huh
I never understood the frequency, uh-huh
You wore our expectations like an armored suit, uh-huh
I couldn't understand
You said that irony was the shackles of youth, uh-huh
I couldn't understand
You wore a shirt of violent green, uh-huh
I couldn't understand
I never understood, don't fuck with me, uh-huh

  
@SONG: CRUSH WITH EYELINER

I know you
I know you've seen her
She's a sad tomato
She's three miles of bad road
Walking down the street
Will I never meet her?
She's a real woman-child
Oh my kiss breath turpentine

I am smitten
I'm the real thing (I'm the real thing)
Have you seen her come around?
My crush with eyeliner

I'm imbibed
I'm infatuated
It's all too much passion
She's all that I can take
What position should I wear?
Cop an attitude? (Fake her)
How can I convince her? (Fake her)
That I'm invented too, yeah

I am smitten
I'm the real thing (I'm the real thing)
We all invent ourselves
and you know me

Yeah, she's a sad tomato
She's three miles of bad road
She's her own invention (She's her own invention)
That gets me in the throat
What can I make myself be?
Life is strange, yeah (Life is strange)
What can I make myself be (Fake her)
To make her mine?

I am smitten
I'll do anything (I'll do anything)
A kiss breath turpentine,
my crush with eyeliner

I am smitten
You know me (Yeah, you know me)
I could be your Frankenstein
my crush with eyeliner

I am smitten
I'm the real thing (I'm the real thing)
Won't you be my valentine?
My crush with eyeliner


@SONG: DRIVE
	This version is from the lyric sheet distributed to participants in
	the "Drive" video, the only difference from the songbook lyrics being
	the use here of the title in the song (vs. "tried").

Smack, crack, bushwhacked.
Tie another one to the racks, baby.

Hey kids, rock and roll.
Nobody tells you where to go, baby.

What if I ride?  What if you walk?
What if you rock around the clock?
Tick-tock.  Tick-tock.
What if you did?  What if you walk?
What if you tried to get off, baby?

Hey, kids, where are you?
Nobody tells you what to do, baby.

Hey kids, shake a leg.
Maybe you're crazy in the head, baby.

Maybe you did.  Maybe you walked.
Maybe you rocked around the clock.
Tick-tock.  Tick-tock.
Maybe I ride.  Maybe you walk.
Maybe I drive to get off, baby.

Hey kids, shake a leg.
Maybe you're crazy in the head, baby.

Ollie, ollie.
Ollie ollie ollie.
Ollie ollie in come free, baby.

Hey, kids, where are you?
Nobody tells you what to do, baby.

Smack, crack.  Shack-a-lack.
Tie another one to your back, baby.

Hey kids, rock and roll.
Nobody tells you where to go, baby.

Maybe you did.  Maybe you walk.
Maybe you rock around the clock
Tick-tock.  Tick-tock.
Maybe I ride.  Maybe you walk.
Maybe I drive to get off, baby.

Hey kids, where are you?
Nobody tells you what to do, baby.

Hey kids, rock and roll.
Nobody tells you where to go, baby, baby, baby.


@SONG: TURN YOU INSIDE-OUT
 
Divide your cultured pearls in haste
I'm looking for to lay to waste
Of all the things I cannot taste
and this not the racy race
They spoke loud
 
I believe in what you do
I believe in watching you
It's what you do
 
I could turn you inside-out
What I choose not to do
I could turn you inside-out
What I choose not to do
 
Given the choice
Given the heart
Given the tool
Given the word
Given the cheers
 
I believe in what you do
I believe in watching you
It's what you do
 
I could turn you inside-out
What I choose not to do
I could turn you inside-out
What I choose not to do


@SONG: TRY NOT TO BREATHE

I will try not to breathe.
I can hold my head still with my hands at my knees.
These eyes are the eyes of the old, shiver and fold.

I will try not to breathe.
This decision is mine.  I have lived a full life
and these are the eyes that I want you to remember.  Oh.

I need something to fly over my grave again.
I need something to breathe.

I will try not to burden you.
I can hold these inside.  I will hold my breath
until all these shivers subside,
just look in my eyes.

I will try not to worry you.
I have seen things that you will never see.
Leave it to memory me.  I shudder to breathe.

I want you to remember.  Oh.       (you will never see)
I need something to fly            (something to fly)
over my grave again.               (you will never see)
I need something to breathe.       (something to breathe)
Baby, don't shiver now.
Why do you shiver now?             (I will see things you will never see)
I need something to fly            (something to fly)
over my grave again.               (I will see things you will never see)
I need something to breathe.  Oh. Oh. Oh.

I will try not to worry you.
I have seen things that you will never see.
Leave it to memory me.  Don't dare me to breathe.

I want you to remember.  Oh.       (you will never see)
I need something to fly            (something to fly)
over my grave again.               (you will never see)
I need something to breathe.       (something to breathe)
Baby, don't shiver now.
Why do you shiver now?             (I will see things you will never see)
I need something to breathe.       (something to breathe - I have seen things
                                    you will never see)
I want you to remember.


@SONG: I TOOK YOUR NAME

I wore the clothes you wanted
I took your name
If there is some confusion,
who's to blame?

I signed your living will
I smiled your face
I'm ready to close the book on
NASA and outer space

If there is some confusion
who's to blame?
who's to blame?

I sequenced your arrival
I sealed your fate
I pushed the button
and erased your master tape

I wrote the sales pitch
I threw the grey switch
I dragged your big-assed
dirty robbed car out of that ditch

If there is some confusion
who's to blame?
who's to blame?

I crossed your great divide
I stirred your ocean's tide
I called your bluff until
I blew your circuits wide

I'll be your albatross,
devil dog, Jesus Lord
I don't wanna be Iggy Pop
but if that's what it takes

If there is some confusion
If there is some confusion
If there is some confusion
who's to blame?
who's to blame?


@SONG: UNDERTOW

I know what I wanted
I know what I wanted
I know how I wanted this to be

Go down to the water
Jump down on the water
Walk above the water, leaving me (?)

This is not my dream, brother
It is cold in heaven
I'm not tired of waiting (?)

I'm drowning
          Breathing ourselves
Me
          Breathing ourselves
I'm drowning
          Breathing ourselves
Me, yeah

She has blood and I have blood (?)
They don't need a heaven
They don't need religion, they can see

Go down to the water
Jump down on the water
Fly above the water, leaving me (?)

This is not my dream, sister
It is cold in heaven
And no one's coming after me

I'm drowning
          Breathing ourselves
Me
          Breathing ourselves
I'm drowning
          Breathing ourselves
Me, yeah

You know why I'm tired
Cold, alone and tired
Nothing's going to save me, oh I can see

I can't say I'm fearful
I can't say I'm not afraid
I am not resisting, I can see

I don't need a heaven
I don't need religion
I am in the place where I should be

I am breathing water
I am breathing water
And everybody's got to breathe

I'm drowning
          Breathing ourselves
Me
          Breathing ourselves
I'm drowning
          Breathing ourselves
Me, yeah

I'm drowning
          Breathing ourselves
Me
          Breathing ourselves
I'm drowning
          Breathing ourselves
Me, yeah


@SONG: BANG AND BLAME

If you could see yourself now baby
It's not my fault
You used to be so in control
You're going to roll right over this one
Just roll me over, let me go
You're laying blame
Take this as no, no, no

You bang, bang, bang, bang and bang,
blame, blame, blame
You bang, bang, bang, bang and bang,
It's not my thing so let it go.

If you could see yourself now baby,
the tables are turned
the whole world hinges on your swings
your secret life of indiscreet discretions
I turn the screw, leave the screen,
Don't point your finger,
You know that's not my thing

You came to bang, bang, bang, bang and bang,
blame, blame, blame
You bang, bang, bang, bang and bang,
It's not my thing so let it go.

You've got a little worry,
I know it all too well,
I've got your number,
so does every kiss-and-tell
who dares to cross your threshold,
happens on your way,
Stop laying blame.
You know that's not my thing.

You know that's not my thing,
You came to bang, bang, bang, bang and bang,
blame, blame, blame
You bang, bang, bang, bang and bang,
It's not my thing so let it go.
You bang, bang, bang, bang and bang,
blame, blame, blame
You bang, bang, bang, bang and bang,
It's not my thing so let it go.

You kiss on me, tug on me, rub on me, jump on me,
you bang on me, beat on me, hit on me, let go on me,
You let go on me.


@SONG: I DON'T SLEEP, I DREAM

I'm looking for an interruption,
do you believe?
You looking, did my dreams
Be prepared for anything
You come into my little scene
Hooray hooray hip hip hooray
There's one thing I can guarantee:
You won't have to dig, dig too deep

Said leave me to lay, but touch me deep,
I don't sleep, I dream
I'll settle for a cup of coffee, but you know what I really need

Are you looking to drive my dreams?
You here to run my screens?
You come, deliver my demons
Hooray hooray hip hip hooray
Are you coming to ease my headache?
Do you give good head?
Am I good in bed?

I don't know, I guess so
I don't sleep, I dream
I'll settle for a cup of coffee, but you know what I really need

I'm looking for an interruption,
can you believe?
Some medicine for my headache
Hooray hooray hip hip hooray
I'm pitching for a new direction
Pinch me when I wake
Don't tell me my dreams are fake
you leave me to lay, you touch me deep,
I don't sleep, I dream
I'll settle for a cup of coffee, but you know what I really need
Leave me to lay, but touch me deep,
I don't sleep, I dream
I'll settle for a cup of coffee, but you know what I really need


@SONG: STRANGE CURRENCIES

I don't know why you're mean to me
when I call on the telephone
and I don't know what you mean to me
but I want to turn you on, turn you up, figure you out, want to take you on

These words, "You will be mine"
These words, "You will be mine, all the time"

The Fool might be my middle name
But I'd be foolish not to say
Going to make whatever it takes,
ring you up, call you down, sign your name, secret love
Couldn't I take you in and make you mine?

These words, "You will be mine"
These words, "You will be mine, all the time", oh

I tripped and fell, did I fall?
What I want you to feel, I want to feel it now

You know with love come strange currencies 
and here is my appeal:

I need a chance, a second chance, a third chance, a fourth chance,
a word, a signal, a nod, a little breath
just to fool myself, catch myself, to make it real, real

These words, "You will be mine"
These words, "You will be mine, all the time", oh

These words, "You will be mine"
These words haunt me, hunt me down, catch in my throat, make me pray,
say love's combined, oh


@SONG: REVOLUTION

your revolution is a silly idea, yeah
all your friends are feeling had
it's like you need a reason to be feeling bad
you sport an armband when your good and mad

la la la la revolution (the future never happened)

i don't know why i'm feeling bad, yeah
i picked up a bad vibration
oliver north is running for senate
bomb the abortion clinic
reagan's defense is the deficit
the virus was invented
black man can't get acquited
of the crimes that we committed
the future never happened,  it never happened

la la la la revolution (the future never happened)

your revolution is a silly idea, yeah
you tried to look like a punk rocker
a whole lotta sneer, and  little curl
i don't have time for your theatrics
everybody knows that you're a bad actress
i don't know why i'm feeling bad, yeah
but a scum is rising

la la la la revolution (the future never happened)


@SONG: TONGUE
(posted by Michael Stipe to rec.music.rem) 

call my name, here I come.
90 to nothing, watch me run. 
you call.
I am ashamed to say. 
ugly girls know their fate. 
anybody can get laid.
you want a room with a fire escape.
I want to tell you how much I hate this.
don't leave that stuff all over me.  it pains me.
please just leave it. 
I should toss that vanity license plate. 
toss that make-up painted face.
box those poems, chocolate cake.
scratch that name on the record player.
please just leave me be.  
don't lay that stuff all over me.
it crawls all over. all over me. 
call my name, here I come. 
your last ditch lay, will I never learn?
caramel turn on a dusty apology. 
it crawls all over me. 
you turn all over.  
it pains me.
please just leave it.


@SONG: MAN ON THE MOON

Mott the Hoople and the game of Life.  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Andy Kaufman in the wrestling match.  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Monopoly, Twenty one, checkers, and chess.  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Mister Fred Blassie in a breakfast mess.  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Let's play Twister, let's play Risk.  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
See you (in?) heaven if you make the list.  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Hey, Andy did you hear about this one?  Tell me, are you locked in the punch?
Hey Andy are you goofing on Elvis?  Hey, baby.  Are we losing touch?
If you believed they put a man on the moon, man on the moon.
If you believe there's nothing up my sleeve, then nothing is cool.

Moses went walking with the staff of wood.  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Newton got beaned by the apple good.  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Egypt was troubled by the horrible asp.  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Mister Charles Darwin had the gall to ask.  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Hey Andy did you hear about this one?  Tell me, are you locked in the punch?
Hey, Andy are you goofing on Elvis?  Hey, baby.  Are you having fun?
If you believed they put a man on the moon, man on the moon.
If you believe there's nothing up my sleeve, then nothing is cool.

Here's a little agit for the never-believer.  Yeah, yeah, yeah,yeah.
Here's a little ghost for the offering.  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Here's a truck stop instead of Saint Peter's.  Yeah, yeah, yeah,yeah.
Mister Andy Kaufman's gone wrestling [wrestling bears].  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Hey Andy did you hear about this one?  Tell me, are you locked in the punch?
Hey Andy are you goofing on Elvis, hey baby, are we losing touch?
If you believed they put a man on the moon, man on the moon.
If you believe there's nothing up my sleeve, then nothing is cool.


@SONG: COUNTRY FEEDBACK

This flower is scorched
This film is on
On a maddening loop.
These clothes,
These clothes don't fit us right
I'm to blame
It's all the same
It's all the same

You come to me with a bone in your hand
You come to me with your hair curled tight
You come to me with positions
You come to me with excuses
Ducked out in a row
You wear me out
You wear me out

We've been through fake-a-breakdown
Self hurt
Plastics, collections
Self help, self pain,
EST, psychics, fuck all
I was central
I had control
I lost my head
I need this
I need this
A paper weight, junk garage
Winter rain, a honey pot
Crazy, all the lovers have been tagged.
A hotline, a wanted ad
It's crazy what you could've had
It's crazy what you could've had
It's crazy what you could've had
I need this
I need this


@SONG: HALF A WORLD AWAY

This could be the saddest dusk
I've ever seen
Turn to a miracle
high alive
My mind is racing
As it always will
My hand is tired my heart aches
I'm half a world away here
my head sworn
To go it alone
And hold it along
Haul it along
And hold it
Go it alone
Hold it along and hold, hold.

This lonely deep sit hollow
I'm half a world
Half the world away
My shoes are gone
My life spent
I had too much to drink
I didn't think
and I I didn't think of you
I guess that's all I needed
To go it alone
And hold it along
Haul it along
And hold it
Blackbirds backwards forwards and fall and hold  hold.

Oh this lonely world is wasted
Pathetic eyes high alive
blind to the tide that turns the sea
This storm it came up strong
it shook the trees
And blew away our fear
I couldn't even hear

To go it alone
And hold it along
Haul it along
And hold it
To go it alone
And hold it along
Haul it along
To go it alone
And hold it along
Haul it along
And hold it
Blackbirds backwards forwards and fall and hold  hold.

This could be the saddest dusk
I've ever seen
Turn to a miracle
high alive
My mind is racing
As it always will
My hands tired my heart aches
I'm half a world away and go.


@SONG: LOSING MY RELIGION

Life is bigger
It's bigger than you
And you are not me
The lengths that I will go to
The distance in your eyes
Oh no I've said too much
I set it up

That's me in the corner
That's me in the spotlight
Losing my religion
Trying to keep up with you
And I don't know if I can do it
Oh no I've said too much
I haven't said enough
I thought that I heard you laughing
I thought that I heard you sing
I think I thought I saw you try

Every whisper
Of every waking hour I'm
Choosing my confessions
Trying to keep an eye on you
Like a hurt lost and blinded fool
Oh no I've said too much
I set it up

Consider this
The hint of the century
Consider this
The slip that brought me
To my knees failed
What if all these fantasies
Come flailing around
Now I've said too much
I thought that I heard you laughing
I thought that I heard you sing
I think I thought I saw you try

But that was just a dream
That was just a dream


@SONG: POP SONG 89
 
Hello, I saw you, I know you, I knew you
I think I can remember your name...name
Hello I'm sorry, I lost myself
I think I thought you were someone else
 
Should we talk about the weather?  (Hi...hi, hi)
Should we talk about the government?  (Hi...hi, hi, hi)
 
Hello, how are you?  I know you, I knew you
I think I can remember your name...name
Hello, I'm sorry I lost myself
I think I thought you were someone else
 
Should we talk about the weather?  (Hi...hi, hi)
Should we talk about the government?  (Hi...hi, hi, hi)

Hello my friend, are you visible today?
You know I never knew that it could be so strange...strange
Hello, I'm sorry, I lost myself
I think I thought you were someone else

Should we talk about the weather?  (Hi...hi, hi)
Should we talk about the government?  (Hi...hi, hi, hi)

 
@SONG: FINEST WORKSONG
 
The time to rise has been engaged
You're better best to rearrange
I'm talking here to me alone
I listen to the finest worksong
Your finest hour
 
Another chance has been engaged
To throw Thoreau and rearrange
You are following this time
I beg you not beg to rhyme (blow your horn)
Your finest hour (blow your horn)
 
Take your instinct by the reins
Your better best to rearrange
What we want and what we need
Has been confused been confused (blow your horn)
Your finest hour (blow your horn)
 
(repeat 3rd verse)

 
@SONG: GET UP
 
Sleep delays my life  (get up, get up)
Where does time go? (get up, get up, get up)
I don't know
Sleep, sleep, sleepy head (get up, get up, get up)
Wake it up...up (get up, get up)
You've got all your life (way up ahead) (get up, get up, get up)
 
Dreams they complicate my life (Dreams they complement my life)
 
I've seen you laying pined (get up, get up)
I've seen you laying pined (get up, get up)
Life is rough...rough (get up, get up, get up)
I've seen you laying down (get up)
With the loving kind (get up, get up)
I know life is hard...hard (where goes your time?)
Where to turn?  Where to turn?
 
Dreams they complicate my life (Dreams they complement my life)

Dreamtime...

Dreams they complicate my life (Dreams they complement my life)
This time, no escape, I wake up.  (get up, get up)

 
@SONG: STAR 69

You don't have to take the bar exam to see
What you did is Ignoramous 103

Where have I got to hang my hat
you don't have line to me
all this just to be your friend
I was there to tell you
extortion and arson, petty larceny

I know you called.  I know you called.  I know you called.
I know you called.  I know you called.  I know you hung up my line.
Star 69.

I know all about the warehouse fire.
I know squirrelies didn't chew the wire.

Three people have my number, the other two were with me.
I don't ________ to I'm not your patsy.
This time you have gone too far with me.

I know you called.  I know you called.  I know you called.
I know you called.  I know you called.  I know you hung up my line.
Star 69.

Why'd you put your quarter down on me?
This reads like some dark Inside Edition, Hard Copy.
I can't be your character witness, I can't be your alibi.
Don't arrange the FBI, here the spy versus spy.
You my friend are guilty as can be.

I know you called.  I know you called.  I know you called.
I know you called.  I know you called.  I can't be your alibi.
Star 69.

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~~ENCORE:~~
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@SONG: LET ME IN

Yeah, all those stars drip down like butter,
in promises, a sea.
We hold out our pans, lift our hands to catch them.
We eat them up, drink them up, up, up, up

Heyyyyyy, let me in.
Heyyyyyy, let me in.

I only wish that I could hear you whisper down,
mister fisherman, to a less peculiar ground.
He gathered up his loved ones and he brought them all around
to say goodbye, nice try.

Heyyyyyy, let me in.  yeah yeah yeah
Heyyyyyy, let me in.  Let me in.

I had a mind to try to stop you.  Let me in.  Let me in.
I've got tar on my feet and I can't see.
All the birds look down and laugh at me.
Clumsy, crawling out of my skin.

Heyyyyyy, let me in.   yeah yeah yeah
Heyyyyyy, let me in.
Heyyyyyy, let me in.   yeah yeah yeah
Heyyyyyy, let me in.


@SONG: EVERYBODY HURTS

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, 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.

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.  (repeat & fade)
(Everybody hurts.  You are not alone.)


@SONG: FALL ON ME
 
There's a problem, feathers iron
Bargain buildings, weights and pullies
Feathers hit the ground before the weight can leave the air
Buy the sky and sell the sky and tell the sky and tell the sky
 
Don't fall on me (What is it up in the air for) (It's gonna fall)
Fall on me (If it's there for long) (It's gonna fall)
Fall on me (It's over it's over me) (It's gonna fall)
 
There's the progress we have found       (when the rain)
A way to talk around the problem         (when the children reign)
Building towered foresight               (keep your conscience in the dark)
isn't anything at all                    (melt the statues in the park)
Buy the sky and sell the sky and bleed the sky and tell the sky

(repeat chorus)
Don't fall on me
 
Well I could keep it above
But then it wouldn't be sky anymore
So if I send it to you you've got to promise to keep it whole
 
Buy the sky and sell the sky and lift your arms up to the sky
And ask the sky and ask the sky

(repeat chorus, etc.)


@SONG: DEPARTURE

Just arrived Singapore, San Sebastian, Spain, 26-hour trip.
Salt Lake City, come in spring.
Over the salt flats a hailstorm brought you back to me.
Salt Lake City, come in spring.
Over the salt flats a hailstorm brought you back to me.

Here it comes (I'm carried away)
Here it comes (I'm carried away)
Here it comes, back, back.

Departure, godspeed, bless his heart, good boy.
What a fuck-up, what a fighter.
Free-fall, motorcycle, hang-glider,
Hung on the vine like a poison spider.
Win a eulogy with William Greider,
car crash, ptomaine, explosion-provider,
bus plunge, avalanche, poison spider.
Free-fall, motorcycle, hang-glider.

Here it comes (I'm carried away)
Here it comes (I'm carried away)
Here it comes, back, back.

Go, go, go, yeah.

Everybody is young forever.
There's so much to tell you, so little time.
I've come a long way since the whatever,
shit, I still see a word, think of you.
There's so much that I can't do, yeah.
You will be young forever.
There's so much that I can't do.
There isn't so much that I can't do.

Here it comes (I'm carried away)
Here it comes (I'm carried away)
Here it comes, back, back.


@SONG: IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT (AND I FEEL FINE)
(from official lyric sheet)

That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane -
Lenny Bruce is not afraid.  Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn -
world serves its own needs, don't misserve your own needs.  Feed it up a knock,
speed, grunt no, strength no.  Ladder structure clatter with fear of height,
down height.  Wire in a fire, represent the seven games in a government for
hire and a combat site.  Left her, wasn't coming in a hurry with the furies
breathing down your neck.  Team by team reporters baffled, trump, tethered
crop.  Look at that low plane!  Fine then.  Uh oh, overflow, population,
common group, but it'll do.  Save yourself, serve yourself.  World serves its
own needs, listen to your heart bleed.  Tell me with the rapture and the
reverent in 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 tower.  Slash and burn,
return, listen to yourself churn.  Lock him in uniform and book burning,
blood letting.  Every motive escalate.  Automotive incinerate.  Light a candle,
light a motive.  Step down, step down.  Watch a heel crush, crush.  Uh oh,
this means no fear - cavalier.  Renegade and steer clear!  A tournament,
a 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 tripped a nice continental drift divide.  Mount St. Edelite.
Leonard Bernstein.  Leonid Breshnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs.
Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom!  You symbiotic, patriotic,
slam, but 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)