I totally love this song, it's rockin! It's one of those songs I never tire of, even though I don't even know half of the words to it. It's one of those kick-ass, feel good kinda songs.


It's The End of the World As We Know it (and I Feel Fine)
REM

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. can't I have some time alone?
It's the end of the world as we know it can't I have some time alone? and I feel fine...fine...

It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it. can't I have some time alone?
It's the end of the world as we know it can't I have some time alone? and I feel fine...fine...

Gosh, I never thought I'd be able to sing along with the words but now that you've got them all printed out and everything...

heartbeatocean said:

I know, I miss half the words because they say them so fast. Kinda reminds me of the song by Billy Joel, "We Didn't Start the Fire". It's the same thing, he sings a whole bunch of words real fast.

I hate REM

FuNkeNsteiN said:

psychodelicide said:

I guess it's a kind of a rap song.

heartbeatocean said:

Yeah, it kinda is.

I LOVE this song! I remember I tried to memorize all the words back in high school and, after looking at this thread, I think that I got most of them wrong.

awesome song and awesome band.

JasmineFire said:

REM was my first concert. When I was seven. I almost fell alseep by the end (around midnight) but I was so happy.

shockadelicaa said:

You're really young!