REM lyrics part 1
R.E.M. LYRICS VERSION 3.2, PART 1
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Chronic Town
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WOLVES, LOWER
Suspicion yourself suspicion yourself don't get caught
Suspicion yourself suspicion yourself let us out
Wilder lower wolves here's a house to put wolves out the door
In a corner garden wilder lower wolves
House in order
Down and around beam the party to rise
GARDENING AT NIGHT
I see your money on the floor I felt the pocket change through all
The feelings that broke through that door
Just didn't seem to be too real
Beyond it's nothing but a fancy sun just
Hurts my eyes somewhere it must be time for penitance
Gardening at night is never where
Gardening at night
The neighbors go to bed at two
Crawl out of bed and pull the chain
Tried just changing every month
They said it couldn't be arranged
Well you collected garbage son but they were busy in the rows
Though not to see the sun gardening at night just didn't grow
Your sister said that you're too young
They should know they've been there twice
Carl was two in fifty one
They said it couldn't be arranged
CARNIVAL OF SORTS (BOX CARS)
There's a secret stigma weeping willow
A diminished carnival of sorts
Chronic town poster torn weeping willow
Stranger stranger to these parts
Gentlemen don't get caught cages under cage
Gentlemen don't get caught
Boxcars (are pulling) out of town
Cages under cages under cages under cage
Secret stigma weeping willow
Stranger stranger to these parts
Chronic town poster torn weeping willow
Diminish stranger
1,000,000
Secluded in a marker stone
Not only deadlier but smarter too smarter too
All along the chain secluded in the ruin
Secluded in a marker stone
Not only deadlier but smarter too smarter too
I could live a million years
All along all along all along the ruin
Secret in secret in secret in the river
Secluded in a marker stone
Not only deadlier but smarter too smarter too
STUMBLE
We'll stumble through the yard
We'll stumble through the yard
We'll stumble through the ABC
We'll stumble through the yard
Full its feathers flow arisen over legend's door
Yellow mixed with golden nails
Scan the graveyard dig the weeds
Form a chain
It was round about midnight hits the town imagine going for a walk
things get around to taking place ________ it's not a waste of time the
rich get a little poorer things get around to take you places if they're
going to happen at all don't need that jazz don't need that stuff it was
round about midnight here she comes it was round about midnight eastern
time
Form a chain
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Murmur
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RADIO FREE EUROPE
Decide yourself if radio's gonna stay
Reason it could polish up the gray
Put that put that put that up your wall
That this isn't country at all
Radio station decide yourself
Keep me out of country in the word
Deal of fortunes leading us absurd
Push that push that push that to the floor
That this isn't nothing at all
Straight up above where to go
Calling out in the transit calling out in the transit
Radio Free Europe
Decide defy the media too fast
Instead of pushing palaces to fall
Put that put that put that up your wall
That this isn't fortunate at all
Radio station decide yourself
Calling out in the transit calling out in the transit
Radio Free Europe
Decide yourself coming on a boat media's too fast
Keep me out of country in the word
Disappointment into us absurd
Straight up above where to go
Calling out in the transit calling out in the transit
Radio Free Europe
PILGRIMAGE
Take a turn take a turn
Take off marching take off marching
They called the club a two-headed cow
Your hate clipped and distant your luck with pilgrimage
Rest assured this will not last take a turn for the worst
Your hate clipped and distant your luck a two-headed cow
Pilgrimage has gained momentum
Take a turn take a turn
Take off marching take off marching
Pilgrimage
Speaking in tongues it's with a broken lip
Your hate clipped and distant your luck with pilgrimage
Rest assured this will not last take a turn for the worst
Your hate clipped and distant your luck a two-headed cow
Your hate clipped and distant your luck
Rest assured this will not last take a turn for the worst
Your hate clipped and distant your luck two-headed
LAUGHING
Laocoon and her two sons
Pressured storm try to move
Love them more emotion bound
Martyr misconstrued
Lighted in a room naked room
Lighted lighted laughing in tune
Lighted lighted laughing
Laocoon and her two sons
Run the gamut sated few
Nothing more emotion bound
Martyr misconstrued
In a room lock the door latch the room
Laocoon and her two sons
Run the gamut settled new
Find their place a little laugh
Lock the doors and that's the room
TALK ABOUT THE PASSION
Empty bread empty mouths combien reaction
Empty bread empty mouths talk about the passion
Not everyone can carry the weight of the world
Talk about the passion
Empty bread empty mouths combien reaction
Empty bread empty mouths talk about the passion
Combien combien combien de temps?
MORAL KIOSK
They scratch for scandals in the twilight
Trying to shock but instead
Idle hands all orient to her
Pass a magic pillow under head
It's so much more attractive inside the moral kiosk
Inside ___ fire twilight
They scratch for scandals in the twilight
She was laughing like a horae
Put that knee in sour landslide
Take the steps to dash a roving heart
PERFECT CIRCLE
Put your hair back you get to leave
Eleven gallows on your sleeve
Shallow figure winner's pain
Eleven shadows way out of place
Standing two sure shoulders high in the room
Pull your dress on and stay real close
Who might leave you where I left off
A perfect circle of acquaintances and friends
Drink another coin a phrase
Heaven assure shoulders high in the room
Try to win and suit your needs
Speak out sometimes and try to win
Standing two ___ shoulders high in the room
CATAPULT
When we were little boys
When we were little girls
It's nine o'clock don't try to turn it off
Cowered in a hole open your mouth and question
Did we miss anything?
When we were little boys
When we were little girls
It's nine o'clock don't try to turn it off
Cowered in a hole open your mouth
We in step in hand mother remembers this
Hear the howl of the road the question
Did we miss anything?
Orange could be darker
When we were little boys
When we were little girls
It's nine o'clock don't try to turn it off
Cowered in a hole open your mouth
We in step in hand mother remembers this
Hear the howl of the road question
Did we miss anything?
SITTING STILL
It's name a god we all agree
Secret stop stop it well-read
We could find it in the sieve
We could gather throw a fit
Up to par ___
See them try for the big kill wasting time sitting still
I'm the sun and you can read
I'm the sun and you're not dead
We could find it in the sieve
We could gather throw a fit
I can hear you
You can gather when I talk talk until we're blue
You could get away from me get away from me
I can hear you
Can you hear me?
9-9
Got to punch right on target
Twisting tongues got to strike
Down his back all nine yards
Down her back
Give me a compulsion give me a couple of
Pointers tantalizing
Conversation fear
SHAKING THROUGH
Could it be that one small voice doesn't count in the world
Yellow like a geisha dawn deny it all the way
Could this be three beaten
Autumn marches on
Yellow like a geisha dawn deny it all the way
Shaking through all the day
Or have we gone way too far
Taking after rain
Yellow like a geisha dawn deny it all the way
Shaking through all the day
Shaking through opportune
In my life
Is that a steal
Children of today on parade
Yellow like a geisha dawn deny it all the way
Shaking through all the day
WE WALK
Up the stairs to the landing up the stairs into the hall
Take oasis more odd spaces
We walk through the wood we walk
Up the stairs to the landing up the stairs into the hall
Take oasis more odd spaces
We walk through the woods we walk
Take oasis take oasis take oasis take oasis
Up the stairs to the landing up the stairs into the hall
Take oasis more odd spaces
We walk through the world we walk
Up the stairs to the landing up the stairs into the hall
Take oasis more odd spaces
Up the stairs to the landing up the stairs into the hall
Take oasis more odd spaces
Up the stairs to the landing up the stairs into the hall
Into the hall
WEST OF THE FIELDS
Long gone intuition to assume are gone when we try
Dream of a living jungle in my way back home when we try
West of the fields
Long gone
West of the fields
Dreams of Elysian to assume are gone when we try
Tell now what is dreaming
When we try to listen with your eyes oversimplify
The animals how strange
Try try to ___
Dreams of Elysian to assume are gone when we try
Tell now what is dreaming
When we try to listen with your eyes when we try
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Reckoning
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HARBORCOAT
They crowded up together with their noses worn off
A handshake is worthy it's all that you've got
Metal shoes on wood it pushed her right back
There's a splinter in her eye and it reads react
They shifted the statues for harboring ghosts
Redden their necks color their clothes
Then we danced ________
She gathered the corners and called it her gown
Please find my harborcoat can't go outside without it
Find my harborcoat can't go outside without it
They crowded up together with their noses worn off
A handshake is worthy it's all that you've got
Metal shoes on wood pushed her right back
There's a splinter in your eye it reads react R-E-A-C-T
They've shifted the statues for harboring ghosts
Redden their necks color their clothes
________________
She gathered the corners and called it her gown
She said...
SEVEN CHINESE BROTHERS
The smell of sweet short-haired boy woman offers pull up a chair
Taking one symphony now we've just begun the battle
Wrap your heel in bones of steel turn the leg a twist of color
Autumn waited hold it to you in the colored come another
Seven chinese brothers swallowing the ocean
Seven thousand years to sleep away the pain
She will return, she will return
The smell of sweet short-haired boy woman offers pull up a seat
Taking one symphony now we've just begun the battle
Wrap your heel in bones of steel turn the leg a twist of color
Autumn waded seven seas swimming colored come another
The smell of sweet short-haired boy woman offers pull up a chair
Taking one symphony now I guess they've lost that battle
Wrap your heel in bones of steel turn the leg a twist of color
Autumn waded seven seas swimming colored come another
SOUTHERN CENTRAL RAIN (I'M SORRY) (parts quoted by Michael Stipe in Rolling
Stone in letter printed December, 1988)
Did you never call I waited for your call
These rivers of suggestion are driving me away
The trees will bend the cities wash away
The city on the river has a girl without a dream
I'm sorry
Eastern to mountain third party call the lines are down
The wise man built his words upon the rocks
But I'm not bound to follow suit
The trees will bend the conversation's dimmed
Will build yourself another home, this choice isn't mine
Did you never call I waited for your call
These rivers of suggestion are driving me away
The ocean sands the conversation's dimmed
Will build yourself another dream, this choice isn't mine
PRETTY PERSUASION
It's what I want all has been tried
Following easily ________
Cannot shuffle in this heat it's all wrong
Try to put that on your sleeve it's all wrong it's all wrong
He's got a pretty persuasion
She's got pretty persuasion
Goddamn your confusion
She's got pretty persuasion
________ all has been tried
Follow easily _________
And I put that in this heat it's all wrong
Try to wear that on my sleeve it's all wrong all wrong
He's got a pretty persuasion
She's got pretty persuasion
Goddamn your confusion
He's got pretty persuasion
________________
________________
________________
It's what I want ________ all has been tried
Follow easily ________
Try to put that in this heat it's all wrong
Cannot wear that on your sleeve it's all wrong it's all wrong
TIME AFTER TIME (ANNELISE)
Ask the girl of the hour by the water tower's watch
If your friends took a fall, are you obligated to follow
Time after time after time
If the bull's on his hooves if you gather friends by the tower
If you try to refuse, will they judge your worth by the hour
If your tired and you're tried you can find me in my room
You can stay if you want and the third time you can't lose
Ask the girl of the hour, by the water tower's watch
We can fight if you want but who will turn out the light
SECOND GUESSING
Why're you trying to second guess me
I am tired of second guessing
What will be your book this season
Who will be your book this season
Why're you trying to second guess me
I am tired of second guessing
What will be your book this season
Who will be your book this season
Here we are
Why're you trying to second guess me
I am tired of second guessing
What will be your book this season
________ will be my book this season
LETTER NEVER SENT
It's been pretty simple so far vacation in Athens is calling me
And knock knock knock on wood I thought I'd left you behind
Heaven is yours heaven is yours heaven is yours where I live
The thought of the catacombs left my soul home
This letter never sent
And it's so far it's so dark i'm so lost
Nervous journey seven shores no one show us where I live
When I'm moving too fast where is my new address
The water is evening out the catacombs are filling in
If my soul was made of stone then knock knock so ____ dark
And it's so far it's so dark i'm so lost
And it's so far it's so far it's so far
Nobody show us nobody show us somebody show us where I live
CAMERA
>From the inside room when the front room green
Becomes your special book, it was simple then
When the party lulls if we fall by the side
Will you be remembered will she be remembered
Alone in a crowd the bartered lantern borrowed
If I'm to be a camera, then who will be your friends
I fell by your bed once I didn't want to tell you
I should keep myself in between the pages
Of the green light room if we fall by the side
>From the inside room when the front room green
Becomes your special book, it was simple then
When the party lulls if we fall by the side
I still like you can you remember
(DON'T GO BACK TO) ROCKVILLE
Looking at your watch a third time waiting in the station for a bus
Going to a place that's far, so far away and if that's not enough
Going where nobody says hello, they don't talk to anybody they don't know
You'll wind up in some factory that's full time filth and nowhere left to go
Walk home to an empty house, sit around all by yourself
I know it might sound strange, but I believe
You'll be coming back before too long
Don't go back to Rockville
And waste another year
At night I drink myself to sleep and pretend
I don't care if you're not here with me
'Cause it's so much easier to handle
All my problems if I'm too far out to sea
But something better happen soon
Or it's gonna be too late to bring you back
It's not as though I really need you
If you were here I'd only leave you
But everybody else in town only wants to bring you down and
That's not how it ought to be
I know it might sound strange, but I believe
You'll be coming back before too long
LITTLE AMERICA
I can't see myself at thirty I don't buy a lack of thirty
Caught like flies wishing for tomorrow's jewlery forget it
Lighted in the amber yard a green shell back green shell back
Listen for tomorrow's eyes entry bell talk like real south
The biggest wagon is the empty wagon is the noisiest
The Conestoga horse Jefferson I think we're lost
Who will tend the fine museums who will dust today's belongings
Who will sweep the floors engineer the givens
Rally round your leaders it's the mediator season
Ann is on the beach do you realize the life she's led
The biggest wagon is the empty wagon is the noisiest
The Conestoga horse oh man I think we're lost
The biggest wagon is the empty wagon is the noisiest
The matter of course Jefferson drive
Lighted in the amber yard a green shell back green shell back
Skylight stock tight unequal park tight entry talk like real south
He's in there son it's the tame a logic knot stuck kidders game
Another Greenville another Magic Mart marker trevor rifle the door
The biggest wagon is the empty wagon is the noisiest
The Conestoga horse Jefferson I think we're lost
The biggest wagon is the empty wagon is the noisiest
The Conestoga horse Jefferson I think we're lost
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Chronic Town
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WOLVES, LOWER
Suspicion yourself suspicion yourself don't get caught
Suspicion yourself suspicion yourself let us out
Wilder lower wolves here's a house to put wolves out the door
In a corner garden wilder lower wolves
House in order
Down and around beam the party to rise
GARDENING AT NIGHT
I see your money on the floor I felt the pocket change through all
The feelings that broke through that door
Just didn't seem to be too real
Beyond it's nothing but a fancy sun just
Hurts my eyes somewhere it must be time for penitance
Gardening at night is never where
Gardening at night
The neighbors go to bed at two
Crawl out of bed and pull the chain
Tried just changing every month
They said it couldn't be arranged
Well you collected garbage son but they were busy in the rows
Though not to see the sun gardening at night just didn't grow
Your sister said that you're too young
They should know they've been there twice
Carl was two in fifty one
They said it couldn't be arranged
CARNIVAL OF SORTS (BOX CARS)
There's a secret stigma weeping willow
A diminished carnival of sorts
Chronic town poster torn weeping willow
Stranger stranger to these parts
Gentlemen don't get caught cages under cage
Gentlemen don't get caught
Boxcars (are pulling) out of town
Cages under cages under cages under cage
Secret stigma weeping willow
Stranger stranger to these parts
Chronic town poster torn weeping willow
Diminish stranger
1,000,000
Secluded in a marker stone
Not only deadlier but smarter too smarter too
All along the chain secluded in the ruin
Secluded in a marker stone
Not only deadlier but smarter too smarter too
I could live a million years
All along all along all along the ruin
Secret in secret in secret in the river
Secluded in a marker stone
Not only deadlier but smarter too smarter too
STUMBLE
We'll stumble through the yard
We'll stumble through the yard
We'll stumble through the ABC
We'll stumble through the yard
Full its feathers flow arisen over legend's door
Yellow mixed with golden nails
Scan the graveyard dig the weeds
Form a chain
It was round about midnight hits the town imagine going for a walk
things get around to taking place ________ it's not a waste of time the
rich get a little poorer things get around to take you places if they're
going to happen at all don't need that jazz don't need that stuff it was
round about midnight here she comes it was round about midnight eastern
time
Form a chain
******
Murmur
******
RADIO FREE EUROPE
Decide yourself if radio's gonna stay
Reason it could polish up the gray
Put that put that put that up your wall
That this isn't country at all
Radio station decide yourself
Keep me out of country in the word
Deal of fortunes leading us absurd
Push that push that push that to the floor
That this isn't nothing at all
Straight up above where to go
Calling out in the transit calling out in the transit
Radio Free Europe
Decide defy the media too fast
Instead of pushing palaces to fall
Put that put that put that up your wall
That this isn't fortunate at all
Radio station decide yourself
Calling out in the transit calling out in the transit
Radio Free Europe
Decide yourself coming on a boat media's too fast
Keep me out of country in the word
Disappointment into us absurd
Straight up above where to go
Calling out in the transit calling out in the transit
Radio Free Europe
PILGRIMAGE
Take a turn take a turn
Take off marching take off marching
They called the club a two-headed cow
Your hate clipped and distant your luck with pilgrimage
Rest assured this will not last take a turn for the worst
Your hate clipped and distant your luck a two-headed cow
Pilgrimage has gained momentum
Take a turn take a turn
Take off marching take off marching
Pilgrimage
Speaking in tongues it's with a broken lip
Your hate clipped and distant your luck with pilgrimage
Rest assured this will not last take a turn for the worst
Your hate clipped and distant your luck a two-headed cow
Your hate clipped and distant your luck
Rest assured this will not last take a turn for the worst
Your hate clipped and distant your luck two-headed
LAUGHING
Laocoon and her two sons
Pressured storm try to move
Love them more emotion bound
Martyr misconstrued
Lighted in a room naked room
Lighted lighted laughing in tune
Lighted lighted laughing
Laocoon and her two sons
Run the gamut sated few
Nothing more emotion bound
Martyr misconstrued
In a room lock the door latch the room
Laocoon and her two sons
Run the gamut settled new
Find their place a little laugh
Lock the doors and that's the room
TALK ABOUT THE PASSION
Empty bread empty mouths combien reaction
Empty bread empty mouths talk about the passion
Not everyone can carry the weight of the world
Talk about the passion
Empty bread empty mouths combien reaction
Empty bread empty mouths talk about the passion
Combien combien combien de temps?
MORAL KIOSK
They scratch for scandals in the twilight
Trying to shock but instead
Idle hands all orient to her
Pass a magic pillow under head
It's so much more attractive inside the moral kiosk
Inside ___ fire twilight
They scratch for scandals in the twilight
She was laughing like a horae
Put that knee in sour landslide
Take the steps to dash a roving heart
PERFECT CIRCLE
Put your hair back you get to leave
Eleven gallows on your sleeve
Shallow figure winner's pain
Eleven shadows way out of place
Standing two sure shoulders high in the room
Pull your dress on and stay real close
Who might leave you where I left off
A perfect circle of acquaintances and friends
Drink another coin a phrase
Heaven assure shoulders high in the room
Try to win and suit your needs
Speak out sometimes and try to win
Standing two ___ shoulders high in the room
CATAPULT
When we were little boys
When we were little girls
It's nine o'clock don't try to turn it off
Cowered in a hole open your mouth and question
Did we miss anything?
When we were little boys
When we were little girls
It's nine o'clock don't try to turn it off
Cowered in a hole open your mouth
We in step in hand mother remembers this
Hear the howl of the road the question
Did we miss anything?
Orange could be darker
When we were little boys
When we were little girls
It's nine o'clock don't try to turn it off
Cowered in a hole open your mouth
We in step in hand mother remembers this
Hear the howl of the road question
Did we miss anything?
SITTING STILL
It's name a god we all agree
Secret stop stop it well-read
We could find it in the sieve
We could gather throw a fit
Up to par ___
See them try for the big kill wasting time sitting still
I'm the sun and you can read
I'm the sun and you're not dead
We could find it in the sieve
We could gather throw a fit
I can hear you
You can gather when I talk talk until we're blue
You could get away from me get away from me
I can hear you
Can you hear me?
9-9
Got to punch right on target
Twisting tongues got to strike
Down his back all nine yards
Down her back
Give me a compulsion give me a couple of
Pointers tantalizing
Conversation fear
SHAKING THROUGH
Could it be that one small voice doesn't count in the world
Yellow like a geisha dawn deny it all the way
Could this be three beaten
Autumn marches on
Yellow like a geisha dawn deny it all the way
Shaking through all the day
Or have we gone way too far
Taking after rain
Yellow like a geisha dawn deny it all the way
Shaking through all the day
Shaking through opportune
In my life
Is that a steal
Children of today on parade
Yellow like a geisha dawn deny it all the way
Shaking through all the day
WE WALK
Up the stairs to the landing up the stairs into the hall
Take oasis more odd spaces
We walk through the wood we walk
Up the stairs to the landing up the stairs into the hall
Take oasis more odd spaces
We walk through the woods we walk
Take oasis take oasis take oasis take oasis
Up the stairs to the landing up the stairs into the hall
Take oasis more odd spaces
We walk through the world we walk
Up the stairs to the landing up the stairs into the hall
Take oasis more odd spaces
Up the stairs to the landing up the stairs into the hall
Take oasis more odd spaces
Up the stairs to the landing up the stairs into the hall
Into the hall
WEST OF THE FIELDS
Long gone intuition to assume are gone when we try
Dream of a living jungle in my way back home when we try
West of the fields
Long gone
West of the fields
Dreams of Elysian to assume are gone when we try
Tell now what is dreaming
When we try to listen with your eyes oversimplify
The animals how strange
Try try to ___
Dreams of Elysian to assume are gone when we try
Tell now what is dreaming
When we try to listen with your eyes when we try
*********
Reckoning
*********
HARBORCOAT
They crowded up together with their noses worn off
A handshake is worthy it's all that you've got
Metal shoes on wood it pushed her right back
There's a splinter in her eye and it reads react
They shifted the statues for harboring ghosts
Redden their necks color their clothes
Then we danced ________
She gathered the corners and called it her gown
Please find my harborcoat can't go outside without it
Find my harborcoat can't go outside without it
They crowded up together with their noses worn off
A handshake is worthy it's all that you've got
Metal shoes on wood pushed her right back
There's a splinter in your eye it reads react R-E-A-C-T
They've shifted the statues for harboring ghosts
Redden their necks color their clothes
________________
She gathered the corners and called it her gown
She said...
SEVEN CHINESE BROTHERS
The smell of sweet short-haired boy woman offers pull up a chair
Taking one symphony now we've just begun the battle
Wrap your heel in bones of steel turn the leg a twist of color
Autumn waited hold it to you in the colored come another
Seven chinese brothers swallowing the ocean
Seven thousand years to sleep away the pain
She will return, she will return
The smell of sweet short-haired boy woman offers pull up a seat
Taking one symphony now we've just begun the battle
Wrap your heel in bones of steel turn the leg a twist of color
Autumn waded seven seas swimming colored come another
The smell of sweet short-haired boy woman offers pull up a chair
Taking one symphony now I guess they've lost that battle
Wrap your heel in bones of steel turn the leg a twist of color
Autumn waded seven seas swimming colored come another
SOUTHERN CENTRAL RAIN (I'M SORRY) (parts quoted by Michael Stipe in Rolling
Stone in letter printed December, 1988)
Did you never call I waited for your call
These rivers of suggestion are driving me away
The trees will bend the cities wash away
The city on the river has a girl without a dream
I'm sorry
Eastern to mountain third party call the lines are down
The wise man built his words upon the rocks
But I'm not bound to follow suit
The trees will bend the conversation's dimmed
Will build yourself another home, this choice isn't mine
Did you never call I waited for your call
These rivers of suggestion are driving me away
The ocean sands the conversation's dimmed
Will build yourself another dream, this choice isn't mine
PRETTY PERSUASION
It's what I want all has been tried
Following easily ________
Cannot shuffle in this heat it's all wrong
Try to put that on your sleeve it's all wrong it's all wrong
He's got a pretty persuasion
She's got pretty persuasion
Goddamn your confusion
She's got pretty persuasion
________ all has been tried
Follow easily _________
And I put that in this heat it's all wrong
Try to wear that on my sleeve it's all wrong all wrong
He's got a pretty persuasion
She's got pretty persuasion
Goddamn your confusion
He's got pretty persuasion
________________
________________
________________
It's what I want ________ all has been tried
Follow easily ________
Try to put that in this heat it's all wrong
Cannot wear that on your sleeve it's all wrong it's all wrong
TIME AFTER TIME (ANNELISE)
Ask the girl of the hour by the water tower's watch
If your friends took a fall, are you obligated to follow
Time after time after time
If the bull's on his hooves if you gather friends by the tower
If you try to refuse, will they judge your worth by the hour
If your tired and you're tried you can find me in my room
You can stay if you want and the third time you can't lose
Ask the girl of the hour, by the water tower's watch
We can fight if you want but who will turn out the light
SECOND GUESSING
Why're you trying to second guess me
I am tired of second guessing
What will be your book this season
Who will be your book this season
Why're you trying to second guess me
I am tired of second guessing
What will be your book this season
Who will be your book this season
Here we are
Why're you trying to second guess me
I am tired of second guessing
What will be your book this season
________ will be my book this season
LETTER NEVER SENT
It's been pretty simple so far vacation in Athens is calling me
And knock knock knock on wood I thought I'd left you behind
Heaven is yours heaven is yours heaven is yours where I live
The thought of the catacombs left my soul home
This letter never sent
And it's so far it's so dark i'm so lost
Nervous journey seven shores no one show us where I live
When I'm moving too fast where is my new address
The water is evening out the catacombs are filling in
If my soul was made of stone then knock knock so ____ dark
And it's so far it's so dark i'm so lost
And it's so far it's so far it's so far
Nobody show us nobody show us somebody show us where I live
CAMERA
>From the inside room when the front room green
Becomes your special book, it was simple then
When the party lulls if we fall by the side
Will you be remembered will she be remembered
Alone in a crowd the bartered lantern borrowed
If I'm to be a camera, then who will be your friends
I fell by your bed once I didn't want to tell you
I should keep myself in between the pages
Of the green light room if we fall by the side
>From the inside room when the front room green
Becomes your special book, it was simple then
When the party lulls if we fall by the side
I still like you can you remember
(DON'T GO BACK TO) ROCKVILLE
Looking at your watch a third time waiting in the station for a bus
Going to a place that's far, so far away and if that's not enough
Going where nobody says hello, they don't talk to anybody they don't know
You'll wind up in some factory that's full time filth and nowhere left to go
Walk home to an empty house, sit around all by yourself
I know it might sound strange, but I believe
You'll be coming back before too long
Don't go back to Rockville
And waste another year
At night I drink myself to sleep and pretend
I don't care if you're not here with me
'Cause it's so much easier to handle
All my problems if I'm too far out to sea
But something better happen soon
Or it's gonna be too late to bring you back
It's not as though I really need you
If you were here I'd only leave you
But everybody else in town only wants to bring you down and
That's not how it ought to be
I know it might sound strange, but I believe
You'll be coming back before too long
LITTLE AMERICA
I can't see myself at thirty I don't buy a lack of thirty
Caught like flies wishing for tomorrow's jewlery forget it
Lighted in the amber yard a green shell back green shell back
Listen for tomorrow's eyes entry bell talk like real south
The biggest wagon is the empty wagon is the noisiest
The Conestoga horse Jefferson I think we're lost
Who will tend the fine museums who will dust today's belongings
Who will sweep the floors engineer the givens
Rally round your leaders it's the mediator season
Ann is on the beach do you realize the life she's led
The biggest wagon is the empty wagon is the noisiest
The Conestoga horse oh man I think we're lost
The biggest wagon is the empty wagon is the noisiest
The matter of course Jefferson drive
Lighted in the amber yard a green shell back green shell back
Skylight stock tight unequal park tight entry talk like real south
He's in there son it's the tame a logic knot stuck kidders game
Another Greenville another Magic Mart marker trevor rifle the door
The biggest wagon is the empty wagon is the noisiest
The Conestoga horse Jefferson I think we're lost
The biggest wagon is the empty wagon is the noisiest
The Conestoga horse Jefferson I think we're lost
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