REM lyrics part 2

R.E.M. LYRICS VERSION 3.2, PART 2

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Fables Of The Reconstruction
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FEELING GRAVITYS PULL

I fell asleep at just about every paragraph
Read the scene where gravity is pulling me around
Peel back the mountains peel back the sky
Stomp gravity into the floor
It's a Man Ray kind of sky
I'll show you what I can do with it
Time and distance are out of place here

Step up, step up, step up the sky is opening
With the lightest mind I felt gravity pull

Somewhere near the end it's sad
You can't do this I said I can
To shift sway rivers shift, oceans fall and mountains drift
It's a Man Ray kind of sky
I'll show you what I can do with it

________________
This is the easiest task I've ever had to do...

I fell asleep at just about every paragraph
Read the scene where gravity is pulling me around
Shift the swaying river's shift
Oceans fall and mountains drift
It's a Man Ray kind of sky
I'll show you what I can do with it
Time and distance are out of place here

________________
This is the easiest task I've ever had to do...
Gravity pulls me down

MAPS AND LEGENDS  (The intro of the LP version of this song is very
   garbled and unclear, but the same part in the version from the
   McCabe's show is much clearer, thus that is what appears here)


Is he to be reached, he's not to be reached
Is he to be reached, he's not to be reached
Call the fool in company
On his own where he'd rather be
Where he ought to be he sees what you can't see, can't you see that

Maybe he's caught in the legend
maybe he's caught in the mood
Maybe these maps and legends
Have been misunderstood

Down the way the roads divided
Name me the places you have seen
Those who know what I don't know
Have heard of the yellow red and green

The map that she's made him doesn't seem real
He just sees whatever he sees
Point to the legend point to the east
Point to the yellow red and green

DRIVER 8

The walls are built up stone by stone
The fields divided one by one
And the train conductor says
Take a break driver 8, driver 8 take a break
We've been on this shift too long

And the train conductor says
Take a break driver 8, driver 8 take a break
We can reach our destination, but we're still a ways away

Saw a treehouse on the outskirts of the farm
Power lines have floaters so the airplanes won't get snagged
Bells are ringing through the town again
Children look up all they hear is sky-blue bells ringing

Way to seal the hated heat
Way to put myself to sleep
Way to seal the hated heat
Way to put myself my children to sleep

Pilot did this song in a plane like that one
She is selling faith on a hotel crusade
Locomotive 8, Southern Crescent hear the bells ring again
This field of wheat is looking thin

And the train conductor says
Take a break driver 8, driver 8 take a break
We've been on this shift too long

LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT

Burn bright through the night, two pockets lead the way
To yours to go between the wall was razed today
To yours the names to call your others and your own
Keep these books well stocked away and take your happy home

My carpenter's out and running about talking to the street
My pockets are out and running about
Walking in the street to tell what I have hidden there

Burn bright through the night, two pockets lead the way
To yours to go between the wall was razed today
Raze the walls the tiniest flaws the carpenter should rest
So that when you tire of one side the other serves you best

The hills ringing hear the words in time
Listen to the holler listen to my walls within my tongue
When my ears go tin the air quicken tension build ________ inference suddenly
Life and how to live it

Raze the walls the tiniest flaws the carpenter should rest
So that when you tire of one side the other serves you best
Read about the wisdom ______________________________
A secret knock one hammer's locked the other wisdom lost

Listen listen to the holler
I will write a book it will be called Life and How to Live It

OLD MAN KENSEY

Old Man Kensey wants to be a sign painter
First he's got to learn to read
He's gonna be a clown on TV
Flexes his elbow taunt and free
That's my folly, I believe
Drink up the lake Kensey's awake
That's my folly, that's my mistake

Old Man Kensey wants to be a goalie
First he's got to learn to count
He's gonna be a clown on a circus mount
Letters to be signed and dropped off
Kensey's going far
__________________, stand on your head
That's my folly, I'm ready to go

Old Man Kensey wants to be a dog catcher
First he's got to learn to stand
He's gonna be a clown in a marching band
Letters to be signed ransom greed
That's my folly, I believe
Drink up the lake _______________
That's my folly, that's my mistake
Kensey's awake, stand on your head
That's my folly, I'm ready to go

CAN'T GET THERE FROM HERE (supposedly published in Guitar Magazine in 1985, but
                           a few lines were reprinted in Goldmine in 1987. Some
                           lyrics from the video as well)

When the world is a monster
Bad to swallow you whole
Kick the clay that holds those teeth in
Throw your troubles out the door
If you're needing inspiration
Philomath is where I go
Lawyer Jeff he knows the lowdown
He's mighty glad to visit home

I've been there I know the way
Can't get there from here

When your hands are feeling empty
Stick heads jumpin off the ground, 'round
Tris is sure to shirr the deers out
Run away sing my song

Hands down Calechee bound
Landlocked kiss the ground
Dirt of seven continents going round and round
Go on ahead Mr. Citywide hypnotized, suit and tied
Gentlemen, testify

If your world is a monster
Bad to swallow you whole
Philomath they know the lowdown
Throw your troubles out the door

GREEN GROW THE RUSHES

The wheelbarrows fallen
Look at my hands
I found some surplus cheaper hands
________________
Look at that building look at this man
Painted and whitewashed
Gone to find a cheaper hand
_________________
Green grow the rushes grow
The compass points the workers home

Pay for your freedom, find another gate
Guilt by associate the rushes wilted a long time ago
Guilty as you grow
Stay off that highway word is its not so safe
The grasses that hide a green back
The amber waves again and again
The amber waves of grain
Green grow the rushes grow
The compass points the workers home

KAHOUTEK

Who will stand alone
She _________ She would have known
___ built a bridge, jealous tore it down
At least it's something you've left behind
Like Kahoetek you were gone
We sat in the garden we stood on the ___
I won't deny it myself we never talked

He wore bangles she wore bells
On her toes and she don't __________
________ you were gone
Like Kahoetek completely dead
We will build a bridge he's going to tear it down
If I'm one to follow who will stand alone

Maybe you're not the problem ____________________
If you stand and holler ________________
________________
Michael built a bridge Michael tore it down
At least it's something you've left behind
Like Kahoetek you were gone
Michael built a bridge Michael tore it down
If I stand and holler will I stand alone

AUCTIONEER (ANOTHER ENGINE)

She didn't want to get pinned down by her prior town
Get me to the train on time here take this nickel make a dime
Take this penny and make it into a necklace when I leave
What is at the other end, an I don't know another friend
Another wife another morning spent
Listen, listen to the auctioneer
Another engine, another engine

We never wrote the reasons that I need explained
Some things are givens, and others get away
This time its for myself you call it what you will
Okay, we won't say goodbye so long, so much more
Listen to the auctioneer
Another engine, another engine

Listen to the bargain holler
Listen to the barter holler
Listen to the auctioneer

Get me to the train on time here take this nickel make a dime
Take this penny and make it into a necklace when I leave
What is at the other end, an I don't know another friend
Another wife another morning spent
Listen to the auctioneer
Another engine, another engine

GOOD ADVICES

When you greet a stranger look at her shoes
Keep your money in your shoes put your trouble behind
When you greet a stranger look at her hands
Keep your money in your hands put your travel behind
Who are you going to call for, what do you have to say
Keep your hat on your head home is a long way away
At the end of the day, I'll forget your name
I'd like it here if I could leave and see you from a long way away

When you greet a stranger, look at her shoes
Keep you memories in your shoes, put your travel behind
Who are you going to call for, what do you have to say
Keep your hat on your head
Home is a long way away
At the end of the day, when there are no friends
When there are no lovers, who are you going to call for
What do you have to change

A familiar face a boring place I forget your name
I'd like it here if I could leave and see you from a long way away
Who are you going to call for, what do you have to say
Keep your hat on your head
Home is a long way away

WENDELL GEE

That's when Wendell Gee takes a tug
Upon the string that held the line of trees
Behind the house he lived in
He was reared to give respect
But somewhere down the line he chose
To whistle as the wind blows
Whistle as the wind blows through the leaves

He had a dream one night
That the tree had lost its middle
So he built a trunk of chicken wire
To try to hold it up but the wire the wire turned to lizard skin
And when he climbed it sagged
There wasn't even time to say
Goodbye to Wendell Gee
So whistle as the wind blows
Whistle as the wind blows through the leaves

If the wind were colors
And if the air could speak
Then whistle as the wind blows
Whistle as the wind blows

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Lifes Rich Pageant
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BEGIN THE BEGIN

A birdy and a hand for life's rich demand
The insurgency began and you missed it
I looked for it and I found it
Miles Standish proud congratulate me
The philanderers tied the murderer's shoes  (???)

Life's rich demand creates supply in the hand
Of the powers the only book that matters
Silence means security silence means approval
We have Zenith on the TV tiger run around the tree
Follow the leader run the churn into butter

Let's begin again begin the begin
Let's begin again like Martin Luther Zen
The mythology begins the begin
Answer me a question I can't itemize
I can't think clearly look to me for reason
It's not there I can't even rhyme begin the begin
Example the finest example is you

Let's begin again begin the begin
Let's begin again

THESE DAYS

Now I'm not feeding off you I will rearrange your scales
If I can and I can
Marching the ocean marching to the sea

I had a hat I put it down into some preach down
Picked it up slapped it on my head
All the people gather
Carry each his burden
We are young despite the years we are concern
We are hope despite the times
Settle on these days
Happy throngs take this joy wherever, wherever....

I wish to meet each one of you
And you meet you if I can and I can
We have many things in common name three

Now I'm not feeding off you I will rearrange your scales
If I can and I can
I wish to meet each one of you and you me you

FALL ON ME (mostly from the video, of course)

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
A way to talk around the problem
Building towered foresight isn't anything at all
Buy the sky and sell the sky and bleed the sky and tell the sky

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 home

Buy the sky and sell the sky and lift your arms up to the sky
And ask the sky and ask the sky

CUYAHOGA

Let's put our heads together and start a new country up
Our father's father's father tried and erased the parts he didn't like
Let's try to fill it in bank the quarry river swim
We knee-skinned it you and me, we knee-skinned that river red

This is where we walked this is where we swam
Take a picture here take a souvenir

This land is the land of ours this river runs red over it
We knee-skinned it you and me, we knee-skinned that river red
And we gathered up our friends bank the quarry river swim
We knee skinned it you and me underneath the river bed

This is where we walked this is where we swam
Take a picture here take a souvenir
Cuyahoga
Cuyahoga it's gone

This land is the land of ours this river runs red over it
Underneath the river bed we burned the river down
This is where they walked swam hunted danced sang
Take a picture here take a souvenir
Cuyahoga
Cuyahoga it's gone

Rewrite the book remove the pages saving face secured in faith
Bury burn the waste behind you

This land is the land of ours this river runs red over it
We are not your allies, we can not defend
This is where they walked this is where they swam
Take a picture here take a souvenir

Cuyahoga
Cuyahoga it's gone

HYENA

Night time fell like the opening
In the final act of the beginning of time
Hyena take you stage is set up
The town is safe again tonight

Hyena hyena hyena

Hyena sister look to your hand
Many serve communal interest
So tell you when and where and how and why you'd hurt
A beautiful young lady

The only thing to fear is fearlessness
The bigger the weapon the greater the fear
Hyena is ambassador to here

Night time fell like the closing
Meager fame of recognition
Hyena crawls on his back
The town is safe again tonight

UNDERNEATH THE BUNKER

I will hide and you will hide
And we shall hide together again
Underneath the bunker in the night

I have water I have rum
Waiting for cold and dark shall come
Underneath the bunker in the night

THE FLOWERS OF GUATEMALA

I took a picture that I'll have to send
People here are friendly and content
People here are colorful and bright
The flowers often bloom at night

Amanita is the name
The flowers cover everything
The flowers cover everything

There's something here I find hard to ignore
There's something that I've never seen before
Amanita is the name they cover over everything

The flowers cover everything
They cover over everything (Amanita is the name)
The flowers cover everything

Don't look into the sun
Don't look into the sun

There's something that I've never seen before
The flowers often bloom at night
Amanita is the name they cover over everything

I BELIEVE

When I was young and full of grace
And spirit hid a rattlesnake
When I was young and fever fell
My spirit I will not tell
You're on your honor not to tell

I believe in coyotes and time as an abstract
Explain the change the difference between
What you want and what you need there's the key
Your adventure for today what do you do
Between the horns of the day

I believe my shirt is wearing thin
And change is what I believe in

When I was young and give and take
And foolish said my fool awake
When I was young and fever fell
My spirit I will not tell
You're on your honor on your honor

Trust in your calling make sure your calling's true
Think of others the others think of you
Silly rule golden words make practice practice makes perfect
Perfect is a fault and fault lines change

I believe my humor's wearing thin
And change is what I believe in

I believe my shirt is wearing thin
And change is what I believe in

When I was young and full of grace
And spirit hid a rattlesnake
When I was young and fever fell
My spirit I will not tell
You're on your honor not to tell
I believe in example
I believe my throat hurts
Example is the checker to the key

I believe my humor's wearing thin
And I believe the holds are slipping

I believe my shirt is wearing thin
And change is what I believe in

WHAT IF WE GIVE IT AWAY?

On the outside underneath the wall
All the money couldn't buy
You're mistaken no one's standing there
For the record no one tried

Oh I try to
What if we give it away?

Overlooking with a hollow eye
What's pretending is it right
Eye for order a hand for what's in line
Couldn't follow couldn't write

And our life does fine here
Stitch it on your tie here

Here's the trailer Tom
A year has come and gone
We're not moving was it right
Take the order sew it on your tie
We couldn't follow couldn't try

JUST A TOUCH

Well what in the world?  Women in black
Don't you remember send us back
A day in the life well nobody laughed
Counting the days how long can this last

Come and hear it on the radio
You won't word of mouth
I read it in the news
Caught it all just a touch

You set the pace of what was to come
I have to carry on now that you're gone
A day in the life well nobody laughed
Counting the days how long can this last

There's someone in our dreams
In our preassembled dream

Well what in the world?  Women in black
Don't you remember send us back
A day in the life well nobody laughed
Counting the days how long can this last

SWAN SWAN H

Swan swan hummingbird
Hurrah we are all free now
What noisy cats are we
Girl and dog he bore his cross
A long low time ago people talk to me

Johnny Reb what's the price of pans
Forty a piece or three for one dollar
Hey captain don't you want to buy
Some bone chains and toothpicks

Night weaves her hair chains
Years you wouldn't bring back sing
Wooden beams and dove tails sweep
I struck that picture ninety times
I walked that path a hundred ninety
Long low time ago people talk to me

A pistol hot cup of rhyme
The whiskey is water the water is wine
Marching feet Johnny Reb what's the price of heroes

Six and one half dozen the other
Tell that to the captain's mother
Hey captain don't you want to buy
Some bone chains and toothpicks

Night weaves her hair chains
Swan swan hummingbird
Hurrah we are all free now
What noisy cats are we
Long low time ago people talk to me
A pistol hot cup of rhyme
The whiskey is water the water is wine

SUPERMAN (The Clique)

I am I am I am Superman and I know what's happening
I am I am I am Superman and I can do anything

You don't really love that guy you make it with now do you
I know you don't love that guy cause I can see right through you

If you go a million miles away I'll track you down girl
Trust me when I say I know the pathway to your heart

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Dead Letter Office
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CRAZY (Pylon)

The sun

You're funny and you don't know why
You're funny and you can't even cry
You're funny and you don't know why
You're funny and you don't even try

Cause your head's shaking cause your arms are shaking
And your feet are shaking cause the earth is shaking

You're hungry and you don't know why
You're hungry and you can't even cry
You're hungry and you don't know why
You're hungry and you don't even cry

You take a walk and you try to understand
Nothing can hurt you
Unless you want it to
There are no answers
Many reasons to be strong
You take a walk you take a walk
You take a walk and you try to understand

You're in love and you don't know why
You're in love and you can't even cry
You're in love and you don't know why
You're in love and you don't even try

THERE SHE GOES AGAIN (The Velvet Underground)

There she goes again
She's out on the street again
She's down on her knees my friend
Won't have to ask her please again

Look a little closer there's no tears in her eyes
You know she won't make it with just any guy
What can you do
See her walking down the street
With all your friends she's gonna meet
You'd better hit her

BURNING DOWN

>From the back of my neck
Wired a glass jaw
Plantation burning your boat is coming in
Strum the juice off your weakened chin

Running water on a sinking boat
Going under but they've got your coat
Burning down - my hands are tied my feet are bound
Burning down - can't you see that my hands are bound

Johnny Mike is reading in the yard
History's timing
What river is it anyway radio
Not any boat in your ears

You pick your island in the sun
Take your island off he's got a gun
Burning down - my hands are tied my feet are bound
Burning down - can't you see that my hands are bound

He's cooking in the woods a brush fire in your neck
Feeling mighty mighty
You can pick your island in the sun
Take your island off he's got a gun

VOICE OF HAROLD

Reverend Bill ___ "He Cared That Much For Me".
Charles Surad introduces his own composition
"On Calvary Forming the Joy of Knowing Jesus"
Is a song of pure delight featuring John Barber.
The pure tenor quality of the voice of Harold
Montgomery gives a special interpretation to the grand
Old hymn "The Old Rugged Cross".
Chill bumps appear and I am frozen in the web they weave
As they reveal their innermost selves
With the outpouring of their hearts.
On and on the songs roll on and soon you are caught up
In the sermon, each rendition.  As you come to feel
The devotion and dedication that is poured forth,
Suddenly you know they're real, they mean it.
"Let Your Light Shine" could not be more aptly dubbed.
Mike Hazzard shines a light from heaven on your heart
Through their singing.  As an artist, Rhonda Montgomery
Exemplifies piano artistry.  That's Rhonda, an artist.
This album can be the instrument to mend a broken heart
Or to straighten out your life, through the sincere testimony in
The songs of the Revelaires.  A must.
Jay Elmer Fag, founder and leader of The Blue Ridge Quartet
For 23 years from Temple Records LST 390
Planned to make a record.
We are associated with the United Music World Recording Studios Incorporated
West Columbia, South Carolina...the finest sound available anywhere.
"The Joy of Knowing Jesus Proof" is by Joel Gentry.
Cover, back liner, design resource
The Revelaires, a must.
The Revelaires, a must in the home.

BURNING HELL

Women got legs men got pants
I got the picnic you got the ants
Put it in the fire heaven knows
Take my torch and touch your toes in hell
It's a burning hell

You burn in Hell
They can burn in hell
You can burn in hell
It's a burning hell

Women don't fret boys don't bet
Let me see your silhouette in hell
Women above me take my love
Love, love, love, love, love, love, love

It's a burning hell
It's a burning hell
Baby, baby, baby, I'm hell
It's a burning hell

Girl stop moving boy behave
Baby, I'll put you in an early grave in hell
Love on the ceiling love on the floor
I'm gonna leave you burning for more
Burn in the country, burn downtown
All the best people are burning down in hell, hell, hell

It's a burning Hell
You'll burn in hell
It's a big, burning, giant, colossal matter
Hell
Oh baby, I'm hell

WHITE TORNADO

(instrmental)

TOYS IN THE ATTIC (Aerosmith)

Light voices scream nothing seems real's a dream
Leaving the things that you learned behind
Leaving the things that you love behind
All of the things that you learned were real
Nothing except for the years
Voices scream, nothing seems real's a dream
Toys toys toys in the attic

Light voices scream nothing seems real's a dream
Leaving the things that you love behind
Leaving the things that you learned behind
All of the things that you learned were real
Nothing except for the years
Voices scream, nothing seems real's a dream
Toys toys toys in the attic

WINDOUT

Windout - when you're out of the wind
Windout - when you're really spent
Windout - if you're young and red

Tick tock it's ten o'clock
Why don't you spend the night
Could you really go

So find out - if you're really spent
Find out - if you're out of the wind
Windout - if you're out on the bend

Winding up

There's no doubt - that you're feeling fine
No doubt - that you're out of your mind
No doubt - that you're young and red

Windout - if you're really spent
Find out - if you're young and red
Windout - if you're out on the bend
If you're young and red

Tick tock trying to _____
Why don't you spend the night
Could you really go

Windout, find out, no doubt
Windout, find out, no doubt
Windout, windout, windout

AGES OF YOU

Postcard stowaway within
Pristine indigo without
If a lighter man is such
Sofa seated one too much

All along the range all along the range
Ages of you

Train pulls over hanging bridge
Conductor looks up thinks
Out and down hands stuck to the left
To the right crucial farm
The horses aren't just gossip anymore

PALE BLUE EYES (The Velvet Underground)

Sometimes I feel so happy
Sometimes I feel so sad
Sometimes I feel just about everything
Lately I'm just feeling bad
Lately I'm just feeling bad

Linger on your pale blue eyes

I thought of you as my mountain top
I thought of you as my peak
I thought of you as just about everything
I had but couldn't keep
I had but couldn't keep

ROTARY TEN

(instrumental)

BANDWAGON

Come on aboard I promise you you won't hurt the horse
We treat him well, we feed him well
There's lots of room for you on the bandwagon
The road may be rough the weather may forget us
But won't we all parade around and sing our songs
The Magic Kingdom open arms

Greet us hello, bravo, name in lights
Passing on the word fellow passengers and players, passing in
Until you're tired looking at all the flags
And all the banners waving
This is some parade yesiree Bob
Could you have known
Yesiree Bob, could you have known?

Look at all the flags and all the banners waving
Open up our arms the Magic Kingdom open arms to greet us all

FEMME FATALE (The Velvet Underground)

Here she comes you better watch your step
She's going to play you for a fool it's true
It's not hard to realize
Just look into her false colored eyes
She'll build you up just to put you down
What a clown

Cause everybody knows the things she does to please
She's just a little tease
See the way she walks hear the way she talks

You're written in her book
You're number thirty-seven have a look
She's going to play you for a fool it's true
Little boy on the street
Before you start you're already beat
She's going to smile to make you from
What a clown

Cause everybody knows (She's a femme fatale)
the things she does to please (She's a femme fatale)
She's just a little tease (She's a femme fatale)
See the way she walks hear the way she talks

WALTER'S THEME

Hey this is David
I've got a hat the size of Oklahoma
Put on my boots and going down to Walter's
Good tasting barbecue
Bring some home to the misses
They'll give you a bag to put it in
This is David, signing off

KING OF THE ROAD (Roger Miller)

Trailers for sale or rent
Trailers for sale or rent
Rooms to rent, fifty cents
No cars no pool no pets
I ain't got no cigarettes
It takes four hours of pushing a broom
To buy a four by twelve two bit room
I'm a man of men, by no means
King of the road