R.E.M. - New Adventures In Hi-Fi Album Lyrics
R.E.M. Lyrics
New Adventures In Hi-Fi Lyrics
- How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us
- The Wake-Up Bomb
- New Test Leper
- Undertow
- E-Bow The Letter
- Leave
- Departure
- Bittersweet Me
- Be Mine
- Binky The Doormat
- Zither
- So Fast, So Numb
- Low Desert
- Electrolite
How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us Lyrics
Blood from a stone The story is a sad one, told many times. Canary got trapped, the uranium mine. The story is a sad one, told many times. I didnt wear glasses cause I thought it might rain. The story is a sad one, told many times.
I look good in a glass pack My heads on fire in high esteem I had to knock a few buildings over Oh, the wake-up bomb Ive had enough, Ive seen enough, Ive had it all, Im giving up Yeah, atomic, Supersonic My heads on fire in high esteem
I cant say that I love Jesus Call me a leper "You are lost and disillusioned" Call me a leper When I tried to tell my story What a sad parade Call me a leper
I know what I wanted You go down to the water This is not my time, brother Im drowning Brother can you see those birds? They go down to the water This is not my time, sister Im drowning You know I am tired I cant say Im fearful I dont need a heaven I am breathing water Im drowning
Look up, what do you see? The bus ride, I went to write this, 4:00 a.m. I wore it like a badge of teenage film stars Ill take you over, there Ill take you over Will you live to 83? I dont want to disappoint you Ill take you over, there Ill take you over Look up, what do you see? I cant look it in the eyes Ill take you over, there Ill take you over Pulls us near Nearer, nearer
Nothing could be bring me closer. Its under, under, under my feet. Thats what keeps me, Shifting the dream I know it well, ugly and sweet Thats what keeps me Thats what keeps me, Lift me, lift me, Thats what keeps me, Thats what keeps me, Midnight hands, my eyes are still Longed for this to take me, Leave, leave.
Just arrived Singapore, San Sebastian, Spain, 26-hour trip. Here it comes (Im carried away) Departure, Godspeed, bless his heart, good boy. Here it comes (Im carried away) Go, go, go, go, yeah. Well, everybody is young forever. Here it comes (Im carried away)
I move across, innocence lost "Youre so bitter," your complaint Id sooner chew my leg off, I cant taste it I move across, candy floss Oh my peer, Id sooner chew my leg off, I couldnt taste it. You move across, innocence lost, You strip down and lay yourself out, Id sooner chew my leg off, I couldnt taste it
I never thought of this as funny Ill strip the world that you must live in And if I choose your sanctuary. Ill reap the lotus and the pyote. And if you made me your religion.
This is horror movie stuff. have you lost your place? If Im your oyster, wheres the war? Have you lost your place? Call your bathroom friends around. have you lost your place?
(instrumental)
Movin through rough waters motel boy, Anyone could scratch your surface now, You say that you hate it Youre drinking the wrong dream now baby, You say that you hate it. You love it. You hate it. You love it. You hate it. Ive played this round, Ive played your lover. you played around, you played me lover,
It happened fast, its over quick. An eyelash or a little bit of sleep? Time stands still. All the ashtrays, cities and the freeway drives Jet stream cuts the desert sky. Theres a radio tower thats egging me on
Your eyes are burning holes through me. Twentieth century go and sleep. You are the star tonight. If I ever want to fly. Hollywood is under me. You are the star tonight. If you want to fly. You are the star tonight. Twentieth century go and sleep. Youre eyes are burnin holes through me.
Water from wine.
Born under earplay design.
A
stroke of bad luck,
wrong place, wrong time.
This flyer is out of the
lime.
The story of my life in trying
times.
Just add water, stir in lime.
How the west was won and where it got
us.
A stroke of bad luck, now the bird
has died.
A marker to mark where my tears run dry.
I cross it, bless it,
alkali.
The story of my life in trying
times.
Just add water, stir in lime.
How the west was won and where it got
us.
Now I cant see
anything.
I made a mistake, chalked it up to design.
I cracked through
time, space, Godless and dry.
I point my nose to the northern star,
Watch
the decline from a hazy distance.
The story of my life in trying
times.
Just add water, stir in lime.
How the west was won and where it got
us.
The Wake-Up Bomb Lyrics
I look good and mean
I look good in
metallic sick wraparounds blackout tease
I scud along the horizon
I drink
some sweet tree tea
I get high in my low-ass boot cut cheap
I like being
seen
I look good with my drink eat no sleep
Take a leap, longevity
I
get high on my attitude, latitude, 1973
Im in deep
Carry my dead, bored, been there, done
that, anything
Oh, the wake-up bomb
Oh, the wake-up bomb
Oh, the
wake-up bomb
Oh, the wake-up bomb
My heads on fire in high esteem
Get
drunk and sing along to Queen
Practice my T-Rex moves and make the
scene
Carry my dead, bored, been there, done that, anything
I make an ugly mess
I had to blow a
gasket, drop transmission
I had to decompress
I had to write the great
American novel
I had a neutron bomb
I had to teach the world to sing by
the age of 21
I wake up (I wake up)
I wake up (I wake up)
I threw up
when I saw what Id done
Oh, the wake-up bomb
My heads on fire in high
esteem
Get drunk and sing along to Queen
Practice my T-Rex moves and make
the scene
Yeah, Id rather be anywhere doing anything
I won
the race, I broke the cup, I drank it all, I spit it up
Again
Ive had
enough, Ive seen enough, Ive had it all, Im giving up
I won the race, I
broke the cup, I drank it all, I spit it up
What a joke, Im dumb
See ya, dont wanna be
ya
Lunch meat, Pond scum
Get drunk and sing along to
Queen
Practice my T-Rex moves and make the scene
Yeah, Id rather be
anywhere doing anything
Yeah, Id rather be anywhere doing anything
Yeah,
Id rather be anywhere doing anything
New Test Leper Lyrics
That would be a hollow claim.
He did make
some observations
And Im quoting them today.
"Judge not lest ye be
judged."
What a beautiful refrain.
The studio audience disagrees.
Have
his lambs all gone astray?
Call me a leper
Call me a leper
What an awful thing to say.
I know
this show doesnt flatter.
It means nothing to me.
I thought I might help
them understand
But what an ugly thing to see.
"I am not an
animal"
Subtitled under the screen.
Call me a leper
Call me a leper
They cut me off to take a break.
I sat
silent 5 commercials
I had nothing left to say
The talk show host was
index-carded
All organized and blank
The other guests were scared and
hardened
What a sad parade.
Call me a leper
Call me a leper
Undertow Lyrics
I know what I wanted
I know how I wanted this to
be
Drink down of the water
Walk up off the water,
leave it be
It is cold in heaven
And Im not sprouting
wings.
Me
Im drowning
Me, yeah
They dont look to heaven
They dont
need religion, they can see
Drink down on the water
Fly up off the water,
leave it be
It is cold in heaven
And no ones coming
after me
Breathing ourselves
Me
Breathing ourselves
Im
drowning
Breathing ourselves
Me, yeah
Cold and bony tired
Nothings gonna save me, I can
see
I cant say Im not afraid
But I am not
resisting, I can see
I dont need religion
I am in the place where I
should be
I am breathing water
You know a bodys got to
breathe
Breathing ourselves
Me
Breathing ourselves
Im
drowning
Breathing ourselves
Me, yeah
E-Bow The Letter Lyrics
All of you and all of me
Fluorescent and
starry
Some of them, they surprise
This letter
Fields of
poppies, little pearls
All the boys and all the girls sweet-toothed
Each
and every one a little scary
I said your name
Hash bars, cherry mash and
tinfoil tiaras
Dreaming of Maria Callas
Whoever she is
This fame thing,
I dont get it
I wrap my hand in plastic to try to look through
it
Maybelline eyes and girl-as-boy moves
I can take you far
This star
thing, I dont get it
Ill take you over, there
Aluminum, tastes
like fear
Adrenaline, it pulls us near
It tastes like fear, there
Ill take you over
Will you ever welcome me?
Will you show me
something that nobody else has seen?
Smoke it, drink
Here comes the
flood
Anything to thin the blood
These corrosives do their magic slowly
and sweet
Phone, eat it, drink
Just another chink
Cuts and dents, they
catch the light
Aluminum, the weakest link
Im not here to anoint you
I would lick
your feet
But is that the sickest move?
I wear my own crown and sadness
and sorrow
And whod have thought tomorrow could be so strange?
My loss,
and here we go again
Ill take you over, there
Aluminum, tastes
like fear
Adrenaline, it pulls us near
It tastes like fear, there
Ill take you over
All of you and all of me
Fluorescent and
starry
Some of them, they surprise
Seconal, Spanish fly, absinthe,
kerosene
Cherry-flavored neck and collar
I can smell the sorrow on your
breath
The sweat, the victory and sorrow
The smell of fear, I got it
Ill take you over, there
Aluminum, tastes
like fear
Adrenaline, it pulls us near
It tastes like fear, there
Ill take you over
Tastes like fear.
Over, over, over, over
Yeah, look over
Ill take you
there, oh, yeah
Ill take you there
Oh, over
Ill take you
there
Over, let me
Ill take you there..
There, there, baby, yeah
Leave Lyrics
Nothing could be bring me near.
Where
is the road I follow?
Believing, leave.
The scene spread out there before
me.
Better I go where the land touches sea.
There is my trust in what I
believe.
Thats what keeps me,
Thats what keeps me
down,
To leave it, believe it,
Leave it all behind.
Nothing could bring me further from my old friend
time
Shifting the dream
Charging the scene
I know where I marked the
signs
Suffer the dreams of a world gone mad
I like it like that and I know
it
A temper man who said believe in his
dream.
Thats what keeps me
Thats what keeps me
down
I sent it on an airline plane
I sent it off in an airplane
That
never left the ground.
Thats what keeps me,
Thats what keeps me
down,
To leave it, believe it.
Leave it all behind.
I attain my dream.
I lost myself, I lost
them.
heartache calling me.
I lost myself in sorrow
I lost myself in
pain.
I lost myself in gravity,
Memory, leave, leave.
Thats what keeps me,
Thats what keeps me
down,
To leave it, believe it,
Leave it all behind.
Thats what keeps me,
Thats what keeps me
down,
To leave it, believe it,
Leave it all behind.
I walk into the scene
Shoot myself in
a different place
Leavin
Longed for my release
Waited for the
coming
Leavin, leave.
Leavin, leavin
Departure Lyrics
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 (Im carried away)
Here
it comes, back, back.
What a f*ck-up, what a
fighter.
A free-fall, motorcycle, hang-glider,
Hung on the line like a
poison spider.
Win a eulogy from William Greider,
Car crash, ptomaine,
disposable lighter,
A bus plunge, avalanche, a vinegar cider.
Free-fall,
motorcycle, hang-glider.
Here it comes (Im carried away)
Here
it comes, back, back.
Theres so much to tell you, so little
time.
Ive come a long way since the whatever,
shit, I still see a word,
think of you.
There is so much that I cant do, yeah.
You will be young
forever.
Theres so much that I cant do.
There is so much that I cant
do.
Here it comes (Im carried away)
Here
it comes, back, back.
Bittersweet Me Lyrics
All flashing pulsar
I move across the earth
in my new pattern shirt
I pass satellites
I cant get you anything.
I dont
know who youre livin for
I dont you at all anymore.
Than be trapped in this.
How easy you think
of all of this as bittersweet me
Im tired and naked.
I dont know what Im hungry
for
I dont know what I want anymore
I move like a tank
I move across the
room
With a heart full of gloom
Im stronger than you think.
Your veneer is wearing thin and cracking.
The surface and
forms underneath,
Underneath is lacking.
Than be trapped in this.
How easy you think
of all of this as bittersweet me
Im tired and naked.
I dont know what Im hungry
for.
I dont know what I want anymore.
All static and desire,
Youre blue in
the face from navel gaze,
You set yourself on fire.
I know you cant fake it,
But are
you tire and naked?
Are you tire and naked?
Than be trapped in this.
How easy you think
of all of this as bittersweet me
Im tired and naked.
I dont know what Im hungry
for.
I dont know what I want anymore.
Be Mine Lyrics
It speaks another world to me
I wanna
be your Easter bunny
I wanna be your Christmas tree.
of all its godforsaken
greed.
Ill ply the tar of your feathers.
Ill pluck the thorns out of
your feet.
You and me.
You and me.
You and me.
Ill want to wash you with my
hair.
Ill want to drink of sacred fountains
and find the riches hidden
there.
Ill want to hear the caged-bird
sing.
Ill want the secrets of the temple.
Ill want the finger with the
ring.
You and me.
You and me.
You and me.
Ill give all the room you need.
Ill
be the drawing of your breath.
Ill be carpet you should weave.
Ill be
the sky above the Ganges
Ill be the vast and stormy sea.
Ill be the
lights that guide you inland.
Ill be the visions you will see.
Visions
you will see.
You will see.
You will see.
You and me.
You and
me.
You and me.
Binky The Doormat Lyrics
The muffin is peach, youre makin
love.
You mean this opera involves handcuffs?
I lay defeated.
Yeah,
sour milk mouth, horseradish sweet.
Shes a girl and shes loving me.
But
distance is my tendency.
I am defeated.
I wore my doormat face.
I hung my this or
that.
I laid my welcome mat.
You leave me gasping, tattered and
torn.
I know you cant find a fork.
I am just a little acorn.
Well,
acorns grow to mighty trees.
Youve got sauce, but you dont have
knees.
Now look whos asking pretty please.
I lay defeated.
I wore my doormat face.
I hung my this or
that.
I laid my welcome mat.
I will fake a little frown.
I will
be your little clown,
Easily defeated.
Yeah, shut the door and open
wide.
Seconal and astroglide.
F*ck with me and traumatize.
Dont you
see I love your hide?
All the beauty thats trapped inside.
Cant you see
I love your hide?
Cant you see I love your hide?
Cant you see it?
I wore my doormat face.
I hung my this or
that.
I laid my welcome mat.
Zither Lyrics
So Fast, So Numb Lyrics
And swimming in your sleep.
How
could I be so blind, mis-sighted,
Not to see theres something wounded
deep.
Its all amphetamine
Youre
blasting yourself into the present
Learn some vast indignity, stay that,
You want to re-create it
Ive been around,
Ive been your lover.
I let it go at Kill Devil Hill,
Youre coming onto
something so fast, so numb
That you cant even feel.
You do-si-do, saddo
Youre
you in cartilage, shark-eyed, shock horror, all present tense,
And boy your
blood is running cold.
Listen, this is now, this is here, this is me,
This
is what I wanted you to see.
That was then, was that, that is gone, this is
past,
You cast yourself cast, passed by, gone down fast.
You want to recreate it.
Ive played this
round, Ive played your lover.
Ive played it out to the hilt.
Youre
comin on with something so fast, so numb
That you cant even feel.
You want to re-create it.
Now, this is here,
this is me.
This is what I wanted you to see.
That was then, was that,
that is gone.
That is what I wanted you to feel.
You spit it out, the bitter pill.
Ive been
around, Ive been your lover
I let it go at Kill Devil Hill.
Youre coming
onto something so fast, so numb
That you cant even feel.
Ive played it out to the
hilt.
Youre comin on with something so fast, so numb
That you cant even
feel.
I let it go at Kill Devil
Hill,
Youre moving so hard, so fast, so numb
That you cant even
feel.
Low Desert Lyrics
A little dust and the engine
kicks.
Did your hands drift down off the wheel?
Roll out, hit your
windshield
Just call it now
and youre on your way (hey, hey, hey)
Broken casino and
waterslides
Eighteen-wheeler, payback dice.
Gravity flows on the power
line.
This is a land could eat a man
alive.
Say youd leave it all behind.
Back to the place where you
never belong.
Where people thrive on their own contempt.
Whatever meaning
is long gone, spent.
If you had to guess or make bet,
Would you place
yourself inside of it?
The mountains yawn, the clouds let out a
sigh.
"Tricked again." Let go, okay.
Electrolite Lyrics
Im gasoline.
Im burnin
clean.
Youre plasticine.
That is
obscene.
That is obscene.
You shine electric outta sight.
You light
eclipsed the moon tonight.
Elecrolite. Youre outta sight.
Mulholland Drive.
I am alive.
Im Martin Sheen
Im Steve McQueen
Im Jimmy
Dean
You shine electric outta sight.
You light
eclipsed the moon tonight.
Elecrolite.
Youre outta sight.
Mulholland Drive.
Up in the sky.
Stand on a
cliff and look down there.
Dont be scared, you are alive.
You are
alive.
You shine electric outta sight.
You light
eclipsed the moon tonight.
Elecrolite.
Youre outta sight.
Really deep.
We wont blink
Im not scared
Im outta
here.
Im not scared.
Im outta here.