All the young kids learn to dance In the combat zone Never dare to take a chance You're going home alone Military metaphors Are metaphors no more Song: Body Count Album: Early R.E.M. Songs

I'm searching for a greatness I smear it on my face I want to bathe in grape must swim the length of the milky way I want it to be brilliant I want it to be sweet I want to kiss the astronauts when they salute to me me me me Song: Wanderlust Album: Around The Sun

you don't have to take the bar exam to see what you've done is ignoramus 103 what've I got to hang my hat on you don't have a pot to pee in all this just to be your friend I was there until the end. extortion and arson, petty larceny Song: Star 69 Album: Monster

you love it. you hate it. you want to re-create it. now this is here. this is me. this is what I wanted you to see. that was then. that was that. that is gone. that is what I wanted you to feel. Song: So Fast, So Numb Album: New Adventures In Hi-Fi

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, I want to take you on Song: Strange Currencies Album: Monster

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 Song: Time After Time (Annelise) Album: Reckoning

Hey this is David I've got a hat the size of Oklahoma Put on my boots and going down to Walter's Get me some barbecue Bring some home to the misses He'll give you a bag to put it in This is David, signing off Song: Walter's Theme Album: Dead Letter Office

Your feet are going to be on the ground Your head is there to move you around If wishes were trees the trees would be falling Listen to reason Season is calling Song: Stand Album: Green

I looked for you and everywhere. I looked for you and everywhere. tell me why you're here I came to disappear tell me why you're here I came to disappear I came to disappear Song: Disappear Album: Reveal

Hang your collar up inside Hang your dollar on me Listen to the water still Listen to the causeway you are mad and educated primitive and wild Welcome to the occupation Song: Welcome To The Occupation Album: Document

Dig a hole, dig it deeper, deeper! Climb a mountain, climb it steeper, steeper! Dig a hole! Dig it deeper, deeper! Track a trail of honey through it all Song: Mine Smell Like Honey Album: Collapse into Now

Hey, Hey, Nadine She's a good girl Hey, Hey, Nadine She's got me in a whirl Hey, Hey, Nadine She's such a pretty girl Song: Hey, Hey, Nadine Album: Early R.E.M. Songs

if I have a bag of rocks to carry as I go I just want to hold my head up high I don't care what I have to step over I'm prepared to look you in the eye look me in the eye and if you see familiarity then celebrate the contradiction help me when I fall to ... Song: Walk Unafraid Album: Up

Night wings, her hair chains, Here's your wooden greenback, sing Wooden beams and dovetail sweep I struck that picture ninety times, I walked that path a hundred ninety, Long, low time ago, people talk to me Song: Swan Swan H Album: Lifes Rich Pageant

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. Flags at his elbow, time to breath (That's my folly) I believe Song: Old Man Kensey Album: Fables Of The Reconstruction

Moon River, wider than a mile I'm crossing you in style some day You dream maker You heartbreaker Wherever you're going I'm going your way Song: Moon River Album: R.E.M. Cover Versions

Providence blinked, facing the sun Where are we left to carry on Until the day is done Until the day is done Song: Until the Day Is Done Album: Accelerate

Throw it on the fire Throw it in the air Kick it out on the dance-floor like you just don't care Look at what I've found Everybody look around Everybody looking like they just don't care Song: Man-Sized Wreath Album: Accelerate

And ever since then I've written the dude Dreaming of swimming around the coral reef I'd even bought my camera and my scuba gear If only Jacques had called to stop a career Song: Narrator Album: Early R.E.M. Songs

have you lost your place? i wore my doormat face. I hung my this or that. I laid my welcome mat. Song: Binky The Doormat Album: New Adventures In Hi-Fi

pleasure is melting like chocolate my blue ribbon gumption is gone all my gravy must have soaked into something and the world... the filthy steps, the cold concrete the phony earth below my feet the ancient odor of the streets ... Song: Sponge Album: R.E.M. Cover Versions

You're sharpening stones, walking on coals To improve your business acumen. Sharpening stones, walking on coals, To improve your business acumen. Song: Exhuming McCarthy Album: Document

I crossed your great divide I stirred your ocean's tide I called your bluff until I blew your circuits wide Song: I Took Your Name Album: Monster

Maybe the world is falling It wasn't strong enough Tell me you'll soon be crawling Into the Arms, into the arms of Love Song: Arms Of Love Album: R.E.M. Cover Versions

now is greater and she knows that Song: She Just Wants To Be Album: Reveal

If you close the door the night could last forever. Say goodbye to now and say hello to never. I've said it before, I'll say it again. You know it can happen to me. But if we close the door I'll never have to see the world again. Song: The After Hours Album: R.E.M. Cover Versions

I'd really like to live beside you, baby I love your body and your spirit and your clothes But you see that line there moving through the station I told you I told you I told you I was one of those Song: First We Take Manhattan Album: R.E.M. Cover Versions

Let your light so shine... could not be more aptly applied as there shines a light from heaven on your heart through their singing. As an artist, Rhonda Montgomery exemplifies piano artistry. That's Rhonda! An artist! Song: Voice Of Harold Album: Dead Letter Office

Mr. Richards, your decision. Pay attention, pay attention. Song: Mr. Richards Album: Accelerate

She's a (cherry?) now She put me on her She put you on trial No I'm in her_______ Song: Lisa Sez Album: Early R.E.M. Songs

Crazy crazy world crazy crazy times Crazy crazy world crazy crazy times Hang up your chairs to better sweep Clear the floor to dance Sweep the floor into the fireplace Song: Fireplace Album: Document

They scratch the scandals in the twilight She was laughing like a Horae Put that knee in dour landslide Take this step to dash a roving eye It's so much more attractive inside the moral kiosk Inside, cold, dark, fire, twilight Inside, cold, dark, fire, twilight Song: Moral Kiosk Album: Murmur

'Cos if heaven does exist with a kickin' playlist I don't want to miss it at the end of the world Song: I'm Gonna DJ Album: Accelerate

Oh... Song: All the Best Album: Collapse into Now

Put your hair back, we get to leave Eleven gallows on your sleeve Shallow figure, winner's paid Eleven shadows way out of place Standing too soon, shoulders high in the room Standing too soon, shoulders high in the room ... Song: Perfect Circle Album: Murmur

you love it. you hate it. you want to re-create it. now this is here. this is me. this is what I wanted you to see. that was then. that was that. that is gone. that is what I wanted you to feel. Song: So Fast, So Numb Album: New Adventures In Hi-Fi

hold on world 'cause you don't know what's coming hold on world 'cause I'm not jumping off hold onto this boy a little longer take another trip around the sun Song: Around the Sun Album: Around The Sun

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. Song: Everybody Hurts Album: Automatic For The People

They crowded up to Lenin with their noses worn off A handshake is worthy if it's all that you've got Metal shivs on wood push through our back There\'s a splinter in your eye and it reads "REACT" Song: Harborcoat Album: Reckoning

I know all about the warehouse fire I know squirrelys didn't chew the wires 3 people have my number the other 2 were with me. I don't like to tell-tell but I'm not your patsy. this time you have gone too far with me. Song: Star 69 Album: Monster

I can take it with me Leave you all behind Got some kind of feeling Burnin on my mind Song: Permanent Vacation Album: Early R.E.M. Songs

Hey Yeah (Hey Yeah) Hey Yeah (Hey Yeah) Hey Yeah (Hey Yeah) I know Song: Every Day Is Yours to Win Album: Collapse into Now

Windout - if you're out of wind Windout - if you're really spent Windout - if you're young and red Song: Windout Album: Dead Letter Office

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 acquitted ... Song: Revolution Album: Other (Non-Album) R.E.M. Lyrics

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 Song: Losing My Religion Album: Out Of Time

There's something going on that wasn't here before Keep your eyes glued to the floor There's something strange going on tonight There's something going on that's not quite right Song: Strange Album: Document

I would give my life to find it I would give it all Catch me if I fall All alone Waiting to fall Song: Texarkana Album: Out Of Time

Mmmm...You're so pretty Not to talk to you would be a crime Let me put my arms around you Just wanna use up a little of your time Song: Baby Baby Album: R.E.M. Cover Versions

Did you never call? I waited for your call These rivers of suggestion are driving me away The ocean sang, the conversation's dimmed Go build yourself another dream, this choice isn't mine Song: So. Central Rain Album: Reckoning

I walked with a Zombie. I walked with a Zombie. I walked with a Zombie last night. Song: I Walked With A Zombie Album: R.E.M. Cover Versions