If the storm doesn't kill me the government will I've got to get that out of my head It's a new day today and the coffee is strong I've finally got some rest Song: Houston Album: Accelerate

[I try to walk like a big wham bam I try to float like a telegram sam I came across like a battering ram I'm trying to divine you. ] Song: The Ascent of Man Album: Around The Sun

And I'm going... Baby baby baby Baby baby baby Baby baby baby Won't you be my girl? Song: Baby Baby Album: R.E.M. Cover Versions

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

she just wants to be somewhere she just wants to be she just wants to be somewhere she just wants to be. Song: She Just Wants To Be Album: Reveal

This lonely deep sit hollow I'm half a world Half the world away My shoes are gone My life spent I had too much to drink I didn't think and I I didn't think of you I guess that's all I needed To go it alone And hold it along Haul it along ... Song: Half A World Away Album: Out Of Time

Not everyone can carry the weight of the world Not everyone can carry the weight of the world Combien, combien, combien du temps? Song: Talk About The Passion Album: Murmur

You can say what you want but she's SHEHERAZADE And you don't mind And you call when she calls You pay the price You're bound to fall And all the lies don't matter at all Song: Sheherazade Album: Early R.E.M. Songs

While I'm nothing but confused (confused) with nothing left to lose (lose) and if you buy that I've got a bridge for you Song: Every Day Is Yours to Win Album: Collapse into Now

Remember the vodka espresso night of discovery, Remember that? Laughing! Discovery! Oh how I look back and reflect How I felt it, how it set. I don't have to feel so wrong Now I wake up dreaming saffron, turmeric and brass Song: Discoverer Album: Collapse into Now

They shifted the statues for harboring ghosts Reddened their necks, collared their clothes Then we ditched the books with the middles cut out She gathered the corners and called it her gown Song: Harborcoat Album: Reckoning

Got to punch Right on target Twisting tongues Gotta stripe down his back all nine yards down her back Song: 9-9 Album: Murmur

That's what keeps me, that's what keeps me, that's what keeps me down, to leave, believe it, leave it all behind. Song: Leave Album: New Adventures In Hi-Fi

the fool might be my middle name But I'd be foolish not to say I'm going to make whatever it takes, ring you up, call you down, sign your name, secret love, make it rhyme, take you in, and make you mine. Song: Strange Currencies Album: Monster

heartfelt obligation, a place that you called home and heard your voice again, but it's too late. You left long ago, and now you're probably dead and gone, and I'm left here with the water and the shoals and a tainted obligation. ... Song: Tainted Obligation Album: Other (Non-Album) R.E.M. Lyrics

Ask the girl of the hour by the water tower's watch If your friends took a fall, are you obligated to follow Song: Time After Time (Annelise) Album: Reckoning

In the jungle, the quiet jungle, the lion sleeps tonight In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight Song: The Lion Sleeps Tonight Album: R.E.M. Cover Versions

Stay off that highway, word is it's not so safe The grasses that hide the greenback The amber waves of gain again The amber waves of gain Song: Green Grow The Rushes Album: Fables Of The Reconstruction

Listen to the bargain holler Listen to the barter holler Listen to the auctioneer Song: Auctioneer (Another Engine) Album: Fables Of The Reconstruction

The story is a sad one, told many times. the story of my life in trying times. just add water, stir in lime. how the west was won and where it got us. ahhhh. Song: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us Album: New Adventures In Hi-Fi

I'm not that easy, I am not your horse to water. I hold my breath I come around, round, round. Song: Horse to Water Album: Accelerate

Maybe tonight you're cryin Like a poor wounded dove Tell me you'll soon be flying Into the Arms, into the arms of love Song: Arms Of Love Album: R.E.M. Cover Versions

And it's a mystery to me And it's a mystery to me Song: Mystery To Me Album: Early R.E.M. Songs

it happened fast, it's over quick. a little dust and the engine kicks. did your hands drift down off the wheel? a roadowl hit your windshield? an eyelash or a little bit of sleep? did time stand still? Just call it. now, and you're on your way. Song: Low Desert Album: New Adventures In Hi-Fi

the rodeo is staged, gold circle goat-ropers and clowns. a rumble in the third act, tie 'em up and burn 'em down. we're armed to the teeth, born a little breech; blue-plate special analysts, cells and SUV's Song: I Wanted To Be Wrong Album: Around The Sun

this conceit, these systems of belief, your counselor agrees, you've always marked these boundaries, now\r\nyou're free... and with relief. Song: The Lifting Album: Reveal

I'm drowning, me. I'm drowning, me. Song: Undertow Album: New Adventures In Hi-Fi

if you just can speak to me just throw me a line give me just a little nod you are fascinating I could serenade Song: Falls To Climb Album: Up

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

You are lost and disillusioned! what an awful thing to say. I know this show doesn't 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. Song: New Test Leper Album: New Adventures In Hi-Fi

So this is where you trust me And this where it begins It's all a lot less frightening Your tear you let it in Tyrel and his mechanical owl A moth disguised as a leaf... Don't tell me what tomorrow brings Climb into the hidden machine and ... Song: Sing for the Submarine Album: Accelerate

I found this photograph, underneath the broken picture glass. Tender face of black and white, Beautiful, a haunting sight. Looked into an angel's smile, captivated all the while. From the hair and clothes she wore, ... Song: Photograph Album: Other (Non-Album) R.E.M. Lyrics

it's not that she walked away, her world got smaller. all the usual places, the same destinations, only something's changed. Song: She Just Wants To Be Album: Reveal

I am the passenger yeah I ride and I ride I ride through the city's backside I ride through the city at night and everything is yours and mine and everything is yours and mine and everything is yours and mine tonight. Song: Passenger Album: R.E.M. Cover Versions

Mott the Hoople and the game of Life. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Andy Kaufman in the wrestling match. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Monopoly, Twenty one, checkers, and chess. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. ... Song: Man On The Moon Album: Automatic For The People

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 said I'm not supposed to be like this Let's try to find a happy game to play Let's try to find a happy game to play I'm not supposed to be like this But it's okay...okay Song: The Wrong Child Album: Green

Check it out What are you saying What are you playing Who are you obeying day out day in? Baby baby baby That stuff is driving me crazy DJs communicate to the masses Sex and violent classes Now our children grow up prisoners ... Song: Radio Song Album: Out Of Time

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

Night time fell at the opening, In the final act of the beginning of time. Hyena take your role, the stage is set. The town is safe again tonight Song: Hyena Album: Lifes Rich Pageant

Ghostrider Ghostrider Ghostrider Song: Ghost Rider Album: R.E.M. Cover Versions

Dusk is dawn is day Where did it go? I've been laughing Fast and slow Moving in a still frame Howling at the moon Morning found me laughing Up and down, down Low low low Night suits me fine and morning suits me fine I've been so happy Way up high, high ... Song: Low Album: Out Of Time

But when you're not there other guys come sticking around And when you ask her what's going on She'll only push you around Put you down Song: Sheherazade Album: Early R.E.M. Songs

I don't want to disappoint you. I'm not here to annoint you. I would lick your feet but is that the sickest move, I wear my own crown, and sadness, and sorrow, and who'd of thought tomorrow could be so strange? ... Song: E-Bow The Letter Album: New Adventures In Hi-Fi

that's when the calibration brittle as a stick gets you the gold ring and the tar museum che guevera wink, gold ring gold ring. Song: Chorus & The Ring Album: Reveal

In the village, the quiet village, the lion sleeps tonight In the village, the peaceful village, the lion sleeps tonight Song: The Lion Sleeps Tonight Album: R.E.M. Cover Versions

Oddfellows local 151 behind the firehouse Where Peewee sits upon the wall to preach. This boy and girl that gather pearls Of wisdom falling from his mouth Wash off the blood, wash off the 151. Song: Oddfellows Local 151 Album: Document

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 Song: The Outsiders Album: Around The Sun

Finger _______, crime to ________ Thirsting for us too, three's a _____ Song: That Beat Album: Early R.E.M. Songs

From the back of my neck, oh oh oh Wired a glass jaw, oh oh Plantation burning your boat is coming in Strum your jew's-harp, you're reeking gin Song: Burning Down Album: Dead Letter Office