It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

Song It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Artist R.E.M.
Album Document (The I.R.S. Years Vintage 1987)

Lyrics

[00:03.22] That's great, it starts with an earthquake
[00:06.63] Birds and snakes, an aeroplane
[00:08.83] And Lenny Bruce is not afraid
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[00:12.43] Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn
[00:14.63] World serves its own needs, don't miserve your own needs
[00:17.05] speed it up a notch, speak, grunt, no strength
[00:18.96] The ladder start to clatter with fear of height, down height
[00:21.95] Wire in a fire representing seven games
[00:23.81] And a government for hire at a combat site
[00:26.31] Left her wasn't coming in a hurry with the furies
[00:28.61] Breathing down your neck
[00:31.03] Team by team reporters, baffled, trumped, tethered, cropped
[00:32.88] Look at that low plane, fine then
[00:35.64] Uh-oh, overflow population, common group
[00:38.13] But it'll do to save yourself, serve yourself
[00:39.99] World serves its own needs, listen to your heart beat
[00:42.14] tell me with a rapture and the reverend and the right, right
[00:44.90] You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright light
[00:47.14] Feeling pretty psyched
[00:49.25] It's the end of the world as we know it
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[00:53.48] It's the, it's the end of the world as we know it
[00:58.09] it's the end of the world as we know it
[01:02.61] And I feel fine
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[01:08.42] Six o'clock T.V. hour, don't get caught in foreign towers
[01:10.93] Slash and burn, return. listen to yourself churn
[01:13.07] Lock it in, uniforming, book burning, bloodletting
[01:15.60] Every motive escalate, automotive incinerate
[01:17.68] Light a candle, light a votive, step down, step down
[01:19.99] Watch your heel crush, crushed, uh-oh
[01:21.81] This means no fear cavalier, renegade, steer clear
[01:24.73] A tournament, a tournament, a tournament of lies
[01:27.07] Offer me solutions and offer me alternatives, and I decline
[01:31.23] It's the end of the world as we know it
[01:35.45] it's the end of the world as we know it
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[01:40.11] it's the end of the world as we know it
[01:44.63] And I feel fine, I fee fine
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[02:04.08] It's the end of the world as we know it
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[02:08.24] it's the end of the world as we know it
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[02:12.85] It's the end of the world as we know it
[02:17.32] And I feel fine
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[02:23.27] The other night I dreamt of knives, continental drift divide
[02:25.35] Mountains sit in a line, Leonard Bernstein
[02:27.93] Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce, and Lester Bangs
[02:30.16] Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom
[02:32.40] You symbiotic, patriotic, slam, bug net, right, right
[02:36.71] It's the end of the world as we know it
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[02:40.82] It's the end of the world as we know it
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[02:45.69] It's the end of the world as we know it
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[02:50.11] And I feel fine
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[03:00.38] It's the end of the world as we know it
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[03:04.15] It's the end of the world as we know it
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[03:08.95] It's the end of the world as we know it
[03:13.36] And I feel fine
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[03:18.78] It's the end of the world as we know it
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[03:23.07] It's the end of the world as we know it
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[03:27.74] It's the end of the world as we know it
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[03:32.11] And I feel fine
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[03:37.56] It's the end of the world as we know it
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[03:41.61] It's the end of the world as we know it
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[03:46.61] It's the end of the world as we know it
[03:50.73] And I feel fine, fine