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(buck/mills/stipe)



You wake up in the morning
And fall out of your bed
Mean cats eat parakeets
And this one's nearly dead
You dearly wish the wind would shift
And greasy windows slide
Open for the parakket
Who's colored bitter lime

Open the window
To lift into a dream
Baby, baby
You can barely breathe

A broken wrist
An accident
You know that something's wrong
You fold the leavings of your past
No one knows you've gone
The sunspot flares of the early
Nineties light up your wings
And scan the shortwave radio
It's tracking outer rings

(chorus)
Open the window
To lift into a dream
Baby, baby
You can start to breathe

The tectonic dispatcher shifts
To smooth the ocean floor
And flattens out to warmer winde
Of brisbane's sunny shore
Where buddhas tend to mending wrists
A tea made from the leaves
Of eucalyptus fragances
And coriander seeds

(repeat chorus 2x)

You wake up in the morning
To warm pacific breeze
Where mean cats chew on licorice
And cannot climb the trees

I do the dancin'
You do the hoppin'
You do the boppin'
I do the shakin'

I'm just romancin'
You do the dancin'
I see your sequence
It's looking, smashing

You make the action, action
Happen, happen
Action, action
Happen, happen

I'm finger poppin'
You do the dancin'
You do the shakin'
You're looking right now

You make the action, action
Happen, happen
You make the action
Happen, happen

I'm finger poppin'
You do the hoppin'
I see your sequance
It's looking right there
You do the dancing
I do romancing
You call it hoppin'
There's no stoppin'

You make the action, action
Happen, happen

(berry/buck/mills/stipe)



You got your problems darling
I got mine too
You know that
Maybe it's time for you to come through
Because i'm fed up with waiting for you
Won't you decide real fast
What are you gonna do?

I've almost given up hope
Then what else is new?
You know that
I'm at the end of my rope trying to hang on to you
Because my patience is wearing thin just waiting for you
Won't you decide real fast
What are you gonna do

You better wait (wait!)
Don't go away now darling, wait (wait!)
Why don't you stay?
You better wait (wait!)
Don't go away now, wait (wait!)
Why don't you stay?

(chorus)
I know that you're confused
It's no crime
You better hurry sugar
Cuz we're running out of time
Because my patience is wearing thin just waiting for you
Won't you decide real fast
What are you gonna do?

(repeat chorus)

I don't wanna walk on the same stage with you
Then the bells begin to blow in my head
If things don't turn out right
It's gonna be all right

(repeat chorus 4x)

(berry/buck/mills/stipe)



Too, too, took her so long
I was only having fun
I guess i'm really hung
I guess you'd better run

That's what lisa said

While you running all over town
Why don't you settle down
I told her we were just friends
She believed it till the end

(chorus)
That's what lisa said
That's what she said

She's a (cherry?) now
She put me on her
She put you on trial
No, i'm in her

Too, too, took her so long
I was only having fun
I guess i'm not so hung
I guess you'd better run

(repeat chorus)

(buck/mills/stipe/leonard cohen)



You want to go out friday
And you want to go forever
You know that sounds childish
That you've dreamt of alligators
You hope that we are with you
And you hope you're recoginezed
You want to go forever
You see it in my eyes
I'm lost in the confusion
And it doesn't seem to matter
You really can't believe it
And you hope it's getting better

You want to trust the doctors
Their procedure is the best
But the last try was a failure
And the intern was a mess
And they did the same to matthew
And he bled 'til sunday night
They're saying don't be frightened
But you're weakened by the sight of it
You lock into a pattern
And you know that it's the last ditch
You're trying to see through it
And it doesn't make sense
But they're saying don't be frightened
And they're killing alligators
And they're hog-tied
And accepting of the struggle

You want to trust religion
And you know it's allegory
But the people who are followers
Have written their own story
So you look up to the heavens
And you hope that it's a spaceship
And it's something from your childhood
You're thinking don't be frightened

You want to climb the ladder
You want to see forever
You want to go out friday
And you want to go forever
And you want to cross your dna
To cross your dna with something reptile
And you're questioning the sciences
And questioning religion
You're looking like an idiot
And you no longer care
And you want to bridge the schism,
A built-in mechanism to protect you
And you're looking for salvation
And you're looking for deliverance
You're looking like an idiot
And you no longer care
'cause you want to climb the ladder
You want to go forever
And you want to go out friday
You want to go forever

(berry/buck/mills/stipe)



When i was watching tv back in 73
A skinny old man sure appealed to me
His name by now, i'm sure you know
The man who played a starring role in jacques cousteau
Oh, i

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
Oh, i

(chorus)
I wanna be a narrator
I wanna be a narrator (i wanna be a narrator)
For the jacques cousteau show
For the jacques cousteau show (for the jacques cousteau show)

Swimming under water with my microphone
I'd record noises in the aqua-zone
Chasing down the killer whale that's eating our crew
Just to bring the story facts back to you
Oh, i

(repeat chorus)

I've written the networks, sent my picture too
Done everything i could possibly do
I've given up trying to get through to him
Maybe he knows i don't know how to swim
Oh, i

(repeat chorus)

(berry/buck/mills/stipe)



He's got his work and she comes easy
They each come around when the other is gone
Me, i think i got stuck somewhere in between
I wouldn't confide in the prodigal son
The die has been cast, the battle is won
The bullets were blanks, a double aught gun
I couldn't admit to a minute of fun

(chorus 1)
They come and they come and they come and they come
I accepted with a gentle tongue
No words spoken, no need to speak

Take it, stomp twice, ring the bell
Tether that ring and phrase
Enough with the rifle and talk already
We all know what it means
Take this conversation to your great divide
I can only swallow what i ate
And i don't hate him
And i don't hate her

They come and they come and they come and they come
I accepted with a gentle tongue
No heart broken, no need to speak

(chorus 2)
(don't talk to me)
Don't talk to me about being alone
(don't talk to me)
Don't talk to me about being alone
(don't talk to me)
Don't talk to me about being alone

Reach for each other before you leave
Reach peace with a e-a-c
Don't threaten me with a gentle tease
Don't threaten me with angry
Please, please, please
Don't try to tell me what i am

(repeat chorus 1)

(repeat chorus 2)

(talk to me)
Don't talk to me
(talk to me)
Don't talk to me
(don't talk to me)
Don't talk to me
(don't talk to me)
Don't talk to me about being alone

(berry/buck/mills/stipe/natalie merchant)



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,
I'd place her in between the wars

Was she willing when she sat
And posed the pretty photograph?
Save her flowering and fair,
The days to come, the days to share
A big smile for the camera,
How did she know?
The moment could be lost forever
Forever more

I found this photograph,
Stashed between the old joist walls,
In a place where time is lost,
Lost behind, where all things fall
Broken books and calendars,
Letters script in careful hand,
Music too, a standard tune by
Some forgotten big brass band

From the threshhold what's to see
Of our brave new century?
The television's just a dream,
The radio, the silver screen
A big smile for the camera,
How did she know?
The moment could be lost forever
Forever more

Was her childhood filled with rhymes,
Stolen hooks, impassioned crimes?
Was she innocent or blind
To the cruelty of her time?
Was she fearful in her day,
Was she hopeful, did she pray?
Were there skeletons inside,
Family secrets, sworn to hide?
Did she feel the beat that stirs,
The fall from grace of wayward girls?
Was she tempted to pretend,
The love and laughter, 'til the end?

(berry/buck/mills/stipe)



A public service announcement followed me home the other day,
I bade it nevermind, go away
The shit's so thick, you could stir it with a stick,
The paper wouldn't lie, we assume the loss to mankind and gloat and jeer with it

Broadcast me a joyful noise into the times, lord,
Count your blessings, ignore the lowest fear, well you can't sandblast glisten

Radio no, play the game, three words, first one short,
Magazine, book, cinema, n - o - down,
Many fears are gone, step down, step down,
Watch a heel crush, ah, this means war

I saw the light, it can't be right

Broadcast me a joyful noise into the times, lord,
Count your blessings, ignore the lowest fear, well you can't sandblast

(chorus)
It's been a bad day, please don't take my picture,
It's been a bad day, please
It's been a bad day, please don't take my picture,
It's been a bad day, please

A public service announcement followed me home the other day,
I bade it nevermind,
The shit's so thick, you could stir it with a stick,
The paper wouldn't lie, we assume the loss to mankind and gloat and jeer with it

I saw the light, it can't be right

Broadcast me a joyful noise into the times, lord,
Count your blessings, ignore the lowest fear, come one, what more?

(repeat chorus)

(berry/buck/mills/stipe)



(that beat, that beat, that beat)

Eastern calls from way out wherever
Away i go, anchored in that beat
Thirsting for us too, three's a no man, but

(chorus)
Remember, call that beat
Remember, call that beat

Finger lead them up, crime to rape the beat
Thirsting for us too, three's a no man, but

(repeat chorus 2x)

Finger lead them up (up), crime to rape the beat
Thirsting for us too (too), three's a no man, but

(repeat chorus 2x)

(berry/buck/mills/stipe)



Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Your revolution is a silly idea, yeah
All your friends are feeling sad
It's like you need a reason to be feeling bad, yeah
You sport an armband when your good and mad, yeah

(chorus)
La, la, la, la revolution (the future never happened)
La, la, la, la revolution

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
Of the crimes that we committed
The future never happened, it never happened

La, la, la, la revolution (the future never happened)
La, la, la, la, i picked up a bad vibration

Your revolution is a silly idea, yeah
You tried to look like a punk rock girl
A whole lotta sneer, and little curl
I don't have time for your theatrics
Everybody knows that you're a bad actress
We've been sorry for great too long, yeah
But a scum is rising, yeah

(repeat chorus 2x)

(buck/mills/stipe)



They call me the apologist
And now that i'm at peak
You know at first it really hurt
We joke about these things
I've skirted all my diferences
But now i'm facing up
I wanted to apologize for
Everything i was. so

I'm sorry, so sorry
So sorry
So sorry
So sorry
So sorry
So sorry

Did you understand me right?
The people here are good
They tell me what i should have done
And offer what i could
I'm good, all is good
All's well, no complaints
When i fell regret,
I get down on my knees and pray

I'm sorry (so sorry), so sorry (so sorry)
So sorry (so sorry)
So sorry (so sorry)
So sorry (so sorry)
So sorry (so sorry)
So sorry (so sorry)
So sorry

I live a simple life
Unfettered by complex sweets (so sorry)
You think this isn't me? (so sorry)
Don't be weak (so sorry)
There i go (so sorry)
I'm so sorry

Thank you for being there for me
Thank you for listening, goodbye
I can forfeit selfishness
I hope for you that you apply
This happiness
This peacefulness
This peacefulness

I'm sorry (so sorry), so sorry (so sorry)
So sorry (so sorry)
So sorry (so sorry)
So sorry (so sorry)
So sorry (so sorry)
So sorry (so sorry)

I live (so sorry) a simple life (so sorry)
Unfettered (so sorry) by complex sweets (so sorry)
You think this isn't me? (so sorry)
That's so sweet (so sorry, so sorry)
I'm so sorry

Thank you for being there for me
Thank you for listening, goodbye

(berry/buck/mills/stipe)



Living in cities, living in cars
Living the way you never wanted to
Living in alleys, living it down
Living the way you always thought you'd do

Shakin' it up shakin' it down
Shakin' the way you never wanted to

Living in cities, living in cars
Living the way you always thought
You'd do

You feel so old, i feel so new
Tell me what you want me to
Do you want me to go all night
Do you want me to tell you you're all
Right

Living in cities, living in cars
Living the way you never wanted to

Lord, i feel so new
Tell me what you want me to do

And it's a mystery to me
And it's a mystery to me

Well your trying, trying to look so hard
But you want, but you want, but you want to go

Living in cities, living in cars
Living the way you never wanted to
Shakin' it up, shaking it down
Shakin' the way you always thought you'd do

You feel so old, i feel so new
Tell me what you want me to do

(buck/mills/stipe)



I'll take the position
Assume the missionary part
You work by committee,
You had me pegged from the start
I'll be pounce pony,
Phony maroney,
Pony before the cart
I'll be pounce pony
This ceremony
Only fills my heart

Who cast the final stone?
Who threw the crushing blow?
Someone has to take the fall
Why not me?

A punch toy volunteer
A weakling on its knee
Is all you want to hear
And all you want to see
Romantically, you'd martyr me
And miss this story's point
It is my strenght, my destiny
This is the role that i have chosen

(chorus)
Who cast the final stone?
Who threw the crushing blow?
Someone has to take the fall
Why not me? why not me?

Gentlemen mark your opponents
Fire into your own ranks
Pick the weakest as strategic
Move. square off. to
Meet your enemy
For each and every gathering
A scapegoat falls to climb
As i step forward, silently
Deliberately mine

(repeat chorus)

Had consequence chose differently
Had fate its ugly head
My actions make me beautiful
And dignify the flesh

Me. i am free, i am free

(berry/buck/mills/stipe)



I know you say
Maybe some day
I need never be alone
I know i say
It's the right way
But you'll never be the one

I've been walking alone
For a long long, long time
I don't wanna hang out now
With the folks that just don't mind

While you party
You've been looking
But your searching never ends
You've been saying
With the wrong crowd
You've got all the right friends

(chorus 1)
I've been walking alone
For a long, long time
I don't gotta hang out
With the friends that just aren't mine

(chorus 2)
I don't wanna be with you anymore
I just don't want you anymore
I don't wanna be with you anymore
I just don't want you anymore

I know you say
Maybe some day
I need never be alone
I know i say it's the right way,
But you'll never be alone

(repeat chorus 1)

I don't wanna be with you anymore
I just don't want you anymore
I don't wanna talk to you anymore
I don't like your way you walk anyhow

(repeat chorus 2)

(berry/buck/mills/stipe)



I get so disturbed, i'm all alone
I feel so funny talking on the phone

I fall apart when i hear you speak
Believe me girl, i just feel weak

I wonder how i got involved with a girl like
You want to tell me that i'm not you're kind of guy
You break the news and i break down and cry, i cry

You're having fun, well that's all right
I'm too weak to put up a fight
I wish you'd just tell what was wrong
Instead of leading my on

I get so disturbed when i'm all alone
I feel so funny talking on the phone
I fall apart when i hear your speak
Believe me girl, i just feel weak
I wish you'd just tell me what was wrong
Instead of leading me on

I try to call
(call on the phone)
I try to call
(but nobody's home)
I wonder why
(you lead my along)

I wonder how i got involved with a girl like you

(buck/mills/stipe)



You wanted a challenge that's calling you higher
I landed on my feet by crawling
I remember standing alone trying to forget you idling
I hate to admit that that's my reference point
But there it is you say you want me

I'm what you found, i'm upside down
You're in the air, you're in the air and i am breathing

Brighten the stars
The weather is lifting the heavens love a love like this
It's pulling you higher twist it and turn this around
It lights from within it dribbles your chin
Now brings a smile, i'm lost again
I'm lost again

I'm what you found, i'm upside down
You're in the air, you're in the air and i am breathing you

I want the stars to know they've won if only to beguile
The sky has opened up again in heavens reconciled
I want you naked, i want you wild, i want the stars to know they win
Give me that smile, just give it me, just turn it on, i'm lost again

I'm what you found, i'm upside down
You're in the air
I'm what you found, i'm upside down
You're in the air
I'm what you found, i'm upside down
You're everywhere, you're in the air and i am breathing you

(buck/mills/stipe)



(chorus)
I've found a way to make you
I've found a way
A way to make you smile

I read bad poetry
Into your machine
I save your messages
Just to hear your voice
You always listen carefully
To awkward rhymes
You always say your name,
Like i wouldn't know it's you,
At your most beautiful

(repeat chorus)

At my most beautiful
I count your eyelashes, secretly
With every one, whisper i love you
I let you sleep
I know you're closed eye watching me,
Listening
I thought i saw a smile

(repeat chorus)

(berry/buck/mills/stipe)



Gotta get away, gotta get away
Gotta get away, gotta get

(chorus)
I'm on a permanent vacation
Nothing left to move
I want a revelation
Nothing left to prove
I could take it with me
Leave you all behind
Got some kind of feeling
Burnin' on my mind

Sleeping late in the morning
Stay out all night long
Every day is like the one before
I'm going wrong
I'm going wrong

(repeat chorus)

There's only one thing you can do
This i gotta do, oh, oh, oh
I got nothing to win, nothing to lose
Nothing left to prove
One thing to do

Well, i'm on a permanent vacation
I'm on a permanent vacation
I'm on a permanent vacation
Permanent vacation