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(berry/buck/mills/stipe)



This world is big and so-awake
I stayed up late to hear your voice
This light is here to keep you warm
This song is here to keep you strong

I made a list of things to say
But all i really want to say
All i really want to say is
Hold her and keep him strong
While i'm away from here
Hold her and keep her strong
While i'm away from here
Hold her and keep him strong
While i'm away from here

I've seen the world and so-awake
And stay up late to hear me sing
Just hold her
I've seen the world and so-awake
And stay up late to hear me sing
Just hold him
Hold her and keep her strong
While i'm away from here
Hold him and keep him strong
While i'm away from here

(buck/mills/stipe)



I was hell
Sarcastic silver swell
That day it rained
Tough spun. hard won. no
Ocean flower aquarium
Badlands. give a hand
Honey dipt. flim flam
Hey hey. hey hey
That cat can walk like a big bad man

So happy to show us
I ate the lotus
Say haven't you noticed?
I ate the lotus

Storefront window, i reflect
Just last week i was merely heck
Tip the scale. i was hell
Picked me up, then i fell
Who's this stranger? crowbar spine
Da, da, da, and i feel fine
Let it rain, rain, rain (rain)
Bring my happy back again

So happy to show us
I ate the lotus
Say haven't you noticed?
I ate the lotus
I ate the lotus

Let it rain, rain, rain (rain)
Save me from myself again
Wash away my ugly sins
Opposing thumb, dorsal fin
That monkey died for my grin
Bring my happy back again
Let it rain (rain), rain, rain (rain)
Bring my happy back again

So happy to show us
I ate the lotus
Say haven't you noticed?
I ate the lotus
I ate the lotus
I ate the lotus
I ate the lotus

(berry/buck/mills/stipe)



Chance, chance, chance, chance

Friday bank card yours got stuck
I loaned you a phone quarter, said "good luck"
Where are you now?

Me and glasses saturday slump
You and your shopping, i looked up
Our eyes met, mine are green
You'd had a peroxide thing
Call now, look me up

Sunday walk, weaver's park,
I was on the lakeside
Where the playgrounds meet
In bare feet
You said, "mighty cold today"
You never see what i think
You didn't like your daytime job
I was born to travel

You were a camera, i dropped my keys
I'm on the northbound, you were asleep
I said, "are you holding?"
"you wanna ride the silent sky?"
I wrote a story on the fly
You in the tabletop
I said, "i've had enough of the city."

I held a bag of apples
You at the last table
I had had a soy dog
Cafe streetside, tuesday bloom
You wanna be on fire, i said i hung the moon

Wednesday grocery, corner of vine,
You were in the checkout line
I dropped my frozen dinners, you helped pick them up

Thursday cab rush, our block,
You with broken accent, my heart stopped
You laughed, i worry

Chance, chance, chance, chance
Swarming like a dozen crushing blows
All those glances, midtime dances
Chance

I never looked it up
You hit the sidewalk talking
Said, "i'd read the ads"
Do you?
Where are you? will you read this? can i see?
This is surely moving faster than i can think

A minute shy, a passing eye
I know i saw you there
Will you read this? can i see? what did i see?
Chance, chance, chance, chance
Swimming like a dozen crushing blows
All those midtime dances
Chance

Guys, this is very tedious... stop!

(berry/buck/mills/stipe)



Baby, i don't want to be seen with you
Baby, i got better things to do
Baby, i don't wanna hang around with you
Baby, i got better things to do

Cause i know you're out with other guys
Well i know you're goin' to tell me lies

Baby, i should have held you when i had the chance
Baby, i could have blew it when i never learned how to dance

Well i know you're out with other guys
And i know you're gonna tell me lies

I wait at home every night
I never leave on my back porch light
I'm hoping you won't come back
Cause if you do i'll wanna die

Baby, i don't wanna hang around with you
Baby, i got better things to do
Well, i know you're out with other guys
Well, i you're gonna tell me lies

Baby, i should have held you when i had the chance
Baby, i blew it when i never learned how to dance
Well, i know you're out with other guys
And i know you're gonna tell me lies

Baby, i

(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)



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)



You say you make her feel all right
She says she wants you, but not tonight
You know the girl is telling lies
You try some magic in her eye

When you not there other guys come sticking around
And when you ask her what's going on
She'll only push you around

Say you don't want to talk about it
She'll tell you stories, she can bet

You know the girl, she's telling lies
You try some magic in her eyes

(chorus)
But when you're not there other guys come sticking around
When you ask her what's going on
She'll only push you around
Put you down

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

You say you don't want to talk about it
She'll tell you stories
You can die
You know the girl is telling lies
You try some magic in her eye

(repeat chorus)

You can say what you want
She's sheherazade

(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)

(buck/mills/stipe)



If we're talking about love
Then i have to tell you
Dear readers, i'm not sure where i'm headed
I've gotten lost before
I've woke up stone drunk
Face down in the floor

Late afternoon, the house is hot
I started, i jumped up
Everyone hates a bore
Everybody hates a drunk

This may be a lit invention
Professors muddled in their intent
To try to rope in followers
To float their malcontent
As for this reader,
I'm already spent

Late afternoon, the house is hot
I started, i jumped up
Everyone hates a sad professor
I hate where i wound up

Dear readers, my apologies
I'm drifting in and out of sleep
Long silence presents the tragedies
Of love. note the age. get afraid
The surface hazy with attendant thoughts
A lazy eye metaphor on the rocks

Late afternoon, the house is hot
I started, i jumped up
Everyone hates a bore
Everybody hates a drunk
Everyone hates a sad professor
I hate where i wound up
I hate where i wound up

(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)



As the sun comes up, as the moon goes down
These heavy notions creep around
It makes me think
Long ago i was broght into this life, a liitle lamb
A little lamb
Courageous, stumbling
Fearless was my middle name
But somewhere there i
Lost my way
Everyone walks the same
Expecting me to step
The narrow path they've laid
They claim to

(chorus)
Walk unafraid
I'll be clumsy instead
Hold my love me or leave me
High

Say "keep within the boundaries if you want to play"
Say "contradiction only makes it harder"
How can i be
What i want to be?
When all i want to do is strip away
These stilled constraints
And crush this sharade
Shred this sad masquerade
I don't need no persuading
I'll trip, fall, pick myself up and

(repeat chorus)

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

(repeat chorus 2x)

(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 feel great. i lied to save your feelings.
Truth convened, my head smashed through the celling
I lost an arm, no one harmed, you diplomatically alarmed
I sulked away to lick my thin skin
I'm not over you, i'm not over you, i'm not over you

(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 will hide and you will hide
And we shall hide together here
Underneath the bunkers in the row

I have water, i have rum
Wait for dawn and dawn shall come
Underneath the bunkers in the row

(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

(berry/buck/mills/stipe)



If you hear this, look again
Don't be a stranger
Don't be a shadow to this boy

A penny on it's side
Write a letter, give a call
Let me know you're alive

And doing well
A quarter past three
The quarter you live in haunts my eyes
I'm hand over head
I'm held over hand
I'm hand over head over heels over you

(chorus)
Write a letter, give a call
Let me know you're alive
And doing well
It's everything for two
Don't be a stranger
Don't be a shadow to this boy

A quarter past three
A quarter past
The quarter you live in haunts my eyes
I'm hand over head
I'm held over hand
I'm hand over head over heels over you, you, you

(repeat chorus)

I'll give you a kiss
I'll give you a hug
I'll tell you a secret that's no lie
Don't be a stranger
Don't be a shadow
Don't be a shadow to this boy
Don't be a shadow to this boy
Don't be a shadow to this boy

(berry/buck/mills/stipe)



I've watched the stars fall silent from your eyes
All the sights that i have seen
I can't believe that i believed i wished
That you could see
There's a new planet in the solar system
There's nothing up my sleeve

(chorus 1)
I'm pushing an elephant up the stairs
I'm tossing up punchlines that were never there
Over my shoulder a piano falls
Crashing to the ground

And all this talk of time
Talk is fine
And i don't want to stay around
Why can't we pantomime, just close our eyes
And sleep sweet dreams
Being here with wings on our feet

(repeat chorus 1)

(chorus 2)
I'm breaking through
I'm bending spoons
I'm keeping flowers in full bloom
I'm looking for answers from the great beyond

I want the hummingbirds, the dancing bears
Sweetest dreams of you
Look into the stars
Look into the moon

(repeat chorus 1)

(repeat chorus 2 2x)

I'm breaking through
I'm bending spoons
I'm keeping flowers in full bloom
I'm looking for answers from the great, answers from the great
I'm breaking through
I'm bending spoons
I'm keeping flowers in full bloom
I'm looking for answers from the great, answers from the great, answers