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Qualcuno sa se esiste un sito in italiano con i testi tradotti dei Rem, o un
libro con le traduzioni?
FabioS1981

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Ciao Fabio Come va?
No non ti so dire nessun indirizzo web; un volta li avevo poi ho formattato
e ho perso tuuto pero
HO QUESTO!
REM--Automatic for the People
DRIVE
Smack, crack, bushwhacked.
Tie another one to the racks, baby.
Hey kids, rock and roll.
Nobody tells you where to go, baby.
What if I ride? What if you walk?
What if you rock around the clock?
Tick-tock. Tick-tock.
What if you did? What if you walk?
What if you tried to get off, baby?
Hey, kids, where are you?
Nobody tells you what to do, baby.
Hey kids, shake a leg.
Maybe you're crazy in the head, baby.
Maybe you did. Maybe you walked.
Maybe you rocked around the clock.
Tick-tock. Tick-tock.
Maybe I ride. Maybe you walk.
Maybe I drive to get off, baby.
Hey kids, shake a leg.
Maybe you're crazy in the head, baby.
Ollie, ollie.
Ollie ollie ollie.
Ollie ollie in come free, baby.
Hey, kids, where are you?
Nobody tells you what to do, baby.
Smack, crack. Shack-a-lack.
Tie another one to your back, baby.
Hey kids, rock and roll.
Nobody tells you where to go, baby.
Maybe you did. Maybe you walk.
Maybe you rock around the clock
Tick-tock. Tick-tock.
Maybe I ride. Maybe you walk.
Maybe I drive to get off, baby.
Hey kids, where are you?
Nobody tells you what to do, baby.
Hey kids, rock and roll.
Nobody tells you where to go, baby, baby, baby.
TRY NOT TO BREATHE
I will try not to breathe.
I can hold my head still with my hands at my knees.
These eyes are the eyes of the old, shiver and fold.
I will try not to breathe.
This decision is mine. I have lived a full life
and these are the eyes that I want you to remember. Oh.
I need something to fly over my grave again.
I need something to breathe.
I will try not to burden you.
I can hold these inside. I will hold my breath
until all these shivers subside,
just look in my eyes.
I will try not to worry you.
I have seen things that you will never see.
Leave it to memory me. I shudder to breathe.
I want you to remember. Oh.
(you will never see)
I need something to fly
(something to fly)
over my grave again.
(you will never see)
I need something to breathe.
(something to breathe)
Baby, don't shiver now.
Why do you shiver now?
(I will see things you will never see)
I need something to fly
(something to fly)
over my grave again.
(I will see things you will never see)
I need something to breathe. Oh. Oh. Oh.
I will try not to worry you.
I have seen things that you will never see.
Leave it to memory me. Don't dare me to breathe.
I want you to remember. Oh.
(you will never see)
I need something to fly
(something to fly)
over my grave again.
(you will never see)
I need something to breathe.
(something to breathe)
Baby, don't shiver now.
Why do you shiver now?
(I will see things you will never see)
I need something to breathe.
(something to breathe - I have seen things you will never see)
I want you to remember.
THE SIDEWINDER SLEEPS TONIGHT
This here is the place I will be staying.
There isn't a number. You can call the pay phone.
Let it ring a long, long, long, long time.
If I don't pick up, hang up, call back, let it ring some more.
If I don't pick up, pick up...
The sidewinder sleeps, sleeps, sleeps in a coil
Call me when you try to wake her up.
Call me when you try to wake her.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
Call me when you try to wake her.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
Call me when you try to wake her.
There are scratches all around the coin slot
like a heartbeat, baby trying to wake up,
but this machine can only swallow money.
You can't lay a patch by computer design.
It's just a lot of stupid, stupid signs.
Tell her,
tell her she can kiss my ass,
then laugh and say that you were only kidding.
That way she'll know that it's really, really, really, really me.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
Call me when you try to wake her.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
Call me when you try to wake her.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
Call me when you try to wake her.
Baby, instant soup doesn't really grab me.
Today I need something more sub-sub-sub-substantial.
A can of beans or blackeyed peas, some Nescafe and ice,
a candy bar, a falling star, or a reading of Doctor Seuss;
Call me when you try to wake her up.
Call me when you try to wake her.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
Call me when you try to wake her.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
Call me when you try to wake her.
The cat in the hat came back,
wrecked a lot of havoc on the way,
always had a smile and a reason to pretend.
But their world has flat backgrounds
and little need to sleep but to dream.
The sidewinder sleeps on his back.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
Call me when you try to wake her.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
Call me when you try to wake her.
I can always sleep standing up.
Call me when you try to wake her.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
Call me when you try to wake her.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
Call me when you try to wake her.
I can always sleep standing up.
Call me when you try to wake her.
Call me when you try to wake her up.
Call me when you try to wake her.
I can always sleep standing up.
Call me when you try to wake her.
I can always sleep standing up.
Call me when you try to wake her.
We've got to moogie, moogie, move on this one.
EVERYBODY HURTS
When the day is long and the night, the night is yours alone,
when you're sure you've had enough of this life, well hang on.
Don't let yourself go, everybody cries and everybody hurts sometimes.
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.
Everybody hurts. Take comfort in your friends.
Everybody hurts. Don't throw your hand. Oh, no.
Don't throw your hand.
If you feel like you're alone, no, no, no, you are not alone
If you're on your own in this life, the days and nights are long,
when you think you've had too much of this life to hang on.
Well, everybody hurts sometimes,
everybody cries. And everybody hurts sometimes.
And everybody hurts sometimes. So, hold on, hold on.
Hold on, hold on. Hold on, hold on. Hold on, hold on.
(repeat & fade)
(Everybody hurts. You are not alone.)
SWEETNESS FOLLOWS
Readying to bury your father and your mother,
what did you think when you lost another?
I used to wonder why did you bother,
distanced from one, blind to the other?
Listen here my sister and my brother
what would you care if you lost the other?
I always wonder why did we bother,
distanced from one, deaf to the other.
Oh, oh, but sweetness follows
It's these little things, they can pull you under.
Live your life filled with joy and wonder.
I always knew this altogether thunder
was lost in our little lives.
Oh, oh, but sweetness follows.
Oh, oh, but sweetness follows.
It's these little things, they can pull you under.
Live your life filled with joy and thunder.
Yeah, yeah we were altogether
lost in our little lives.
Oh. Oh. Ah.
Oh, oh, but sweetness follows.
Oh, oh, but sweetness follows.
MONTY GOT A RAW DEAL
Monty this seems strange to me.
The movies had that movie thing,
but nonsense has a welcome ring
and heroes don't come easy.
Now, nonsense isn't new to me.
I know my head, I know my feet,
but mischief knocked me in the knees.
Said, Just let go. Just let go.
I saw the ocean meet the man.
I saw you buried in the sand.
A friend was there to hold your hand,
Said, Walk on by.
So, I went walking through the street.
I saw you strung up in a tree.
A woman knelt there said to me,
said, Hold your tongue, man. Hold your tongue.
You don't owe me anything.
You don't want this sympathy. [waste your breath]
Don't you waste your breath. [waste your breath]
for the silver screen.
That nonsense doesn't mean a thing,
they tried to bust you in a sting,
but virtue isn't everything
so, don't waste time.
Now, here's a rhyme that you can steal.
Put this on your reel to reel.
Mischief threw a rotten deal.
Monty's laying low, man.
He is laying low.
Just let go, y'all.
Just let go.
You don't owe me anything.
You don't want this sympathy. [waste your breath]
Don't you waste your breath. [waste your breath]
Monty this seems strange to me.
IGNORELAND
These bastards stole their power from the victims of the Us v.
Them years, wrecking all things virtuous and true.
The undermining social democratic downhill slide into abysmal
lost lamb off the precipice into the trickle down runoff pool.
They hypnotized the summer, Nineteen seventy-nine.
Marched into the capital brooding duplicitous,
wicked and able, media-ready,
heartless, and labeled. Super U.S. citizen, super achiever,
mega ultra power dosing. Relax.
Defense, defense, defense, defense. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ignoreland. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ignoreland.
The information nation took their clues from all the sound-bite gluttons.
Nineteen eighty, eighty-four, eighty-eight, ninety-two too, too.
How to be what you can be, jump jam junking your energies.
How to walk in dignity with throw-up on your shoes
They amplified the autumn, Nineteen seventy-nine.
Calculate the capital, up the republic my skinny ass.
T.V. tells a million lies. The paper's terrified to report
anything that isn't handed on a presidential spoon,
I'm just profoundly frustrated by all this. So, fuck you, man.(Fuck 'm)
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ignoreland. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ignoreland.
If they weren't there we would have created them. Maybe, it's true,
but I'm resentful all the same. Someone's got to take the blame.
I know that this is vitriol. No solution, spleen-venting,
But I feel better having screamed. Don't you?
They desecrated winter, Nineteen seventy-nine.
Capital collateral. Brooding duplicitous, wicked and able, media-ready,
heartless, and labeled. Super U.S. citizen, super achiever,
mega ultra power dosing. Relax.
Defense, defense, defense, defense. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ignoreland. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ignoreland.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ignoreland. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
STAR ME KITTEN
Keys cut, three for the price of one.
Nothing's free but guaranteed for a lifetime's use.
I've changed the locks
and you can't have one.
You, you know the other two.
The brakes have worn so thin that you could hear,
I hear them screeching through the door from our driveway.
Hey love, look into your glovebox heart.
What is there for me inside? This love is tired.
I've changed the locks. Have I misplaced you?
Have we lost our minds?
Will this never end?
It could depend on your take.
You. Me. We used to be on fire.
If keys are all that stand between,
Can I throw in the ring?
No gasoline.
Just fuck me kitten.
You are wild and I'm in your possession.
Nothing's free so, fuck me kitten.
I'm in your possession.
So, fuck me kitten.
MAN ON THE MOON
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.
Mister Fred Blassie in a breakfast mess. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Let's play Twister, let's play Risk. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
See you heaven if you make the list. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Hey, Andy did you hear about this one? Tell me, are you locked in the punch?
Hey Andy are you goofing on Elvis? Hey, baby. Are we losing touch?
If you believed they put a man on the moon, man on the moon.
If you believe there's nothing up my sleeve, then nothing is cool.
Moses went walking with the staff of wood. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Newton got beaned by the apple good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Egypt was troubled by the horrible asp. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Mister Charles Darwin had the gall to ask. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Hey Andy did you hear about this one? Tell me, are you locked in the punch?
Hey, Andy are you goofing on Elvis? Hey, baby. Are you having fun?
If you believed they put a man on the moon, man on the moon.
If you believe there's nothing up my sleeve, then nothing is cool.
Here's a little agit for the never-believer. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Here's a little ghost for the offering. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Here's a truck stop instead of Saint Peter's. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Mister Andy Kaufman's gone wrestling [wrestling bears]. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah.
Hey Andy did you hear about this one? Tell me, are you locked in the punch?
Hey Andy are you goofing on Elvis, hey baby, are we losing touch?
If you believed they put a man on the moon, man on the moon.
If you believe there's nothing up my sleeve, then nothing is cool.
NIGHTSWIMMING
Nightswimming deserves a quiet night.
The photograph on the dashboard, taken years ago,
turned around backwards so the windshield shows.
Every streetlight reveals the picture in reverse.
Still, it's so much clearer.
I forgot my shirt at the water's edge.
The moon is low tonight.
Nightswimming deserves a quiet night.
I'm not sure all these people understand.
It's not like years ago,
The fear of getting caught,
of recklessness and water.
They cannot see me naked.
These things, they go away,
replaced by everyday.
Nightswimming, remembering that night.
September's coming soon.
I'm pining for the moon.
And what if there were two
Side by side in orbit
Around the fairest sun?
That bright, tight forever drum
could not describe nightswimming.
You, I thought I knew you.
You I cannot judge.
You, I thought you knew me,
this one laughing quietly underneath my breath.
Nightswimming.
The photograph reflects,
every streetlight a reminder.
Nightswimming deserves a quiet night, deserves a quiet night.
FIND THE RIVER
Hey now, little speedyhead,
the read on the speedmeter says
you have to go to task in the city
where people drown and people serve.
Don't be shy. Your just deserve
is only just light years to go.
Me, my thoughts are flower strewn
ocean storm, bayberry moon.
I have got to leave to find my way.
Watch the road and memorize
this life that pass before my eyes.
Nothing is going my way.
The ocean is the river's goal,
a need to leave the water knows
We're closer now than light years to go.
I have got to find the river,
bergamot and vetiver
run through my head and fall away.
Leave the road and memorize
this life that pass before my eyes.
Nothing is going my way.
There's no one left to take the lead,
but I tell you and you can see
we're closer now than light years to go.
Pick up here and chase the ride.
The river empties to the tide.
Fall into the ocean.
The river to the ocean goes,
a fortune for the undertow.
None of this is going my way.
There is nothing left to throw
of Ginger, lemon, indigo,
coriander stem and rose of hay.
Strength and courage overrides
the privileged and weary eyes
of river poet search naivete.
Pick up here and chase the ride.
The river empties to the tide.
All of this is coming your way.
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E QUESTO!
@ALBUM: OUT OF TIME (from the songbook) last revised 11/13/94
@SONG: RADIO SONG
Hey, I can't find nothing on the radio
Yo! turn to that station
 The world is collapsing
Around our ears I turned up the radio
But I can't hear it
When I got to the house And I called you out I could tell that you had been
crying, crying
 It's that same sing song on the radio
It makes me sad I meant to turn it off
To say goodbye To leave in quiet that radio song
Hey hey hey I've everything to show I've everything to hide
Look into my eyes Listen When I got to the show
Yo ho ho I could tell that you had been crying, crying
It's that same sing song, and the
DJ sucks It makes me sad I tried to turn it off
 To say goodbye my love
That radio song
Hey hey hey
The world is collapsing
Around our ears I turned up the
I can't hear it Yeah I tried to sing along
But damn that radio song
Hey hey hey
I've everything to show I've everything to hide
Look into my eyes listen to the radio
 I turned up the radio But I can't hear it
No, I can't hear it
Hey hey hey 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
All their lives radio
Listeners
@SONG: LOSING MY RELIGION
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
 That's me in the corner
That's me in the spotlight
Losing my religion
Trying to keep up with you
And I don't know if I can do it
Oh no I've said too much
I haven't said enough
I thought that I heard you laughing I thought that I heard you sing I think
I thought I saw you try
Every whisper
Of every waking hour I'm
 Choosing my confessions
 Trying to keep an eye on you
 Like a hurt lost and blinded fool
Oh no I've said too much I set it up
Consider this
The hint of the century
Consider this
The slip that brought me
 To my knees failed
What if all these fantasies
Come flailing around
Now I've said too much
I thought that I heard you laughing I thought that I heard you sing I think
I thought I saw you try
But that was just a dream
That was just a dream
@SONG: LOW
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
In between
Down below
 Low low low
 I skipped the part about love
It seems so silly and low
Low low low
Low low low
I said the morning
 It isn't your time
Barefoot naked I can see your lines
It doesn't bother me
That you are right
Your grass is grassy wet
 Your light white is bright
 Light white light I skipped the part about love
It seems so shallow and low
Low low low
Low low low
You and me
We know about time
We know how things go
 They come and go
They live and grow
They pass and go
 And glow and glow
Up and down
High and low
Low low low
 Low low low
 I skipped the part about love
 It seems so silly and low I skipped the part about love
It seems so shallow and low
Low low low
 Low low low
I like your hands
All full of glory
All full of glory
@SONG: NEAR WILD HEAVEN
 Whenever we hold each other
 We hold each other
 There's a feeling that's gone
 Something has gone wrong
 And I don't know how much longer I can take it
 House made of heart break it
 Take my head in your hands and shake it in this near wild heaven
Not near enough.
Living inside
Living inside
Near wild heaven
Whatever it takes I'm giving
 It's just a gift I'm given
 Try to live inside
Trying to move inside
 And I always thought that it would make me smarter
 But it's only made me harder
My heart thrown open wide
In this near wild heaven
Not near enough
. Living inside
Living inside
 Near wild heaven
 I'm holding my hands together
 I'm holding my feet together
 I'm holding myself together
In this near wild heaven
Not near enough
 @SONG: ENDGAME (instrumental)
 @SONG: SHINY HAPPY PEOPLE
Shiny happy people laughing
Meet me in the crowd
People people
 Throw your love around
Love me love me
Take it into town
Happy happy
Put it in the ground
Where the flowers grow
Gold and silver shine
 Shiny happy people holding hands
 Shiny happy people laughing
 Everyone around love them, love them
Put it in your hands
 Take it take it
There's no time to cry
 Happy happy
Put it in your heart
 Where tomorrow shines
Gold and silver shine
Shiny happy people holding hands
 Shiny happy people laughing
 @SONG: BELONG
Her world collapsed early
Sunday morning
 She got up from the kitchen table
Folded the newspaper and silenced the radio
Those creatures jumped the barricades
And have headed for the sea, sea
 Those creatures jumped the barricades and have headed for the sea
She began to breathe
To breathe at the thought of such freedom
Stood and whispered to her child, belong
She held the child and whispered
 With calm, calm; belong
Stood and whispered to her child, belong
She held the child and whispered
With calm, calm; belong
These barricades can only hold for so long
 Her world collapsed early Sunday morning
 She took the child held tight
 Opened the window
A breath, this song, how long and knew, knew; belong
@SONG: HALF A WORLD AWAY
 This could be the saddest dusk I've ever seen
Turn to a miracle high alive
My mind is racing
 As it always will
 My hand is tired my heart aches I'm half a world away here my head sworn
To go it alone
And hold it along
 Haul it along
And hold it
 Go it alone
Hold it along and hold, hold
. 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
And hold it
 Blackbirds backwards forwards and fall and hold hold
. Oh this lonely world is wasted
Pathetic eyes high alive blind to the tide that turns the sea
This storm it came up strong it shook the trees
And blew away our fear
I couldn't even hear
To go it alone
And hold it along
Haul it along
And hold it
 To go it alone
And hold it along
Haul it along
To go it alone
And hold it along
Haul it along
And hold it
 Blackbirds backwards forwards and fall and hold hold.
 This could be the saddest dusk I've ever seen
Turn to a miracle high alive
My mind is racing
 As it always will
 My hands tired my heart aches
I'm half a world away and go.
@SONG: TEXARKANA
 20,000 miles to an oasis
20,000 years will I burn
 20,000 chances I wasted
Waiting for the moment to turn
 I would give my life to find it
 I would give it all
 Catch me if I fall
 Walking through the woods
 I have faced it
 Looking for something to learn
 30,000 thoughts have replaced it,
 Never in my time to return
I would give my life to find it
 I would give it all
 Catch me if I fall
 All alone
Waiting to fall 40,000 stars in the evening
Look at them fall from the sky
 40,000 reasons for living
40,000 tears in your eye
I would give my life to find it
 I would give it all
 Catch me if I fall
 @SONG: COUNTRY FEEDBACK
This flower is scorched
This film is on
On a maddening loop.
 These clothes,
 These clothes don't fit us right I'm to blame
It's all the same
It's all the same
You come to me with a bone in your hand
You come to me with your hair curled tight
 You come to me with positions
You come to me with excuses
 Ducked out in a row
You wear me out
You wear me out
We've been through fake-a-breakdown
Self hurt
Plastics, collections
Self help, self pain,
EST, psychics, fuck all
I was central
I had control
 I lost my head
I need this
 I need this
 A paper weight, junk garage
 Winter rain, a honey pot
Crazy, all the lovers have been tagged.
 A hotline, a wanted ad
 It's crazy what you could've had
It's crazy what you could've had
It's crazy what you could've had
I need this I need this
 @SONG: ME IN HONEY
I sat there looking ugly
 Looking ugly and mean
 I knew what you were saying
You were saying to me
Baby's got some new rules
Baby said she's had it with me
It seems a shame you waste your time on me
It seems a lot to waste your time for me
 Left me to love
 What it's doing to me
There's a lot of honey in this world
Baby this honey's from me
You've got to do what you do
Do it with me It seems a shame you waste your time for me
 Left me to love
What it's doing to me
 Knocked silly
 Knock flat
 Sideways down
These things they pick you up and they
Turn you around
Say your piece
 Say you're sweet for me
It's all the same to share the pain with me
 It's all the same.
 Save the shame for me
Left me to love
What it's doing to me
Baby's got some new rules
Baby says she's had it with me
 There's a fly in the honey
 And baby's got a baby with me
 That's a part
 That's a part of me
Left me to love
What it's doing to me
 Left me to love
What it's doing to me
What about me?
E ANCORA QUESTO!
@ALBUM: DOCUMENT last revised 2/5/95 @SONG: FINEST WORKSONG The time to rise
has been engaged You're better best to rearrange I'm talking here to me
alone I listen to the finest worksong Your finest hour Another chance has
been engaged To throw Thoreau and rearrange You are following this time I
beg you not beg to rhyme (blow your horn) Your finest hour (blow your horn)
Take your instinct by the reins Your better best to rearrange What we want
and what we need Has been confused been confused (blow your horn) Your
finest hour (blow your horn) (repeat 3rd verse) @SONG: WELCOME TO THE
OCCUPATION Hang your collar up inside Hang your dollar on me Listen to the
water still Listen to the cause where you are Fed and educated, primitive
and wild Welcome to the occupation Here we stand and here we fight All your
fallen heroes Held and dyed and skinned alive Listen to the Congress fire
Offering the educated primitive and loyal Welcome to the occupation Hang
your collar up inside Hang your freedom higher Listen to the buyer still
Listen to the Congress Where we propagate confusion Primitive and wild Fire
on the hemisphere below Sugar cane and coffee cup Copper, steel and cattle
An annotated history the forest for the fire Where we open up the floodgates
Freedom reigns supreme Fire on the hemisphere below Listen to me Listen to
me Listen to me Listen to me @SONG: EXHUMING MCCARTHY You're beautiful more
beautiful than me You're honorable more honorable than me Loyal to the Bank
of America It's a sign of the times It's a sign of the times You're
sharpening stones, walking on coals To improve your business acumen.
Sharpening stones, walking on coals, To improve your business acumen. Vested
interest united ties, landed gentry rationalize Look who bought the myth, by
jingo, buy America It's a sign of the times it's a sign of the times You're
sharpening stones, walking on coals To improve your business acumen.
Sharpening stones, walking on coals, To improve your business acumen. Enemy
sighted, enemy met, I'm addressing the realpolitik Look who bought the myth,
by jingo, buy America "Let us not assassinate this man further Senator,
you've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have
you left no sense of decency?" You're sharpening stones, walking on coals To
improve your business acumen. Sharpening stones, walking on coals, To
improve your business acumen. Enemy sighted, enemy met, I'm addressing the
realpolitik You've seen start and you've seen quit (I'm addressing the table
of content) I always thought of you as quick Exhuming McCarthy (Meet me at
the book burning) Exhuming McCarthy (Meet me at the book burning) @SONG:
DISTURBANCE AT THE HERON HOUSE (published in NME, sometime in 1989) "They're
going wild," the call came in At early morning pre-dawn, then "The followers
of chaos out of control They're numbering the monkeys The monkeys and the
monkeys," The followers of chaos out of control "They're meeting at the
monument," The call came in the monument To liberty and honor under the
honor roll "They've gathered up the cages the cages and courageous," The
followers of chaos out of control The call came in to Party Central "Meeting
of the green and simple," Try to tell us something we don't know
"Disturbance at the Heron House" A stampede at the monument To liberty and
honor under the honor roll The gathering of grunts and greens Cogs and
grunts and hirelings A meeting of a mean idea to hold "When feeding time has
come and gone They'll lose the heart and head for home Try to tell us
something we don't know" Everyone allowed, Everyone allowed @SONG: STRANGE
(Wire) (lyrics taken from the lyric sheet of Wire's _Pink Flag_) There's
something strange going on tonight There's something going on that's not
quite right Michael's nervous and the lights are bright There's something
going on that's not quite right 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 There's something
going on that wasn't here before Keep your eyes glued to the floor No one's
going to say goodnight There's something going on that's not quite right
@SONG: IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT (AND I FEEL FINE) (from
official lyric sheet) That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and
snakes, an aeroplane - Lenny Bruce is not afraid. Eye of a hurricane, listen
to yourself churn - world serves its own needs, don't misserve your own
needs. Feed it up a knock, speed, grunt no, strength no. Ladder structure
clatter with fear of height, down height. Wire in a fire, represent the
seven games in a government for hire and a combat site. Left her, wasn't
coming in a hurry with the furies breathing down your neck. Team by team
reporters baffled, trump, tethered crop. Look at that low plane! Fine then.
Uh oh, overflow, population, common group, but it'll do. Save yourself,
serve yourself. World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed. Tell
me with the rapture and the reverent in the right - right. You vitriolic,
patriotic, slam, fight, bright light, feeling pretty psyched. It's the end
of the world as we know it. It's the end of the world as we know it. It's
the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine. Six o'clock - TV hour.
Don't get caught in foreign tower. Slash and burn, return, listen to
yourself churn. Lock him in uniform and book burning, blood letting. Every
motive escalate. Automotive incinerate. Light a candle, light a motive. Step
down, step down. Watch a heel crush, crush. Uh oh, this means no fear -
cavalier. Renegade and steer clear! A tournament, a tournament, a tournament
of lies. Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I decline. It's the
end of the world as we know it. It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine. The other night I
tripped a nice continental drift divide. Mount St. Edelite. Leonard
Bernstein. Leonid Breshnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs. Birthday party,
cheesecake, jelly bean, boom! You symbiotic, patriotic, slam, but neck,
right? Right. It's the end of the world as we know it. It's the end of the
world as we know it. It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel
fine...fine... (It's time I had some time alone) @SONG: THE ONE I LOVE This
one goes out to the one I love This one goes out to the one I've left behind
A simple prop to occupy my time This one goes out to the one I love Fire
(she's comin' down on her own, now) This one goes out to the one I love This
one goes out to the one I've left behind Another prop has occupied my time
This one goes out to the one I love @SONG: FIREPLACE Crazy crazy world crazy
crazy times Crazy crazy world crazy crazy times Hang up your chairs to
better sweep Clear the floor to dance Shake the rug into the fireplace 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 Hang up your chairs to better sweep Clear the floor to dance
Throw the chairs into the fireplace Hang up your chairs to better sweep
Clear the floor to dance Throw the walls into the fireplace @SONG: LIGHTNIN'
HOPKINS When I lay myself to sleep pray that I don't go too deep Lightnin'
won Lightnin' won Because it's cold down gold down there, crow! Flat lands
low lands on the track Shows the water pan the track Lightnin' won lightnin'
won Close up hands to silhouette, crow! Lightnin' won, lightnin' won Hound
bark on the track Hound crow hold onto your hat Lightnin' won lightnin' won
Low lands timberlands bad lands bird lands @SONG: KING OF BIRDS A thumbnail
sketch, a jeweler's stone A mean idea to call my own Old man don't lay so
still you're not yet young There's time to teach, point to point, Point
observation, children carry reservations Standing on the shoulders of giants
leaves me cold, leaves me cold. A mean idea to call my own, a hundred
million birds fly Singer sing me a given, singer sing me a song Standing on
the shoulders of giants everybody's looking on (Old don't lay so still
you're not yet young, there's time to teach, point to point, point
observation, children carry reservations). Standing on the shoulders of
giants leaves me cold A mean idea to call my own, a hundred million birds
fly away, away. I am king of all I see, my kingdom for a voice Old man don't
lay so still, you're not yet young There's time to teach, point to point
Point observation, children carry reservations Standing on the shoulders of
giants leaves me cold A mean idea to call my own, a hundred million birds
fly away Everybody hit the ground. Everybody hit the ground. @SONG:
ODDFELLOWS LOCAL 151 Oddfellows local 151 behind the firehouse Where Peewee
sits to prove a sage to teach Peewee gathered up his proof Reached up and
scratched his head Fell down and hit the ground again Firehouse. Firehouse.
Why do the heathens rage 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 rum Firehouse. Firehouse.
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. Firehouse. Firehouse. Firehouse.
Firehouse.
E MOLTI ALTRI ANCORA.
Salutoni.
Jasper Killjoy