R.E.M. - Up Album Lyrics
R.E.M. Lyrics
Up Lyrics
- Airportman
- Lotus
- Suspicion
- Hope
- At My Most Beautiful
- The Apologist
- Sad Professor
- You're In The Air
- Walk Unafraid
- Why Not Smile
- Daysleeper
- Diminished
- I'm Not Over You
- Parakeet
- Falls To Climb
Airportman Lyrics
He moves efficiently The people mover
Hey hey. I was hell. So happy to show us Storefront window, I reflect. So happy to show us Let it rain, rain, rain So happy to show us
Now my suspicion's on the rise Can't you see Imagination Listen to the devils in my ear. Can't you see Imagination Look into my eyes. My eyes are blurred Please don't speak Imagination Step down, I'll dream
You want to go out Friday You want to trust the doctors You want to trust religion You want to climb the ladder
I've found a way to make you smile I read bad poetry I've found a way to make you smile At my most beautiful I've found a way to make you smile
They call me the apologist. Did you understand me right? I live a simple life Thank you for being there for me. I live a simple life
If we're talking about love Late afternoon, the house is hot. This may be a lit invention Late afternoon, the house is hot. Dear readers, my apologies. Late afternoon, the house is hot.
You wanted a challenge I'm what you found Brighten the stars I'm what you found I want the stars to know they've won I'm what you found
As the sun comes up, as the moon goes down Say "keep within the boundaries if you want to play."
The concrete broke your fall I would do anything
Receiving department, 3 a.m. Hong Kong is present I see today with a newsprint fray I'm the screen, the blinding light I see today with a newsprint fray I cried the other night I'm the screen, the blinding light I see today with a newsprint fray
I watched you fall. I will give my best today Maybe I'm crazy I will give my best today I watched you fall. I will give my best today
I feel great. I lied to save your feelings.
You wake up in the morning Open the window A broken wrist The tectonic dispatcher shifts You wake up in the morning Open the window
I'll take the position Who cast the final stone? A punch toy volunteer Who cast the final stone? Gentlemen mark your opponents
Who cast the final stone? Me. I am free. Free.
Beyond security.
Great opportunity
awaits.
Airport fluorescent
Creature of habit
Labored breathing and
sallow skin
Recycled air
Moving Sideways
Great opportunity
blinks.
Great opportunity blinks.
Discounted.
The people mover
Discounted.
Lotus Lyrics
Hey hey.
Sarcastic silver swell
That day it rained
Tough spun.
Hard worn. 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.
I ate the lotus.
Say haven't you noticed?
I ate
the lotus
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
...and I feel fine.
Let it rain, rain, rain.
Bring my happy back
again.
I ate the lotus.
Say haven't you noticed?
I ate
the lotus
Save me from my self 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
Bring my happy back again
I ate the lotus
So haven't you noticed?
I ate
the lotus
I ate the lotus
I ate the lotus
Suspicion Lyrics
I have known, I have known your
kind.
Please don't talk, don't make me think
Order up another drink
Let
me let my imagination drive.
I need
Nothing too deep.
Come alive
Suspicion
Tonight, I'll dream tonight.
Tell me what, what I want to
hear
You're so funny, you're so fine.
You're so perfect, you're so
mine.
That I'd never had an opportunity
To hide
No I never had a
chance
I need
Nothing too deep.
Come alive
Suspicion
Tonight, I'll dream tonight.
They hypnotize.
The lights, the drinks.
Let the
music carry you away
My sights are limited
Am I sensing a familiar
twinge?
Make me think
It's all too deep
Come alive
Suspicion
Step down, I'll dream tonight.
You're so naked baby
Carry me away
Dream,
Dream
Hope Lyrics
And you want to go forever.
You know that it
sounds childish
That you've dreamt of alligators.
You hope that we are all
with you
And you hope that you're recognized
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.
Their procedure is the best
But the last
try was a failure
And the intern was a mess.
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
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
Your thinking don't be frightened
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,
The 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.
You
want to climb the ladder
You want to see forever.
You want to go out
Friday
You want to go forever.
At My Most Beautiful Lyrics
I've found a way
A way to make you
smile
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.
I've found a way
A way to make you
smile
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 though I saw a smile.
I've found a way
A way to make you
smile
The Apologist Lyrics
And now that I'm at peak.
You know at first
it really hurt.
We joke about these things.
I've skirted all my
differences
But now I'm facing up.
I wanted to apologize for everything I
was.
So.
I'm sorry, so sorry...
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 feel regret,
I get down on me
knees and pray.
I'm sorry, so sorry...
Unfettered by complex sweets.
You think this isn't
me?
Don't be weak.
There I go.
I'm so sorry.
Thank you for listening, goodbye.
I
can forfeit selfishness
I hope that you can apply
This happiness
This
peacefulness
I'm sorry, so sorry...
Unfettered by complex sweets.
You think this isn't
me?
That's so sweet.
I'm so sorry.
Sad Professor Lyrics
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.
I started, I jumped up.
Everyone
hates a bore.
Everybody hates a drunk.
Professors muddled in their intent
To try
to rope in followers
To float their malcontent.
As for this reader,
I'm
already spent.
I started, I jumped up.
Everyone
hates a sad professor.
I hate where I wound up.
I'm drifting in and out of sleep.
Long
silence presents the tragedies
Of love. Not the age. Get afraid.
The
surface hazy with attendant thoughts.
A lazy eye metaphor on the rock.
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.
You're In The Air Lyrics
That's calling you higher
I landed on my feet
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 upside down
You're in the air
You're in the
air
And I am breathing
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 upside down
You're in the air
You're in the
air
And I am breathing
If only to beguile
The sky has
opened up again
In heaven 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 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
Walk Unafraid Lyrics
These heavy notions creep
around
It makes me think, long ago
I was brought into this life a little
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
Walk unafraid
I'll be clumsy instead
Hold my love or leave me
high.
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
charade
Shred this sad masquerade
I don't need no persuading
I'll trip,
fall, pick myself up and
Walk unafraid
I'll be clumsy instead
Hold my
love or leave me high.
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
Walk unafraid
I'll be clumsy instead
Hold my love or leave me
high.
Walk unafraid
I'll be clumsy instead
Hold my love or leave me
high.
Why Not Smile Lyrics
To hear you speak of it
I'd have done
anything
I would do anything
I feel like a cartoon brick wall
To hear
you speak of it
You've been so sad
It makes me worry
Why not
smile?
You've been sad for a while.
Why not smile?
To hear you speak of it.
Why not smile?
You've
been sad for a while.
You've been sad for a while.
Daysleeper Lyrics
Staff cuts have socked up the
overage
Directives are posted.
No callbacks, complaints.
Everywhere is
calm.
Taipei awakes
All talk of circadian rhythm
My night is colored headache
grey
Daysleeper
They're leading the blind with their international glories
I'm the screen, I work at night.
My night is colored headache
grey
Don't wake me with so much.
Daysleeper.
I can't even say why
Fluorescent flat caffeine
lights
Its furious balancing
I'm the screen, I work at night
My night is colored headache
grey
Don't wake me with so much.
The ocean machine is set to nine
I'll
squeeze into heaven and valentine
My bed is pulling
me,
Gravity
Daysleeper. Daysleeper.
Daysleeper. Daysleeper. Daysleeper
Diminished Lyrics
I think I pushed.
Maybe I'm crazy
Maybe
diminished
Maybe I'm innocent
Maybe I'm finished
Maybe I blacked
out.
How do I play this?
I will give myself away
I have never hurt
anything
Is the jury wavering?
Do they know I sing?
Maybe diminished
How do I,
How do I play
this?
Protective brother, chemical
dependence
I'll consult the i-ching
I'll consult the TV
Ouija, oblique
strategies.
I'll consult the law books for precedents.
Can I charm the
jury?
I will give myself away
I have never hurt
anything
Is the justice wavering?
Do they know I sing That song? Sing
along
Sing along
Sing along
(I will never hurt anything)
Maybe they'll see me,
Maybe they'll say,
"I can
see the truth in his statement.
Smallpox blanket. No way."
Can I charm the
jury, my defense? Maybe I'm crazy
Maybe diminished
Maybe I love
you
Baby I loved you
Baby I loved you
Baby I loved you
Baby I'm
finished.
I will give myself away
I have never hurt
anything
Is the justice wavering?
Do they know I sing That song? Sing
along
Sing along
Sing along
(I will never hurt anything)
I have
given myself away
I will give my best today
I have never hurt
anything
Is the justice wavering?
Does she know I loved you?
Does she
know I loved you?
Does she know I sing?
I'm Not Over You Lyrics
Truth convened, my head
smashed through the ceiling
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.
Parakeet Lyrics
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 parakeet
Who's colored
bitter lime.
And lift into your dreams
lately, baby
you can
barely breathe.
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 shotwave
radio
It's tracking outer rings.
To smooth the ocean floor
And flattens
out to warmer winds
Of Brisbane's sunny shore.
Where Buddhas tend to
mending wrists
A tea made from the leaves
Of eucalyptus fragrances
And
coriander seeds.
To warm Pacific breeze
Where mean cats chew
on licorice
And cannot climb the trees.
And lift into a dreams
Baby, baby
Baby starts to
breathe
Falls To Climb Lyrics
Assume the missionary part
You work by
committee,
You had me pegged from the start.
I'll pounce pony,
Phony
maroney,
Pony before the cart.
I'll pounce pony,
This ceremony
Only
fills my heart.
Who threw the crushing blow?
Someone has to
take the fall
Why not me?
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 strength, my destiny
This is the role that I
have chosen.
Who threw the crushing blow?
Someone has to
take the fall
Why not me?
Why not me?
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
Who threw the crushing blow?
Someone has to
take the fall
Why not me? Why not me.
Had consequence chose
differently
Had fate its ugly head
My actions make me beautiful
And
dignify the flesh