Lyrics: Time After Time (annelise) Album: Reckoning Artist: R.E.M.   (berry/buck/mills/stipe) Ask the girl of the hour by the water tower’s watch If your friends took a fall, are you obligated to follow (chorus) Time after, time after time When…

Lyrics: Nightswimming Album: Automatic For The People Artist: R.E.M.   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…

Lyrics: Parakeet Album: Unknown Artist: R.E.M.   (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…

Lyrics: All The Way To Reno Album: In Time: The Best Of R.E.M. 1988-2003 Artist: R.E.M.   hummin’ all the way to Reno you’ve dusted the non-believers and challenged the laws of chance now sweeter you’re so sugar sweet you…

Lyrics: Electrolite Album: In Time: The Best Of R.E.M. 1988-2003 Artist: R.E.M.   Your eyes are burning holes through me. I’m gasoline. I’m burnin’ clean. Twentieth century go to sleep. You’re Pleistocene. That is obscene. That is obscene. You are…

Lyrics: Underneath The Bunker Album: Lifes Rich Pageant Artist: R.E.M.   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…

Lyrics: Hope Album: Up Artist: R.E.M.   You want to go out Friday 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…

Lyrics: Crazy Album: Dead Letter Office Artist: R.E.M.   (bewley/briscoe/crowe/lachowski) You’re funny and you don’t know why You’re funny and you can’t even cry You’re funny and you don’t know why You’re funny and you don’t even try (chorus) Cause…

Lyrics: Why Not Smile Album: Up Artist: R.E.M.   The concrete broke your fall 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…

Lyrics: Disturbance At The Heron House Album: Document Artist: R.E.M.   "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…