Lyrics: Tongue Album: Monster Artist: REM   call my name, here I come. 90 to nothing, watch me run. you call. I am ashamed to say. ugly girls know their fate. anybody can get laid. you want a room with…

Lyrics: I Took Your Name Album: Monster Artist: REM   I wore the clothes you wanted I took your name If there is some confusion, who’s to blame? I signed your living will I smiled your face I’m ready to…

Lyrics: Man on the Moon Album: Automatic for the People Artist: REM   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…

Lyrics: Perfect Circle Album: Murmur Artist: REM   Put your hair back, we get to leave Eleven gallows on your sleeve Shallow figure, winner’s paid Eleven shadows way out of place Standing too soon, shoulders high in the room Standing…

Lyrics: Hairshirt Album: Green Artist: REM   I am not the type of dog That could keep you waiting For no good reason Run a carbon-black test on my jaw And you will find it’s all been said before I…

Lyrics: World Leader Pretend Album: Green Artist: REM   I sit at my table and wage war on myself It seems like it’s all…it’s all for nothing I know the barricades, and I know the mortar in the wall breaks…

Lyrics: Little America Album: Reckoning Artist: REM   I can’t see myself at thirty, I don’t buy a lacquered thirty Caught like flies, preserved for tomorrow’s jewelery, again Lighted in the amber yard, a green shellback, green shellback Preserved for…

Lyrics: Turn You Inside Out Album: Green Artist: REM   Divide your cultured pearls in haste I’m looking for to lay to waste Of all the things I cannot taste and this not the racy race They spoke loud I…

Lyrics: The One I Love Album: Document Artist: REM   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…

Lyrics: Binky the Doormat Album: New Adventures in Hi-Fi Artist: REM   This is horror movie stuff. the muffin is peach, you’re ‘makin’ love’. you mean this opera involves handcuffs? I lay defeated. yeah, sour milk mouth, horseradish sweet. she’s…