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Make It All Okay at Youtube

Hourly R.E.M. Lyrics @remlyricshourly.bsky.social · 1h

So you worked out your excuses,
turned away and shut the door.
The world's too vast for us now,
and you wanted to explore

Song: Make It All Okay
Album: Around The Sun

Hourly R.E.M. Lyrics @remlyricshourly.bsky.social · 2h

I would give my life to find it
I would give it all
Catch me if I fall
All alone
Waiting to fall

Song: Texarkana
Album: Out Of Time

Texarkana at Youtube

Horse to Water at Youtube

Hourly R.E.M. Lyrics @remlyricshourly.bsky.social · 3h

It's not that easy
I am not your horse to water
I hold my breath, I come around, round, round
It's going down, down, down
This runaround, round, round
Is bound to pound
The daylights out of you!

Song: Horse to Water
Album: Accelerate

Hourly R.E.M. Lyrics @remlyricshourly.bsky.social · 4h

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 a fire escape.
I want to tell you how much I hate this.
don't leave that stuff all over me. it pains me.
...
Song: Tongue
Album: Monster

Tongue at Youtube

The Wrong Child at Youtube

Hourly R.E.M. Lyrics @remlyricshourly.bsky.social · 5h

Hey those kids are looking at me
I told my friend myself
Those kids are looking at me
They're laughing and they're running over here
They're laughing and they're running over here
What do I do?
What can I do?
What should I do?
What do I say?
...
Song: The Wrong Child
Album: Green

The Lion Sleeps Tonight at Youtube

Hourly R.E.M. Lyrics @remlyricshourly.bsky.social · 6h

Hush my darling, don't cry my darling, the lion sleeps tonight
Hush my darling, don't cry my darling, the lion sleeps tonight

Song: The Lion Sleeps Tonight
Album: R.E.M. Cover Versions

Hourly R.E.M. Lyrics @remlyricshourly.bsky.social · 7h

Stares conceal
Par-parallels
Neigh-neighbors call
All in all in all in all in all

Song: Romance
Album: Other (Non-Album) R.E.M. Lyrics

Romance at Youtube

Hourly R.E.M. Lyrics @remlyricshourly.bsky.social · 8h

Trust in your calling, make sure your calling's true
Think of others, the others think of you
Silly rule golden words make, practice, practice makes perfect,
Perfect is a fault, and fault lines change

Song: I Believe
Album: Lifes Rich Pageant

I Believe at Youtube

The Ascent of Man at Youtube

Hourly R.E.M. Lyrics @remlyricshourly.bsky.social · 9h

[I try to walk like a big wham bam
I came across like a battering ram
I try to float like a telegram sam
I'm trying to divine you.]

Song: The Ascent of Man
Album: Around The Sun

Tainted Obligation at Youtube

Hourly R.E.M. Lyrics @remlyricshourly.bsky.social · 10h

I saw the shoals at night, with the moon above.
I felt an obligation, and heard your voice again.
If you were here once, you were here a hundred times.
If I reached out tonight, I found I couldn't fight it.
...
Song: Tainted Obligation
Album: Other (Non-Album) R.E.M. Lyrics

Future 40'S (String Of Pearls) at Youtube

Hourly R.E.M. Lyrics @remlyricshourly.bsky.social · 11h

Hey man I'm making moves
and I am so much stronger than you.
I am so much stronger,
I am so much stronger than you.
Everybody thinks the way that we thought,
we thought ahead and look what we got.
I did not invent this world,
...
Song: Future 40'S (String Of Pearls)
Album: R.E.M. Cover Versions

King Of The Road at Youtube

Hourly R.E.M. Lyrics @remlyricshourly.bsky.social · 12h

Trailers for sale or rent
Rooms to let, fifty cents
No cars no pool no pets
I ain't got no cigarettes
It takes four hours of pushin' broom
To buy a four-by-twelve two-bit room
I'm a man, a man by no means
King of the road

Song: King Of The Road
Album: Dead Letter Office

Mine Smell Like Honey at Youtube

Hourly R.E.M. Lyrics @remlyricshourly.bsky.social · 13h

Dig a hole, dig it deeper, deeper!
Climb a mountain, climb it steeper, steeper!
Dig a hole! Dig it deeper, deeper!
Track a trail of honey through it all

Song: Mine Smell Like Honey
Album: Collapse into Now

Letter Never Sent at Youtube

Hourly R.E.M. Lyrics @remlyricshourly.bsky.social · 14h

And it's so far, it's so dark, i'm so lost
And it's so far, it's so far, it's so far

Song: Letter Never Sent
Album: Reckoning

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Hourly R.E.M. Lyrics @remlyricshourly.bsky.social · 15h

the visions you will see.

Song: Be Mine
Album: New Adventures In Hi-Fi

Be Mine at Youtube

Hourly R.E.M. Lyrics @remlyricshourly.bsky.social · 16h

you don't have to take the bar exam to see
what you've done is ignoramus 103
what've I got to hang my hat on
you don't have a pot to pee in
all this just to be your friend
I was there until the end.
extortion and arson, petty larceny

Song: Star 69
Album: Monster

Star 69 at Youtube

Hourly R.E.M. Lyrics @remlyricshourly.bsky.social · 17h

I just have to get that off my chest
Now It's time to give on with the best
All the best
All the best
All the best
All the best, best, best

Song: All the Best
Album: Collapse into Now

All the Best at Youtube

Life And How To Live It at Youtube

Hourly R.E.M. Lyrics @remlyricshourly.bsky.social · 18h

My carpenter's out and running about, talking to the street
My pockets are out and running about
Barking in the street to tell what I have hidden there

Song: Life And How To Live It
Album: Fables Of The Reconstruction

Near Wild Heaven at Youtube

Hourly R.E.M. Lyrics @remlyricshourly.bsky.social · 19h

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.

Song: Near Wild Heaven
Album: Out Of Time

Losing My Religion at Youtube

Hourly R.E.M. Lyrics @remlyricshourly.bsky.social · 20h

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
...
Song: Losing My Religion
Album: Out Of Time

Everybody Hurts at Youtube

Hourly R.E.M. Lyrics @remlyricshourly.bsky.social · 21h

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.

Song: Everybody Hurts
Album: Automatic For The People

Hourly R.E.M. Lyrics @remlyricshourly.bsky.social · 22h

Saturn return when you chase down its moons
throw them into a new gravity

Song: Saturn Return
Album: Reveal

Saturn Return at Youtube

Hourly R.E.M. Lyrics @remlyricshourly.bsky.social · 23h

You'll do fine
You'll do fine
You'll do fine

Song: Beachball
Album: Reveal

Beachball at Youtube

Hourly R.E.M. Lyrics @remlyricshourly.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe tonight you're achin'
For someone you're dreamin' of
Tomorrow you'll be wakin
Into the Arms, into the arms of Love

Song: Arms Of Love
Album: R.E.M. Cover Versions

Arms Of Love at Youtube