Radio Paradise (mobile)

That's great, it starts with an earthquake
Birds and snakes, an aeroplane, and 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
The ladder starts to clatter with a fear of height, down, height
Wire in a fire, represent the seven games
And 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, trumped, tethered, cropped
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, book burning, bloodletting
Every motive escalate, automotive incinerate
Light a candle, light a motive, step down, step down
Watch your heel crush, crush, uh-oh
This means no fear, cavalier, renegade and steering 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 (I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine (It's time I had some time alone)
I feel fine (I feel fine)
It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine (It's time I had some time alone)
The other night I dreamt a nice continental drift divide
Mountains sit in a line, Leonard Bernstein
Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce, and Lester Bangs
Birthday party, cheesecake, jellybean, boom
You symbiotic, patriotic, slam but neck, right? Right
It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine (It's time I had some time alone)
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 (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine (It's time I had some time alone)
(It's time I had some time alone)

Lazarus Apr 14, 2013 - 19:34	marvelous!!!! love this song!!!! [ Reply ]
unclehud Mar 25, 2013 - 13:42	Exactly! It's the end of the world and I'm dancing! [ Reply ]
kingart Mar 25, 2013 - 13:42	I want to know how he remembers all those lyrics. Surely one of rock's most challenging speed-word drills. [ Reply ]
turmtoto Mar 25, 2013 - 13:41	awesome song, i love it [ Reply ]
Lazarus Jan 10, 2013 - 16:02	kcar wrote: Feeling rapturous, are we? Everybody in my church be dancing wantonly... [ Reply ]
kcar Jan 06, 2013 - 22:41	Lazarus wrote: Everybody in my church loves this song!!!! Feeling rapturous, are we? [ Reply ]
Lazarus Jan 06, 2013 - 22:40	Everybody in my church loves this song!!!! [ Reply ]
ninamo Dec 21, 2012 - 11:00	KevinM wrote: perfect! ;-) [ Reply ]
rtrudeau Dec 21, 2012 - 11:00	R.E.M. knows more than the Mayans. [ Reply ]
martinelle Dec 21, 2012 - 10:59	Perfect timing. Thank you! [ Reply ]
gratefulgator Dec 21, 2012 - 10:59	Great choice, just as I turned to my co-workers to mention that today is supposed to be the end of the world... noticed this in the background... I too feel fine. [ Reply ]
Zeito Dec 21, 2012 - 10:58	Ahh ha ha ha. I see what you did there... [ Reply ]
KevinM Dec 20, 2012 - 09:05	[ Reply ]
iam_overlord Dec 10, 2012 - 07:03	We didn't start the fire... [ Reply ]
1wolfy Dec 06, 2012 - 13:42	soon it will be 12-12-12....pretty cool [ Reply ]
treatment_bound Nov 16, 2012 - 14:00	treatment_bound wrote: But they will live on via the the reissues. Here's the bonus disc from the 25th anniv. release of Document coming out this fall: 25th anniversary bonus disc, recorded live in Utrecht, Holland – September 14, 1987 "Finest Worksong" – 4.20 "These Days" – 3.36 "Lightnin' Hopkins" – 3.43 "Welcome to the Occupation" – 2.52 "Driver 8" – 4.15 "Feeling Gravity's Pull" – 5.00 "I Believe" – 4.28 "The One I Love" – 4.38 "Exhuming McCarthy" – 3.23 "Wolves, Lower" – 4.23 "Fall On Me" – 3.05 "Just a Touch" – 3.12 "Oddfellows Local 151" – 5.34 "Little America" – 2.50 "Its the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" – 4.01 "Begin the Begin" – 4.32 "Disturbance at the Heron House" – 3.42 "Moral Kiosk" – 3.02 "Life and How to Live It" – 4.59 "So. Central Rain" – 5.35 I just picked up the reissue. The live show disc is awesome. I saw them in '86 and again in '89, but I missed this tour, and it's great to hear live versions of some of the Document deep cuts, as they didn't play too many of them again after Green came out. [ Reply ]
treatment_bound Oct 22, 2012 - 09:29	coding_to_music wrote: Is this band still around? Sigh, nooooo But they will live on via the the reissues. Here's the bonus disc from the 25th anniv. release of Document coming out this fall: 25th anniversary bonus disc, recorded live in Utrecht, Holland – September 14, 1987 "Finest Worksong" – 4.20 "These Days" – 3.36 "Lightnin' Hopkins" – 3.43 "Welcome to the Occupation" – 2.52 "Driver 8" – 4.15 "Feeling Gravity's Pull" – 5.00 "I Believe" – 4.28 "The One I Love" – 4.38 "Exhuming McCarthy" – 3.23 "Wolves, Lower" – 4.23 "Fall On Me" – 3.05 "Just a Touch" – 3.12 "Oddfellows Local 151" – 5.34 "Little America" – 2.50 "Its the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" – 4.01 "Begin the Begin" – 4.32 "Disturbance at the Heron House" – 3.42 "Moral Kiosk" – 3.02 "Life and How to Live It" – 4.59 "So. Central Rain" – 5.35 [ Reply ]
skooba Oct 08, 2012 - 13:19	A happy fun song about the end of the world. Homer Simpson does a kick @$$ version of this. [ Reply ]
Aud Sep 07, 2012 - 00:00	Proclivities wrote: Huh? Generally, 1979 preceded 1987 (the year of this album). " Rapper's Delight " was also from 1979, plus artist like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron were doing rhythmic, spoken-word-over-a-beat stuff in the 1960s. Anyhow, this is still a great tune. And Bob Dylan did a "beat poet" song in the 60's with a woman making non-sexual sounds in the background. "If dogs run free, why not we?" [ Reply ]
Proclivities Aug 06, 2012 - 12:29	hbs47 wrote: +1 First rap song? A forum I looked at suggested Blondie - Rapture, that was '79 , I guess REM were ahead again ? Huh? Generally, 1979 preceded 1987 (the year of this album). " Rapper's Delight " was also from 1979, plus artist like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron were doing rhythmic, spoken-word-over-a-beat stuff in the 1960s. Anyhow, this is still a great tune. [ Reply ]