![]() Document (1987) [ larger cover art ] |
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 (Bethany) | Posted: Apr 14, 2013 - 19:34 marvelous!!!! love this song!!!! | |||
| unclehud (now 50 feet above the planet in Boston) | Posted: Mar 25, 2013 - 13:42 ![]() | |||
| kingart (Brooklyn NY) | Posted: 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. | |||
| turmtoto (Germany) | Posted: Mar 25, 2013 - 13:41 awesome song, i love it | |||
| Lazarus (Bethany) | Posted: Jan 10, 2013 - 16:02 kcar wrote: Feeling rapturous, are we? Everybody in my church be dancing wantonly... | |||
| kcar | Posted: Jan 06, 2013 - 22:41 Lazarus wrote: Everybody in my church loves this song!!!! Feeling rapturous, are we? | |||
| Lazarus (Bethany) | Posted: Jan 06, 2013 - 22:40 Everybody in my church loves this song!!!! | |||
| ninamo | Posted: Dec 21, 2012 - 11:00 KevinM wrote: perfect! ;-) ![]() | |||
| rtrudeau (Bay Area, California) | Posted: Dec 21, 2012 - 11:00 R.E.M. knows more than the Mayans. | |||
| martinelle (Corvallis, Oregon) | Posted: Dec 21, 2012 - 10:59 Perfect timing. Thank you! | |||
| gratefulgator (San Francisco CA) | Posted: 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. ![]() | |||
| Zeito (Sieur du Lhut) | Posted: Dec 21, 2012 - 10:58 Ahh ha ha ha. I see what you did there... | |||
| KevinM (Long Beach, Ca) | Posted: Dec 20, 2012 - 09:05 ![]() | |||
| iam_overlord (Brighton, MA) | Posted: Dec 10, 2012 - 07:03 We didn't start the fire... | |||
| 1wolfy (Mission Viejo California) | Posted: Dec 06, 2012 - 13:42 soon it will be 12-12-12....pretty cool | |||
| treatment_bound (Duluth to Madison) | Posted: 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
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. | |||
| treatment_bound (Duluth to Madison) | Posted: 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
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| skooba (The tip of Americas Wang) | Posted: Oct 08, 2012 - 13:19 A happy fun song about the end of the world. Homer Simpson does a kick @$$ version of this. | |||
| Aud (lost in lakecity) | Posted: 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?" | |||
| Proclivities (Carrboro, NC) | Posted: 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. | |||
| TerryS (Another SW) | Posted: Aug 02, 2012 - 19:29 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, dummy serve your own needs. Feed it off an aux speak, grunt No strength the ladder starts to clatter with the fear, fight down height. Wire in a fire, representing seven games with a government for hire and a combat site. Left of West and coming in a hurry with the furies breathing down your neck. Team by team reporters baffled, trump, tethered crop. Look at that low playing! Fine then. Uh oh, overflow, population, common food, but it'll do. Save yourself, serve yourself. World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed. Dummy 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. < Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/r/rem/its+the+end+of+the+world+as+we+know+it_10240320.html > Six o'clock - TV hour. Don't get caught in foreign towers. Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself churn. Locking in uniforming, book burning, blood letting. Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate. Light a candle, light a votive. Step down, step down. Watch your heel crush, crush. Uh oh, This means no fear - cavalier. Renegade, steer 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. 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. The other night I dreamt of knives, continental drift divide. Mountains sit in a line Leonard Bernstein. Leonid Breshnev, Lester Bangs and Lenny Bruce. Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom! You symbiotic, patriotic, slam book neck, right? Right. 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... fine... (It's time I had some time alone, It's time I had some time alone, It's time I had some time alone I feel fine...) < BEGIN STANDARD TAG - 160 x 600 - LyricsFreak: Lyric Pages - DO NOT MODIFY > | |||
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Jul 02, 2012 - 08:46 ![]() | |||
| hbs47 (SE England) | Posted: Jul 02, 2012 - 08:45 romeotuma wrote: brilliant song... love it madly... +1 First rap song? A forum I looked at suggested Blondie - Rapture, that was '79 , I guess REM were ahead again? | |||
| RoelantSiekman (Rotterdam, The Netherlands) | Posted: Jul 02, 2012 - 08:44 the only REM song that rocks! and the only one deserving 6+/10 (i.c. 8/10) | |||
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: May 31, 2012 - 11:00 brilliant song... love it madly... | |||
| sirdroseph (Yes) | Posted: May 31, 2012 - 10:59 Used to be a good song, I guess but who knows when it is has been crammed down our throats soooooo many times it doesn't even matter whether it is actually good or not. I am so glad I am not listening. | |||
| mcullers (Country-Dominated TX) | Posted: May 31, 2012 - 10:53 Another in the long list of great songs killed by karaoke | |||
| smackiepipe (Western North Carolina) | Posted: May 31, 2012 - 10:52 Yeah, I liked it back in late 80s... I'd rather hear Stairway to Heaven over this, now. | |||
| grogg | Posted: May 31, 2012 - 10:52 It's the end of the month as we know it. | |||
| iTuner | Posted: May 03, 2012 - 12:53 kingart wrote: Even if you're not a hardcore REM fan — I'm not — this song just grabs you and doesn't let go. Classic. Is this a 9? No, not even close. It held our attention a while ago, but as a song, 6? 5? | |||
| Stingray ("ANONYMOUS INTERNET") | Posted: May 03, 2012 - 12:44 romeotuma wrote: Everybody in my hotel room loves this song... Anybody in bed is bored...(and it's not about me)! | |||
| kingart (Brooklyn NY) | Posted: May 03, 2012 - 12:43 Stipe is officially some kind of genius lyric machine for remembering all this stuff! A fun, snarky, playful, really awesome song! Even if you're not a hardcore REM fan — I'm not — this song just grabs you and doesn't let go. Classic. Is this a 9? | |||
| Stingray ("ANONYMOUS INTERNET") | Posted: May 03, 2012 - 12:43 THE NEW AMERICAN ANTHEM, I ASSUME! and 300 millions Ami's start singing: "it's the end of the world as we know it...!
hahaha | |||
| RipperP (Greater New York Metro) | Posted: May 03, 2012 - 12:42 Actually been a while since I've played this. Excellent ear candy. Thanks. | |||
| Stingray ("ANONYMOUS INTERNET") | Posted: May 03, 2012 - 12:41 Who stole the "RAP" part from whom? | |||
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Apr 29, 2012 - 17:30 kurtster wrote: Finally got to catch it this go round. Love it ... Yeah, man... this classic is awesome! | |||
| kurtster (Back in Ohiya, for now ...) | Posted: Apr 01, 2012 - 19:44 Finally got to catch it this go round. Love it ... | |||
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Apr 01, 2012 - 19:43 This song is soooo good it puts a spring in my step this spring night... | |||
| kirbyc | Posted: Jan 25, 2012 - 14:39 This reminds of the scene in the car from Tommy Boy where Chris Farley and David Spade attempt to sing along... | |||
| LizK (Houston, Texas) | Posted: Jan 25, 2012 - 14:35
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| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Oct 26, 2011 - 08:36 Snoopy2 wrote: Da best Indeed... this song rocks... love it... | |||
| ericeobrien | Posted: Oct 26, 2011 - 08:32 It's time I had some time alone. | |||
| MiracleDrug (Earth) | Posted: Oct 26, 2011 - 08:31 <<<<detects a theme... | |||
| Snoopy2 (A Snoopy Sanctuary) | Posted: Oct 22, 2011 - 12:36 Da best | |||
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Oct 22, 2011 - 12:34 Everybody in my hotel room loves this song... | |||
| coding_to_music (Beantown) | Posted: Sep 24, 2011 - 16:17 Is this band still around? Sigh, nooooo | |||
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Sep 24, 2011 - 16:16 What a classic! Love it! | |||
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Sep 20, 2011 - 21:00 errantpenny wrote: Yes, you got it... he did a good job editing Dangerous Visions, too, in my opinion... love this song... | |||
| hencini | Posted: Sep 20, 2011 - 20:55 In my youth, this would have been a 9 or 10. It's still a strong, strong 8. : ) | |||
| sbegf (Manchester, Maryland) | Posted: Aug 24, 2011 - 07:21 First time I heard this song, I was driving around my home town during the beginning of a huge thunderstorm.....sky dark in the middle of the day, leaves blowing everywhere in all directions, sideways rain...it was perfect! :) |




