It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

R.E.M.

Tom: C

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That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an airplane -
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Lenny Bruce is not afraid. Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn -
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world serves its own needs, regardless of your own needs. Feed it up a knock,
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speed, grunt no, strength no. Ladder structure clatter with fear of height,
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down height. Wire in a fire, represent the seven games in a government for
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hire and a combat site. Left her, wasn't coming in a hurry with the furies
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breathing down your neck. Team by team reporters baffled, trump, tethered
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crop. Look at that low plane! Fine then. Uh oh, overflow, population,
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common group, but it'll do. Save yourself, serve yourself. World serves its
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own needs, listen to your heart bleed. Tell me with the rapture and the
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reverent in the right - right. You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright
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light, feeling pretty psyched.

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It's the end of the world as we know it.
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It's the end of the world as we know it.
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It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.


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Six o'clock - TV hour. Don't get caught in foreign tower. Slash and burn,
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return, listen to yourself churn. Lock him in uniform and book burning,
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blood letting. Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate. Light a candle,
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light a motive. Step down, step down. Watch a heel crush, crush. Uh oh,
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this means no fear - cavalier. Renegade and steer clear! A tournament,
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a tournament, a tournament of lies. Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives
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and I decline.

          G          Dsus2       Am
It's the end of the world as we know it.
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It's the end of the world as we know it.
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It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.

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          G          Dsus2       Am
It's the end of the world as we know it.
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It's the end of the world as we know it.
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It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.

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The other night I tripped a nice continental drift divide. Mount St. Edelite.
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Leonard Bernstein. Leonid Breshnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs.
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Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom! You symbiotic, patriotic,
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slam, but neck, right? Right.

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It's the end of the world as we know it. (It's time I had some time alone)
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It's the end of the world as we know it. (It's time I had some time alone)
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It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone)
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and I feel fine.

          G          Dsus2       Am
It's the end of the world as we know it. (It's time I had some time alone)
          G          Dsus2       Am
It's the end of the world as we know it. (It's time I had some time alone)
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It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone)
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and I feel fine.