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Around the Sun

by R.e.m.

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Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews and awards.
Overall Rating: 2.0353 Around the Sun is ranked overall as 2.0353 out of 4 stars
Avg. Critic Score: 2.1316 Around the Sun has an avg. critic score of 2.1316 out of 4 stars

Around the Sun Lyrics

Lyrics
Disc
Track
Title
1
1
Leaving New York
 
2
Electron Blue
 
3
The Outsiders
 
5
Final Straw
 
6
I Wanted to Be Wrong
 
9
Aftermath
 
10
High Speed Train
 
12
The Ascent of Man
 
13
Around the Sun
Leaving New York
 
  • It's quiet now, and what it brings is everything...
  • Comes calling back a brilliant night, I'm still awake
  • I looked ahead I'm sure I saw you there
  • You don't need me to tell you now, that nothing can compare
  • You might have laughed if I told you
  • You might have hidden the frown
  • You might have succeeded in changing me
  • I might have been turned around
  • It's easier to leave than to be left behind
  • Leaving was never my proud
  • Leaving New York never easy
  • I saw the life fading out
  • Now life is sweet and what it brings I tried to take...
  • The loneliness, it wears me out, it lies in way
  • And on our lost till in my eyes, shadow of necklace across your thigh
  • I might have lived my life in a dream, but i swear, this is real
  • Memory fuses in shatters out glass, but carry your future, forget the past
  • But it's you, it's what i feel.
  • You might have laughed if I told you (it's pulling me apart)
  • You might have hidden the frown (change)
  • You might have succeeded in changing me (it's pulling me apart)
  • I might have been turned around (change)
  • It's easier to leave than to be left behind (it's pulling me apart)
  • Leaving was never my proud (change)
  • Leaving New York never easy (it's pulling me apart)
  • I saw the light fading out
  • You find it in your heart, it's pulling me apart
  • You find it in your heart, change...
  • I told you, forever, I love you, forever (you find it in your heart, it's pulling me apart)
  • I told you ,I love you, I love you, forever (you find it in your heart, change)
  • I told you, forever, I love you, forever (you find it in your heart, it's pulling me apart)
  • I told you, I love you, I love you, forever (you find it in your heart, change)
  • You might have laughed if I told you (forever, forever,I told You, forever)
  • You might have hidden the frown (change)
  • You might have succeeded in changing me (it's pulling me apart)
  • I might have been turned around (change)
  • It's easier to leave than to be left behind (it's pulling me apart)
  • Leaving was never my proud (change)
  • Leaving New York never easy (it's pulling me apart)
  • I saw the life fading out (change)
  • Leaving new york never easy (it's pulling me apart)
  • I saw the light fading out (change)
  • Leaving new york never wasy (it's pulling me apart)
  • I saw the life fading out (change)
Electron Blue
 
  • You're on your ear, the ocean's near.
  • The light has started to fade.
  • Your high is timed,
  • You found the climb
  • It's hard to focus on more than what's
  • In front of you, electron blue.
  • Adventure rings with a page.
  • And when,
  • It dawns on you, it singes blue,
  • Your buzz beginning to wane.
  • Adventure has laid its claim on you
  • It's all you want to do
  • You, you know where to run
  • You run electron blue.
  • And who am I?
  • I'm just a guy.
  • I've got a story like everyone
  • But in your eyes,
  • You looked surprised.
  • And didn't know where to run.
  • I looked to her
  • She's found the cure
  • Her future's already begun.
  • Tomorrow is gaining speed on you
  • It's all you want to do
  • You, you know where to run
  • You run electron blue.
  • You, you know where to run
  • You run electron blue.
  • So bide your time
  • You'll feel the climb
  • Your high it builds like a lightning storm
  • It sings like pearls
  • You know that girl
  • And no one is any the wiser so
  • As if on cue
  • Electron blue
  • Tomorrow is gaining speed on you
  • It's all you want to do
  • You, you know where to run
  • You run electron blue.
  • You, you know where to run
  • You run electron blue.
  • You, you know where to run
  • You run electron blue.
The Outsiders
 
  • You took me to the restaurant where we first met.
  • You knocked a future shock crowbar upside my head.
  • I got caught with the stop of the tick tock, tick tock clock
  • When you told me what you knew.
  • Lost in the moment, the day that the music stopped.
  • And I do remember you.
  • Drawing patterns with a cork on the tablecloth.
  • Promising volcanic change of plot.
  • Where will this lead us? I'm scared of the storm.
  • The outsiders are gathering. a new day is born.
  • I tried to tell you I am not afraid
  • You looked up and saw it all across my face
  • So am I with you or am I against?
  • I don't think it's that easy, we're lost in regret.
  • Now I'm trying to remember the feeling when the music stopped.
  • When you told me what you knew.
  • Lost in the moment, the day that the music stopped.
  • And I do remember you.
  • Drawing patterns with a cork on the tablecloth.
  • Promising volcanic change of plot
  • Where does this leave us, I'm scared of the storm.
  • The outsiders are gathering, a new day is born.
  • Drawing patterns with a cork on the tablecloth.
  • Promising volcanic change of thought
  • Where does this leave us? I'm scared of the storm.
  • The outsiders are gathering, a new day is born.
  • The outsiders are gathering, a new day is born.
  • The outsiders are gathering.
  • A man walks away. when every muscle says to stay.
  • How many yesterdays? they each weigh heavy.
  • Who says what changes may come. who says what we call home.
  • I know you see right through me, my luminescence fades,
  • The dusk provides an antidote, I am not afraid.
  • I've been a million times, in my mind, and this is really just a technicality.
  • Frailty. reality.
  • Uh, It's time to breathe. Time to believe. Let it go and run towards the sea.
  • They don't teach that, they don't know what you mean.
  • They don't understand, they don't know what you mean.
  • They don't get it, I want to scream.
  • I want to breathe again, I want to dream.
  • I want to float a quote from Martin Luther King
  • I am not afraid I am not afraid I am not afraid
  • I am not afraid I am not afraid I am not afraid I am not afraid
Final Straw
 
  • As I raise my head to broadcast my objection
  • As your latest triumph draws the final straw
  • Who died and lifted you up to perfection?
  • And what silenced me is written into law.
  • I can't believe where circumstance has thrown me
  • And I turn my head away
  • If I look I'm not sure that I could face you.
  • Not again. Not today. Not today.
  • If hatred makes a play on me tomorrow
  • And forgiveness takes a back seat to revenge
  • There's a hurt down deep that has not been corrected
  • There's a voice in me that says you will not win.
  • And if I ignore the voice inside,
  • Raise a half glass to my home.
  • But it's there that I am most afraid,
  • And forgetting doesn't hold.
  • It doesn't hold. Now I don't believe and I never did
  • That two wrongs make a right.
  • If the world were filled with the likes of you
  • Then I'm putting up a fight. Putting up a fight.
  • Putting up a fight. Make it right. Make it right.
  • Now love cannot be called into question.
  • Forgiveness is the only hope I hold.
  • And love... love will be my strongest weapon.
  • I do believe that I am not alone.
  • For this fear will not destroy me.
  • And the tears that have been shed
  • It's knowing now where I am weakest
  • And the voice in my head. In my head.
  • Then I raise my voice up higher
  • And I look you in the eye
  • And I offer love with one condition.
  • With conviction, tell me why.
  • Tell me why.
  • Tell me why.
  • Look me in the eye.
  • Tell me why.
I Wanted to Be Wrong
 
  • You know where I come from
  • You know what I feel
  • You're Yul Brenner Westworld
  • Reporting from the field.
  • I threw it into reverse,
  • Made a motion to repeal.
  • You kicked my legs from under me,
  • And tried to take the wheel.
  • I told you I wanted to be wrong,
  • But everyone is humming a song
  • That I don't understand.
  • Now I know that the sun has shined on my side of the street.
  • The basket of America, the weevils and the wheat.
  • The milk and honeyed congregation, scrubbed and apple-cheeked
  • Salute Apollo 13 from the rattle jewelry seats.
  • Mythology's seductive and it turned a trick on me
  • That I have just begun to understand.
  • I told you I wanted to be wrong,
  • But everyone is humming a song
  • That I don't understand.
  • The rodeo is staged, gold circle goat-ropers and clowns.
  • A rumble in the third act, tie 'em up and burn 'em down.
  • We're armed to the teeth, born a little breech;
  • Blue-plate special analysts, cells and SUV's
  • We can't approach the Allies 'cause they seem a little peeved
  • And speak a language we don't understand.
  • I told you I wanted to be wrong
  • But everyone is humming a song
  • That I don't understand.
  • (Prop up The Omega Man, we're primed for victory,
  • God gave us the upper hand, there's honor among thieves.
  • Temper it with arrogance, a dash of sad conceit.
  • The top's down on the T-Bird, we're the children of the free)
  • Storm into the boardroom of the conquering elite.
  • Did you recognize the madman who is shouting in the streets?
  • Destroy the things that I don't understand
  • Destroy the things that I don't understand.
Aftermath
 
  • Now the radio stutters. snaps to life.
  • Some sour song that sets it right.
  • And when London falls
  • He'd like to call
  • But the stars collide.
  • They're beautiful and much maligned.
  • In a universe where you see the worst,
  • And it's up to you to fix it.
  • Now you've worked it out
  • And you see it all
  • And you've worked it out
  • And you see it all
  • And you want to shout
  • How you see it all
  • It's easy to dismiss the "what's it all about" crowd.
  • There is no doubt. it's this, here, now.
  • And you close your eyes.
  • He's not coming back.
  • So you work it out, overfeed the cat.
  • And the plants are dry and they need to drink.
  • So you do your best. and you flood the sink.
  • Sit down in the kitchen and cry.
  • Now you've worked it out
  • And you see it all
  • And you've worked it out
  • And you see it all
  • And you want to shout
  • How you see it all
  • Now the universe left you for a runners lap.
  • It feels like home when it comes crashing back.
  • And it makes you laugh
  • And it makes you cry,
  • When London falls
  • And you're still alive.
  • The radio stutters,
  • It makes you laugh
  • And the aftermath,
  • Open up your eyes.
  • You're so alive.
  • Now you've worked it out
  • And you see it all
  • And you've worked it out
  • And you see it all
  • And you want to shout
  • How you see it all
  • How you've worked it out
  • And you see it all
  • How you've worked it out
  • And you see it all
High Speed Train
 
  • When I look into your eyes.
  • Your drop like an anchor eyes.
  • I scudded and clipped the sky
  • Just shy of making it.
  • And you almost got away.
  • I told you I was afraid.
  • Did I really want to try
  • You're holding me to my claim
  • I jump on a high speed train
  • I'll never look back again
  • I flail like the antelope.
  • Who jumped from the building
  • And you caught me on the sly
  • You've taken me by surprise.
  • You've mirrored my best disguise and
  • Turned it back on me.
  • I jump on a high speed train
  • I'll never look back again
  • I flail like the antelope.
  • Who jumped from the building
  • I jump on a high speed train
  • I'll never look back again
  • To Berlin, Kyoto or Marseilles
  • I'd go anywhere for you
  • I'll bring you a big bouquet
  • I picked it myself today
  • It compliments your eyes
  • There's love at the end of the line
  • I jump on a high speed train
  • I'll never look back again
  • I flail like the antelope.
  • Who jumped from the building
  • I jump on a high speed train
  • I'll never look back again
  • To Berlin, Kyoto or Marseilles
  • I'd go anywhere for you
  • And that's what I always knew
  • I'd like to have hung the moon.
  • I'd wrestle you for a spoon inside your sleeping bag.
  • Just us.
  • No war. no hate. no past.
  • It's real.
  • I'm here. I'm yours. I'm fast.
  • I'm long in the eye
  • I'm cry when I try
  • I just want to fly
  • Just you and I, together
The Ascent of Man
 
  • So hesitation pulled me back
  • I'm stronger when I don't attract
  • In your eyes I'm a lamb without a rack
  • And I am getting confused.
  • I'm a cactus trying to be a canoe.
  • As you pan for ore
  • In the desert, floored,
  • I say to you.
  • That I could never imagine a place so beautiful
  • I could never steal your gold away.
  • Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah...
  • (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.)
  • My book is called "the ascent of man".
  • I marked your chapter with a catamaran.
  • The accent's off,
  • But I am what I am.
  • Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah...
  • (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.)
  • I looked for you, it's my last grandstand.
  • A motorscootered goat legged pan
  • Figure eighting in quicksand...
  • Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah...
  • (I try to walk like a big wham bam
  • I try to float like a telegram sam
  • I came across like a battering ram
  • I'm trying to divine you.)
  • (I try to walk like a big wham bam
  • I try to float like a telegram sam
  • I came across like a battering ram
  • I'm trying to divine you.)
  • So hesitation pulled me back
  • I'm so in love I don't attract.
  • And with my hands tied I won't crack
  • ('cause in my mind I called you back.)
Around the Sun
 
  • I want the sun to shine on me
  • I want the truth to set me free
  • I wish the followers would lead
  • With a voice so strong it could knock me to my knees
  • Hold on world 'cause you don't know what's coming
  • Hold on world 'cause I'm not jumping off
  • Hold onto this boy a little longer
  • Take another trip around the sun
  • If I jumped into the ocean to believe
  • If I climbed a mountain would I have to reach?
  • Do I even dare to speak? - to dream? - believe?
  • Give me a voice so strong
  • I can question what I have seen
  • Hold on world 'cause you don't know what's coming
  • Hold on world 'cause I'm not jumping off
  • Hold onto this boy a little longer
  • Take another trip around the sun
  • Around the sun
  • Around the sun
  • Around the sun
  • Let my dreams set me free.
  • Believe. believe.
  • Now now now now now now

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