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Monster
by R.e.m.
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Overall Rating:
2.8069
Avg. Critic Score:
2.9500
Monster Lyrics
Lyrics
Disc
Track
Title
- "What's the frequency, Kenneth?" is your Benzedrine, uh-huh
- I was brain-dead, locked out, numb, not up to speed
- I thought I'd pegged you an idiot's dream
- Tunnel vision from the outsider's screen
- I never understood the frequency, uh-huh
- You wore our expectations like an armored suit, uh-huh
- I'd studied your cartoons, radio, music, TV, movies, magazines
- Richard said, "Withdrawal in disgust is not the same as apathy"
- A smile like the cartoon, tooth for a tooth
- You said that irony was the shackles of youth
- You wore a shirt of violent green, uh-huh
- I never understood the frequency, uh-huh
- "What's the frequency, Kenneth?" is your Benzedrine, uh-huh
- Butterfly decal, rear-view mirror, dogging the scene
- You smile like the cartoon, tooth for a tooth
- You said that irony was the shackles of youth
- You wore a shirt of violent green, uh-huh
- I never understood the frequency, uh-huh
- You wore our expectations like an armored suit, uh-huh
- I couldn't understand
- You said that irony was the shackles of youth, uh-huh
- I couldn't understand
- You wore a shirt of violent green, uh-huh
- I couldn't understand
- I never understood, don't fuck with me, uh-huh
- I know you
- I know you've seen her
- She's a sad tomato
- She's three miles of bad road
- Walking down the street
- Will I never meet her?
- She's a real woman child
- Oh my kiss breath turpentine
- I am smitten
- I'm the real thing (I'm the real thing)
- Have you seen her come around?
- My crush with eyeliner
- I'm in like.
- I'm in-fatuated.
- It's all too much-the pressure
- She's all that I can take
- What position should I wear?
- Cop an attitude? - You faker
- How can I convince her? - Faker
- That I'm invented too, yeah
- I am smitten
- I'm the real thing (I'm the real thing)
- We all invent ourselves and,
- Uh, you know me
- She's a sad tomato
- She's three miles of bad road
- She's her own invention
- That gets me in the throat
- What can I make myself be?
- Life is strange, yeah life is strange
- What can I make myself be - Faker
- To make her mine?
- I am smitten
- I'll do anything (I'll do anything)
- Oh kiss breath turpentine
- My crush with eyeliner
- I am smitten
- And you know me, yeah
- You know me
- I could be your Frankenstein
- My crush with eyeliner
- I am smitten
- I'm the real thing (I'm the real thing)
- Won't you be my valentine?
- My crush with eyeliner
- Make your money with a suit and tie
- Make your money with shrewd denial
- Make your money expert advice,
- If you can wing it
- Make your money with a power ply
- Make your money with a buyout bribe
- Make it lie as long as you mean it
- I'm not king of comedy,
- Grease the pig, give a squeeze (squeeze me)
- Make your money with exploitation
- Make it holy illumination
- Say a prayer at every station
- Don't forget to ask for mercy
- Make your money with a pretty face
- Make it easy with product placement
- Make it charged with controversy
- I'm straight, I'm queer, I'm bi
- I'm not king of comedy,
- I'm not your magazine,
- I'm not your television
- Make your money, make it rich
- Make it young and make it quick
- Make your money on the jukebox, baby,
- It's pick up sticks,
- Make your enemies make your moves
- Make your critics fumble through
- Make it smart and make it schmooze
- Make it look easy
- I'm not king of comedy,
- I'm not your magazine,
- I'm not your television,
- I'm not your movie screen
- I'm not commodity (all together now)
- I'm not commodity
- I'm not commodity
- I'm looking for an interruption,
- Do you believe?
- You looking to dig my dreams
- Be prepared for anything
- You come into my little scene
- Hooray hooray hip hip hooray
- There's one thing I can guarantee:
- You won't have to dig, dig too deep
- Said leave me to lay, but touch me deep,
- I don't sleep, I dream
- I'll settle for a cup of coffee, but you know what I really need
- Are you looking to drive my dreams?
- You here to run my screens?
- You come, deliver my demons
- Hooray hooray hip hip hooray
- Are you coming to ease my headache?
- Do you give good head?
- Am I good in bed?
- I don't know, I guess so
- I don't sleep, I dream
- I'll settle for a cup of coffee, but you know what I really need
- I'm looking for an interruption,
- Can you believe?
- Some medicine for my headache
- Hooray hooray hip hip hooray
- I'm pitching for a new direction
- Pinch me when I wake
- Don't tell me my dreams are fake
- You leave me to lay, you touch me deep,
- I don't sleep, I dream
- I'll settle for a cup of coffee, but you know what I really need
- Leave me to lay, but touch me deep,
- I don't sleep, I dream
- I'll settle for a cup of coffee, but you know what I really need
- 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
- I know you called - I know you called - I know you called -
- I know you called - I know you called - I know you hung up my line
- Star 69
- I know all about the warehouse fire
- I know squirrelys didn't chew the wires
- 3 people have my number
- The other 2 were with me.
- I don't like to tell-tell but I'm not your patsy.
- This time you have gone too far with me.
- I know you called - I know you called - I know you called -
- I know you called - I know you called - I know you hung up my line
- Star 69
- Why'd you put your quarter down on me?
- This reads like some dork inside edition hard copy.
- I can't be your character witness
- I can't be your alibi
- Doorbell rings it's the FBI
- We learned spy vs. spy
- You my friend, are guilty as can be.
- I know you called - I know you called - I know you called -
- I know you called - I know you called - I know you hung up my line
- Star 69
- I don't know why you are mean to me
- When I call on the telephone.
- And I don't know what you mean to me
- But I want to turn you on, turn you up, figure you out, I want to take you on
- These words, "You will be mine."
- These words, "You will be mine."
- All the time.
- Now fool might be my middle name
- But I'd be foolish not to say
- I'm going to make whatever it takes,
- Ring you up, call you down, sign your name, secret love,
- Make it rhyme, take you in, and make you mine.
- These words, "You will be mine."
- These words, "You will be mine." all the time. oh
- I tripped and fell. did I fall.
- What I want to feel, I want to feel it now
- You know with love come strange currencies
- And here is my appeal:
- I need a chance, a second chance, a third chance, a fourth chance,
- A word, a signal, a nod, a little breath
- Just to fool myself, to catch myself, to make it real, real
- These words, "You will be mine"
- These words, "You will be mine." all the time. oh
- These words, "You will be mine."
- These words, they haunt me, hunt me down, catch in my throat, make me pray,
- To say, this love's confines, oh.
- 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.
- Please just leave it.
- I should toss that vanity license plate.
- Toss that make-up painted face.
- Box those poems, chocolate cake.
- Scratch that name on the record player.
- Please just leave me be.
- Don't lay that stuff all over me.
- It crawls all over. All over me.
- Call my name, here I come.
- Your last ditch lay, will I never learn?
- Caramel turn on a dusty apology.
- It crawls all over me.
- You turn all over.
- It pains me.
- Please just leave it.
- If you could see yourself now, baby
- It's not my fault
- You used to be so in control
- You're going to roll right over this one
- Just roll me over, let me go
- You're laying blame
- Take this as no, no, no, no, no
- You bang, bang, bang, bang and bang,
- Blame, blame, blame
- You bang, bang, bang, bang and bang,
- It's not my thing so let it go.
- If you could see yourself now baby,
- The tables have turned
- The whole world hinges on your swings
- Your secret life of indiscreet discretions
- I'd turn the screw and leave the screen,
- Don't point your finger,
- You know that's not my thing
- You came to bang, bang, bang, bang and bang,
- Blame, blame, blame
- You bang, bang, bang, bang and bang,
- It's not my thing so let it go.
- You've got a little worry,
- I know it all too well,
- I've got your number,
- But so does every kiss-and-tell
- Who dares to cross your threshold,
- Or happens on your way,
- Stop laying blame.
- You know that's not my thing.
- You know that's not my thing,
- You came to bang, bang, bang, bang and bang,
- Blame, blame, blame
- You bang, bang, bang, bang and bang,
- It's not my thing so let it go.
- You bang, bang, bang, bang and bang,
- Blame, blame, blame
- You bang, bang, bang, bang and bang,
- It's not my thing so let it go.
- You kiss on me, tug on me, rub on me, jump on me,
- You bang on me, beat on me, hit on me, let go on me,
- You let go on me.
- I wore the clothes you wanted
- I took your name
- If there is some confusion
- Who's to blame?
- I signed your living will
- I smiled your face
- I'm ready to close the book on
- NASA and outer space
- If there is some confusion
- Who's to blame?
- Who's to blame?
- I sequenced your arrival
- I sealed your fate
- I pushed the button
- And erased your master tape
- I wrote the sales pitch
- I threw the grey switch
- I dragged your big-assed
- Dirty robbed car out of that ditch
- If there is some confusion
- Who's to blame?
- Who's to blame?
- I crossed your great divide
- I stirred your ocean's tide
- I called your bluff until
- I blew your circuits wide
- I'll be your albatross,
- Devil dog, Jesus Lord
- I don't wanna be Iggy Pop
- But if that's what it takes - me.
- If there is some confusion
- If there is some confusion
- If there is some confusion
- Who's to blame?
- Who's to blame?
- Yeah, all the stars drip down like butter,
- Wromises are sweet,
- We hold out our pans, lift our hands to catch them.
- We eat them up, drink them up, up, up, up
- Heyyyyyy, let me in.
- Heyyyyyy, let me in.
- I only wish that I could hear you whisper down,
- Mister fisherman, to a less peculiar ground.
- He gathered up his loved ones and he brought them all around
- To say goodbye, nice try.
- Heyyyyyy, let me in. yeah yeah yeah
- Heyyyyyy, let me in. Let me in.
- I had a mind to try to stop you. Let me in. Let me in.
- I've got tar on my feet and I can't see.
- All the birds look down and laugh at me.
- Clumsy, crawling out of my skin.
- Heyyyyyy, let me in. yeah yeah yeah
- Heyyyyyy, let me in.
- Heyyyyyy, let me in. yeah yeah yeah
- Heyyyyyy, let me in.
- Here comes that awful feeling again
- Welcome the ugly animal.
- I hold my breath to what you sing,
- My pyro acrobat ball and chain,
- I'm not afraid, I messed it, messed it, messed it, messed it up
- I've got my telescope head in the haystack
- I'm getting tired of your dodgeball circus act
- Put pepper in my coffee, I forgot to bark on command
- Here comes that awful feeling again
- Make way for monster jealousy
- The strong man kicked sand into my breakfast cereal bowl
- I'd spelled your name with Oatios,
- He messed it, messed it, messed it, messed it up
- I've got my telescope head in the haystack
- I am tired of your dodgeball circus act
- Put pepper in my coffee, I forgot to bark on command
- (you're mean, mean, mean)
- (you tease, tease, tease me)
- If I were you I'd really run from me
- I'd really really wish that I were you
- When I get loose I'll climb a tree
- And drop a load on your head
- This monster in me makes me retch, you messed it, messed it up
- I've got my telescope head in the haystack
- I am jealous of your dodgeball circus act
- Put pepper in my coffee, I forgot to bark
- Put pepper in my coffee, I forgot to bark on command
- (you're mean, mean, mean)
- (you tease, tease, tease me)
- Do you smell jealousy?
- Do you smell jealousy, jealousy, jealousy?
- Let the sun beat through the clouds,
- Let me kiss you on the mouth.
- All my childhood toys with chew marks in your smile.
- Let me hold your syrup close to mine.
- Let me watch you, Hollywood and Vine.
- And I want you like the movies, touch me now.
- I love you crazy, just keep on.
- I love you madly, just keep watch.
- You wipe my lips,
- You turn me on.
- My attentions are turned to you.
- Did I dream you were a tourist
- In the Arizona sun?
- I can see you there with luna moths
- And watermelon gum.
- I woke up in the sleeping bag,
- With nowhere else to run.
- You're standing in the bathroom
- Telling me its all in fun.
- I love you crazy, just keep on.
- I love you madly, just keep watch.
- You wipe my lips,
- You turn me on.
- My attentions are turned to you.
- I can whisper in your ear.
- I can write a calendar year
- I can wing around your Saturn smile, shut out the moon
- I walked the tension wire line.
- And I learned to disrespect the signs.
- And I want you like a Pisces rising, even though
- I love you crazy, just keep on.
- I love you madly, just keep watch.
- You wipe my lips,
- You turn me on.
- My attentions are turned to you.
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