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Up
by R.e.m.
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Overall Rating:
3.3824
Avg. Critic Score:
3.6750
Up Lyrics
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- He moves efficiently
- Beyond security.
- Great opportunity awaits.
- Airport fluorescent
- Creature of habit
- Labored breathing and sallow skin
- Recycled air
- Moving Sideways
- Great opportunity blinks.
- Great opportunity blinks.
- Discounted.
- The people mover
- The people mover
- Discounted.
- Hey hey.
- Hey hey.
- I was hell.
- Sarcastic silver swell
- That day it rained
- Tough spun. Hard worn. No
- Ocean flower aquarium
- Badlands. Give a hand.
- Honey dipt. Flim flam
- Hey hey. Hey hey.
- That cat can walk like a big bad man.
- So happy to show us
- I ate the lotus.
- Say haven't you noticed?
- I ate the lotus
- Storefront window, I reflect.
- Just last week I was merely heck
- Tip the scale. I was hell
- Picked me up, then I fell.
- Who's this stranger? Crowbar spine
- ...and I feel fine.
- Let it rain, rain, rain.
- Bring my happy back again.
- So happy to show us
- I ate the lotus.
- Say haven't you noticed?
- I ate the lotus
- Let it rain, rain, rain
- Save me from my self again
- Wash away my ugly sins
- Opposing thumb, dorsal fin
- That monkey died for my grin
- Bring my happy back again
- Let it rain, rain, rain
- Bring my happy back again
- So happy to show us
- I ate the lotus
- So haven't you noticed?
- I ate the lotus
- I ate the lotus
- I ate the lotus
- Now my suspicion's on the rise
- I have known, I have known your kind.
- Please don't talk, don't make me think
- Order up another drink
- Let me let my imagination drive.
- Can't you see
- I need
- Nothing too deep.
- Imagination
- Come alive
- Suspicion
- Tonight, I'll dream tonight.
- Listen to the devils in my ear.
- Tell me what, what I want to hear
- You're so funny, you're so fine.
- You're so perfect, you're so mine.
- That I'd never had an opportunity
- To hide
- No I never had a chance
- Can't you see
- I need
- Nothing too deep.
- Imagination
- Come alive
- Suspicion
- Tonight, I'll dream tonight.
- Look into my eyes.
- They hypnotize.
- The lights, the drinks.
- Let the music carry you away
- My eyes are blurred
- My sights are limited
- Am I sensing a familiar twinge?
- Please don't speak
- Make me think
- It's all too deep
- Imagination
- Come alive
- Suspicion
- Step down, I'll dream tonight.
- Step down, I'll dream
- You're so naked baby
- Carry me away
- Dream, Dream
- (Cohen/Buck/Mills/Stipe)
- You want to go out Friday
- And you want to go forever.
- You know that it sounds childish
- That you've dreamt of alligators.
- You hope that we are all with you
- And you hope that you're recognized
- You want to go forever
- You see it in my eyes.
- I'm lost in the confusion
- And it doesn't seem to matter
- You really can't believe it
- And you hope it's getting better.
- You want to trust the doctors
- Their procedure is the best
- But the last try was a failure
- And the intern was a mess.
- They did the same to Matthew
- And he bled 'til Sunday night
- They're saying don't be frightened
- But you're weakened by the sight of it
- You lock into a pattern
- And you know that it's the last ditch
- You're trying to see through it
- And it doesn't make sense
- But they're saying don't be frightened
- And they're killing alligators
- And they're hog-tied
- And accepting of the struggle
- You want to trust religion
- And you know it's allegory
- But the people who are followers
- Have written their own story.
- So you look up to the heavens
- And you hope that it's a spaceship
- And it's something from your childhood
- Your thinking don't be frightened
- You want to climb the ladder
- You want to see forever
- You want to go out Friday
- And you want to go forever.
- And you want to cross your DNA
- To cross your DNA with something reptile.
- And you're questioning the sciences
- And questioning religion
- You're looking like an idiot
- And you no longer care.
- And you want to bridge the schism,
- The built in mechanism to protect you.
- And you're looking for salvation
- And you're looking for deliverance
- You're looking like an idiot
- And you no longer care.
- You want to climb the ladder
- You want to see forever.
- You want to go out Friday
- You want to go forever.
- I've found a way to make you smile
- I've found a way
- A way to make you smile
- I read bad poetry
- Into your machine.
- I save your messages
- Just to hear your voice.
- You always listen carefully
- To awkward rhymes.
- You always say your name,
- Like I wouldn't know it's you,
- At your most beautiful.
- I've found a way to make you smile
- I've found a way
- A way to make you smile
- At my most beautiful
- I count your eyelashes, secretly.
- With every one, whisper I love you.
- I let you sleep.
- I know you're closed eye watching me,
- Listening.
- I though I saw a smile.
- I've found a way to make you smile
- I've found a way
- A way to make you smile
- They call me the apologist.
- And now that I'm at peak.
- You know at first it really hurt.
- We joke about these things.
- I've skirted all my differences
- But now I'm facing up.
- I wanted to apologize for everything I was.
- So.
- I'm sorry, so sorry...
- Did you understand me right?
- The people here are good.
- They tell me what I should have done
- And offer what I could.
- I'm good, all is good
- All's well, no complaints.
- When I feel regret,
- I get down on me knees and pray.
- I'm sorry, so sorry...
- I live a simple life
- Unfettered by complex sweets.
- You think this isn't me?
- Don't be weak.
- There I go.
- I'm so sorry.
- Thank you for being there for me.
- Thank you for listening, goodbye.
- I can forfeit selfishness
- I hope that you can apply
- This happiness
- This peacefulness
- I'm sorry, so sorry...
- I live a simple life
- Unfettered by complex sweets.
- You think this isn't me?
- That's so sweet.
- I'm so sorry.
- If we're talking about love
- Then I have to tell you
- Dear readers, I'm not sure where I'm headed.
- I've gotten lost before.
- I've woke up stone drunk
- Face down in the floor.
- Late afternoon, the house is hot.
- I started, I jumped up.
- Everyone hates a bore.
- Everybody hates a drunk.
- This may be a lit invention
- Professors muddled in their intent
- To try to rope in followers
- To float their malcontent.
- As for this reader,
- I'm already spent.
- Late afternoon, the house is hot.
- I started, I jumped up.
- Everyone hates a sad professor.
- I hate where I wound up.
- Dear readers, my apologies.
- I'm drifting in and out of sleep.
- Long silence presents the tragedies
- Of love. Not the age. Get afraid.
- The surface hazy with attendant thoughts.
- A lazy eye metaphor on the rock.
- Late afternoon, the house is hot.
- I started, I jumped up.
- Everyone hates a bore.
- Everybody hates a drunk.
- Everyone hates a sad professor.
- I hate where I wound up.
- I hate where I wound up.
- You wanted a challenge
- That's calling you higher
- I landed on my feet crawling
- I remember standing alone trying to forget you idling
- I hate to admit that that's my reference point
- But there it is
- You say you want me
- I'm what you found
- I'm upside down
- You're in the air
- You're in the air
- And I am breathing
- Brighten the stars
- The weather is lifting
- The heavens love
- A love like this
- It's pulling you higher
- Twist it and turn this around
- It lights from within
- It dribbles your chin
- Now brings a smile
- I'm lost again
- I'm lost again
- I'm what you found
- I'm upside down
- You're in the air
- You're in the air
- And I am breathing
- I want the stars to know they've won
- If only to beguile
- The sky has opened up again
- In heaven reconciled
- I want you naked
- I want you wild
- I want the stars to know they win
- Give me that smile
- Just give it me
- Just turn it on
- I'm lost again
- I'm what you found
- I'm upside down
- You're in the air
- I'm what you found
- I'm upside down
- You're in the air
- I'm what you found
- I'm upside down
- You're everywhere
- You're in the air
- And I am breathing you
- As the sun comes up, as the moon goes down
- These heavy notions creep around
- It makes me think, long ago
- I was brought into this life a little lamb
- A little lamb
- Courageous, stumbling
- Fearless was my middle name.
- But somewhere there I lost my way
- Everyone walks the same
- Expecting me to step
- The narrow path they've laid
- They claim to
- Walk unafraid
- I'll be clumsy instead
- Hold my love or leave me high.
- Say "keep within the boundaries if you want to play."
- Say "contradiction only makes it harder."
- How can I be
- What I want To be?
- When all I want to do is strip away
- These stilled constraints
- And crush this charade
- Shred this sad masquerade
- I don't need no persuading
- I'll trip, fall, pick myself up and
- Walk unafraid
- I'll be clumsy instead
- Hold my love or leave me high.
- If I have a bag of rocks to carry as I go
- I just want to hold my head up high
- I don't care what I have to step over
- I'm prepared to look you in the eye
- Look me in the eye
- And if you see familiarity
- Then celebrate the contradiction
- Help me when I fall to
- Walk unafraid
- I'll be clumsy instead
- Hold my love or leave me high.
- Walk unafraid
- I'll be clumsy instead
- Hold my love or leave me high.
- The concrete broke your fall
- To hear you speak of it
- I'd have done anything
- I would do anything
- I feel like a cartoon brick wall
- To hear you speak of it
- You've been so sad
- It makes me worry
- Why not smile?
- You've been sad for a while.
- Why not smile?
- I would do anything
- To hear you speak of it.
- Why not smile?
- You've been sad for a while.
- You've been sad for a while.
- Receiving department, 3 a.m.
- Staff cuts have socked up the overage
- Directives are posted.
- No callbacks, complaints.
- Everywhere is calm.
- Hong Kong is present
- Taipei awakes
- All talk of circadian rhythm
- I see today with a newsprint fray
- My night is colored headache grey
- Daysleeper
- The bull and the bear are marking their territories
- They're leading the blind with their international glories
- I'm the screen, the blinding light
- I'm the screen, I work at night.
- I see today with a newsprint fray
- My night is colored headache grey
- Don't wake me with so much.
- Daysleeper.
- I cried the other night
- I can't even say why
- Fluorescent flat caffeine lights
- Its furious balancing
- I'm the screen, the blinding light
- I'm the screen, I work at night
- I see today with a newsprint fray
- My night is colored headache grey
- Don't wake me with so much.
- The ocean machine is set to nine
- I'll squeeze into heaven and valentine
- My bed is pulling me,
- Gravity
- Daysleeper. Daysleeper.
- Daysleeper. Daysleeper. Daysleeper.
- I watched you fall.
- I think I pushed.
- Maybe I'm crazy
- Maybe diminished
- Maybe I'm innocent
- Maybe I'm finished
- Maybe I blacked out.
- How do I play this?
- I will give my best today
- I will give myself away
- I have never hurt anything
- Is the jury wavering?
- Do they know I sing?
- Maybe I'm crazy
- Maybe diminished
- How do I,
- How do I play this?
- Jealous lover, self defence
- Protective brother, chemical dependence
- I'll consult the i-ching
- I'll consult the TV
- Ouija, oblique strategies.
- I'll consult the law books for precedents.
- Can I charm the jury?
- I will give my best today
- I will give myself away
- I have never hurt anything
- Is the justice wavering?
- Do they know I sing That song? Sing along
- Sing along
- Sing along
- (I will never hurt anything)
- I watched you fall.
- Maybe they'll see me,
- Maybe they'll say,
- "I can see the truth in his statement.
- Smallpox blanket. No way."
- Can I charm the jury, my defense? Maybe I'm crazy
- Maybe diminished
- Maybe I love you
- Baby I loved you
- Baby I loved you
- Baby I loved you
- Baby I'm finished.
- I will give my best today
- I will give myself away
- I have never hurt anything
- Is the justice wavering?
- Do they know I sing That song? Sing along
- Sing along
- Sing along
- (I will never hurt anything)
- I have given myself away
- I will give my best today
- I have never hurt anything
- Is the justice wavering?
- Does she know I loved you?
- Does she know I loved you?
- Does she know I sing?
- You wake up in the morning
- And fall out of your bed
- Mean cats eat parakeets
- And this one's nearly dead.
- You dearly wish the wind would shift
- And greasy windows slide
- Open for the parakeet
- Who's colored bitter lime.
- Open the window
- And lift into your dreams
- lately, baby
- you can barely breathe.
- A broken wrist
- An accident
- You know that something's wrong
- You fold the leavings of your past
- No one knows you've gone.
- The sunspot flares of the early
- Nineties light up your wings.
- And scan the shotwave radio
- It's tracking outer rings.
- The tectonic dispatcher shifts
- To smooth the ocean floor
- And flattens out to warmer winds
- Of Brisbane's sunny shore.
- Where Buddhas tend to mending wrists
- A tea made from the leaves
- Of eucalyptus fragrances
- And coriander seeds.
- You wake up in the morning
- To warm Pacific breeze
- Where mean cats chew on licorice
- And cannot climb the trees.
- Open the window
- And lift into a dreams
- Baby, baby
- Baby starts to breathe.
- I'll take the position
- Assume the missionary part
- You work by committee,
- You had me pegged from the start.
- I'll pounce pony,
- Phony maroney,
- Pony before the cart.
- I'll pounce pony,
- This ceremony
- Only fills my heart.
- Who cast the final stone?
- Who threw the crushing blow?
- Someone has to take the fall
- Why not me?
- A punch toy volunteer
- A weakling on its knee.
- Is all you want to hear
- And all you want to see.
- Romantically you'd martyr me
- And miss this story's point
- It is my strength, my destiny
- This is the role that I have chosen.
- Who cast the final stone?
- Who threw the crushing blow?
- Someone has to take the fall
- Why not me?
- Why not me?
- Gentlemen mark your opponents
- Fire into your own ranks.
- Pick the weakest as strategic
- Move. Square off. To meet your enemy.
- For each and every gathering
- A scapegoat falls to climb.
- As I step forward, silently.
- Deliberately mine
- Who cast the final stone?
- Who threw the crushing blow?
- Someone has to take the fall
- Why not me? Why not me.
- Had consequence chose differently
- Had fate its ugly head
- My actions make me beautiful
- And dignify the flesh
- Me. I am free. Free.
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