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REM’s It’s The End of the World

Thats great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane –
Lenny Bruce is not afraid.
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn world serves it’s own needs, don’t misserve your own needs.
Feed it up a knock, speed, grunt no, strength no. Ladder structure clatter with fear of height, down height.
Wire in a fire, represent the seven games in 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, trump, tethered crop. Look at that low plane! Fine then.
Uh oh, overflow, population, common group, but it’ll do. Save yourself, serve yourself.
World serves it’s 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 and book burning, blood letting.
Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate. Light a candle, light a motive.
Step down, step down. Watch a heel crush, crush.
Uh oh, this means no fear – cavalier. Renegade and 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 tripped a nice continental drift divide. Mount St. Edelite.
Leonard Bernstein. Leonid Breshnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs.
Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom!
You symbiotic, patriotic, slam, but 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…

Billy Joel’s We didn’t Start the Fire

Harry Truman Doris Day Red China Johnnie Ray
South Pacific Walter Winchell Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy Richard Nixon Studebacker television
North Korea South Korea Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs H-bomb Sugar Ray Panmunjom
Brando The King and I and The catcher in the Rye
Eisenhower vaccine England’s got a new queen
Maricano liberace Santayana goodbye

We didn’t start the fire
it was always burning
since the world’s been turning
we didn’t start the fire
no we didn’t light it
but we tried to fight it

Joseph Stalin Malenkov Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller Campanella communist block
Roy Cohn Juan Peron Toscanini dacron
Dien Bien Phu falls Rock around the clock

Einstein James Dean Brooklyn’s got a winning team
Davy Crockett Peter Pan Elvis Presley Disneyland
Bardot Budapest Alabama Krushchev
Princess Grace Peyton Place trouble in the Suez

We didn’t start the fire
it was always burning
since the world’s been turning
we didn’t start the fire
no we didn’t light it
but we tried to fight it

Little rock Pasternak Mickey Mantle Kerouac
Sputnik Chou En-Lai Bridge on the River Kwai
Lebanon Charles de Gaulle California baseball
starkweather homicide children of thalidomide

Buddy Holly Ben Hur space monkey Mafia
hula hoops Castro Edsel is a no-go
U2 Syngman Rhee payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker Psycho Belgians in the Congo

We didn’t start the fire
it was always burning
since the world’s been turning
we didn’t start the fire
no we didn’t light it
but we tried to fight it

Hemingway Eichmann Stranger in a strange land
Dylan Berlin Bay of Pigs invasion
Lawrence of Arabia British Beatlemania
Ole Miss John Glenn Liston beats Patterson
Pope Paul Malcolm X British politican sex
JFK blown away what else do I have to say

We didn’t start the fire
it was always burning
since the world’s been turning
we didn’t start the fire
no we didn’t light it
but we tried to fight it

Birth control Ho Chi Minh Richard Nixon back again
moonshot Woodstock Watergate punk rock
begin Reagan Palestine terror on the airline
Ayatollah’s in Iran Russians in Afghanistan

Wheel of fortune Sally Ride heavy metal suicide
foreign debts homeless vets AIDS cracks Bernie Goetz
hypodermics on the shores China’s under martial law
rock and roller cola wars I can’t take it anymore

We didn’t start the fire
it was always burning
since the world’s been turning
we didn’t start the fire
but when we are gone
will it still burn on and on and on and on
and on and on and on and on

We didn’t start the fire
it was always burning
since the world’s been turning
we didn’t start the fire
no we didn’t light it
but we tried to fight it

We didn’t start the fire
it was always burning
since the world’s been turning
we didn’t start the fire
no we didn’t light it
but we tried to fight it

We didn’t start the fire
it was always burning
since the world’s been turning
we didn’t start the fire
no we didn’t light it
but we tried to fight it