The End of the World As We Know it

[Jipsah]

That's 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 its 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 its 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...

 

[Rdr Iakovos]

ROFL
Very tongue-in-cheek

Michael Stipe curtseys.


Thanks
Iakovos

 

[NumberOneSon]

Good song. I didn't think any Old Timer's listened to REM.

In Christ,

Acts6:5

 

[Imblessed]

so that's the words to the song! I've wondered.....

my husband can actually sing most of that song......amazing!

 

[Jipsah]

Good song. I didn't think any Old Timer's listened to REM.

I didn't know anybody but Old Timer's did. That's song's - what? - 20 years old?

We were vacating in Pensacola a couple of years ago and went to a concert on the boardwalk. The main band was an outfit called The Molly Ringwalds who did covers of every 80s-vintage song that you've ever heard. When they played "It's the End of the World..." I was singing along with it and it weirded the kids out. They thought it was a fairly new song and the fact that old dad knew it was amazing to them. The nearest bystanders were weirded out by the deranged-looking Oriental family singing along with an REM song at the top of their lungs.

 

[thunderbyrd]

hey jipshat: "that's nice, but so what?"

 

[Jipsah]

hey jipshat: "that's nice, but so what?"

H on the end, not a T.

So what? So what, you ask? You can't see the significance? It's a clear Sign of the End. When you have Asians singing, in English, mind you, about the End of the World on the boardwalk in Pensacola Florida, just as though they were Americans (and Southerners to boot) then it's truly a Sign of the End.

If you don't believe it, then I may have to relate the experiences of the Jipsah clan in Boston, where the spectacle of Southern-talking sweet-tea-drinking grace-saying-before-supper-in-restaurants orientals was simply too much for the locals to endure without comment. But that's another story for another time.

 

[thunderbyrd]

Sorry About The Misspelling...