Released: March 7, 2011
Songwriter: Michael Stipe
Producer: R.E.M.
I feel like an alligator
Climbing up the escalator
Climbing up the escalator, I feel strong
I feel like an aviator, pilot [bet you wouldn't buy it]
I'm feeling violent [betcha beady eye in]
Turn up and fly it, beat
HEY, HEY, ALLIGATOR YOU HAVE GOT A LOT TO LEARN
I HAVE GOT, HAVE GOT A LOT TO LEARN
I FEEL LIKE AN AUTOPILOT
I'm heroic STRONG AND SILENT
I FEEL LIKE A RAGE COMING UNDER MY HOOD
I FEEL GOOD AND CALM LIKE A ROBOT WOULD
I feel like an autopilot
I feel like an autopilot
I am not a hater hater hater hater hater
HEY, HEY, ALLIGATOR YOU HAVE GOT A LOT TO LEARN
I HAVE GOT, HAVE GOT A LOT TO LEARN
[I feel like a contradiction
I'm a walking science fiction
I don't know which way to turn
I have got a lot to burn!
I got a lot a lot to burn!]
IF I DIDN'T LIKE THE WAY YOU STARED AT ME
IF I DIDN'T LIKE THE WAY YOU STARED AT ME!
I COULD KNOCK YOU SIDEWAYS
I could knock you blind
I could show your found to the lost and find
I am not an agitator
I feel like an alligator
Climbing up the escalator
HEY, HEY, ALLIGATOR YOU HAVE GOT A LOT TO LEARN
I HAVE GOT, HAVE GOT A LOT TO LEARN
[you've got so much to learn. you've got a lot to learn]
Climbing up the escalator
Climbing up the escalator, I feel strong
I feel like an aviator, pilot [bet you wouldn't buy it]
I'm feeling violent [betcha beady eye in]
Turn up and fly it, beat
HEY, HEY, ALLIGATOR YOU HAVE GOT A LOT TO LEARN
I HAVE GOT, HAVE GOT A LOT TO LEARN
I FEEL LIKE AN AUTOPILOT
I'm heroic STRONG AND SILENT
I FEEL LIKE A RAGE COMING UNDER MY HOOD
I FEEL GOOD AND CALM LIKE A ROBOT WOULD
I feel like an autopilot
I feel like an autopilot
I am not a hater hater hater hater hater
HEY, HEY, ALLIGATOR YOU HAVE GOT A LOT TO LEARN
I HAVE GOT, HAVE GOT A LOT TO LEARN
[I feel like a contradiction
I'm a walking science fiction
I don't know which way to turn
I have got a lot to burn!
I got a lot a lot to burn!]
IF I DIDN'T LIKE THE WAY YOU STARED AT ME
IF I DIDN'T LIKE THE WAY YOU STARED AT ME!
I COULD KNOCK YOU SIDEWAYS
I could knock you blind
I could show your found to the lost and find
I am not an agitator
I feel like an alligator
Climbing up the escalator
HEY, HEY, ALLIGATOR YOU HAVE GOT A LOT TO LEARN
I HAVE GOT, HAVE GOT A LOT TO LEARN
[you've got so much to learn. you've got a lot to learn]
Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage: 1982-2011
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- Electrolite
- New Test Leper
- The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
- Country Feedback
- Stand
- Get Up
- Pop Song 89
- Finest Worksong
- At My Most Beautiful
- Imitation of Life
- Living Well Is the Best Revenge
- We All Go Back to Where We Belong
- The Great Beyond
- A Month of Saturdays
- Alligator Aviator Autopilot Antimatter
- Oh My Heart
- Überlin
- Leaving New York
- Fall on Me
- Begin the Begin
- Shiny Happy People
- Hallelujah
- Nightswimming
- Man on the Moon
- It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
- Losing My Religion
- What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?
- Orange Crush
- Bad Day
- The One I Love
- Gardening at Night
- Life and How to Live It
- Driver 8
- (Don’t Go Back to) Rockville
- Sitting Still
- So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
- Talk About the Passion
- Radio Free Europe
- Supernatural Superserious
- Losing My Religion
- It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
- Man on the Moon
- Everybody Hurts
- Orange Crush
- The One I Love
- Nightswimming
- The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
- Shiny Happy People
- What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?
- Drive
- Imitation of Life
- Stand
- Find the River
- Radio Free Europe
- (Don’t Go Back to) Rockville
- E-Bow the Letter
- Country Feedback
- The Great Beyond
- Let Me In
- Fall on Me
- Try Not to Breathe
- So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
- Ignoreland