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Living Well Is the Best RevengeR.E.M.

Released: March 31, 2008

Songwriter: Peter Buck Mike Mills (R.E.M.) Michael Stipe

Producer: R.E.M. Jacknife Lee

[Verse 1]
It's only when your poison spins into the life you'd hoped to live
That suddenly you wake up in a shaking panic
Now
You set me up like a lamb to slaughter
Garbo as a farmer's daughter
Unbelievable, the gospel according to who?
I lay right down

[Chorus]
All your sad and lost apostles hum my name and flare their nostrils
Choking on the bones you toss to them
Well i'm not one to sit and spin
Cause living well's the best revenge
Baby, I am calling you on that

[Verse 2]
Don't turn your talking points on me, history will set me free
The future's ours and you don't even rate a footnote now!
So who's chasing you? Where did you go?
You disappeared mid-sentence
In a judgement crisis i see my anecdote for it
You weakened shell

[Chorus]
All your sad and lost apostles hum my name and flare their nostrils
Choking on the bones you toss to them
Well i'm not one to sit and spin
Cause living well's the best revenge
Baby, I am calling you on that

[Bridge]
You savour your dying breath
Well, i forgive but i don't forget
You work it out, let's hear that argument again
Camera three... Go now!

[Chorus]
All your sad and lost apostles hum my name and flare their nostrils
Choking on the bones you toss to them
Well i'm not one to sit and spin
Cause living well's the best revenge
Baby, I am calling you on that

[Outro]
Baby, I am calling you on that
Baby, I am calling you out

R.E.M.

R.E.M. were an American rock band from Athens, Georgia, formed in 1980 by singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills, and drummer Bill Berry.

Berry quit the band in April 1997, as they were getting together to record demos for the album Up. He was not replaced on a permanent basis, but the band used an assortment of drummers in his place.

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