R.E.M.

Released: May 14, 2001

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

Producer: R.E.M. Patrick McCarthy

[Verse 1]
Easy to poke yourself square in the eye
Harder to like yourself, harder to try
These Elvis poses
Postcards and neoprene
Roses a dollar a stem
Everyone sleeping or pulling a long haul
The keys in the cooler it's three AM

[Chorus]
And Saturn is beckoning no-one
Is off on its own
Is offering up

[Verse 2]
Late shift convenience store, cut out the lights
Telescope roof towards the north-western sky
You pull the ladder up, no-ones the wiser
You find your sights and discover

[Chorus]
Saturn is orbiting nothing
Is off on its own
Is breaking from home

[Interlude 1]
Harder to look yourself square in the eye
Easy to take off

[Verse 3]
You found the ladder in the pattern of your wrist
You've seen and you've marked horizons
Mother was difficult, she made you cry
Cover the mirror, look to the sky
You climb into your rocketship Triumph
Lift up and hold out your hands

[Chorus]
Saturn is orbiting nothing
Is off on its own
Is breaking from home
Saturn is orbiting nothing
Is off on its own
Is breaking from home

[Interlude 2]
Saturn return when you chase down its moons
Throw them into a new gravity

[Verse 4]
Harder to look yourself square in the eye
Easy to poke yourself, easy as pie
Easy to take off, harder to fly
Harder to wake Galileo

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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