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]

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.