R.E.M.

Released: October 4, 2004

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

Producer: Pat McCarthy R.E.M.

[Verse 1]
So hesitation pulled me back
I'm stronger when I don't attract
In your eyes I'm a lamb without a rack
And I am getting confused
I'm a cactus trying to be a canoe
As you pan for ore in the desert, floored, I say to you
That I could never imagine a place so beautiful
I could never steal your gold away

[Chorus]
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
(I try to walk like a big wham bam
I came across like a battering ram)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
(I try to float like a Telegram Sam
I'm trying to divine you)

[Verse 2]
My book is called "The Ascent of Man"
I marked your chapter with a catamaran
The accent's off, but I am what I am

[Chorus]
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
(I try to walk like a big wham bam
I came across like a battering ram)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
(I try to float like a Telegram Sam
I'm trying to divine you)

[Verse 3]
I looked for you, it's my last grandstand
A motorscootered goat-legged Pan
Figure eighting in quicksand

[Chorus]
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
(I try to walk like a big wham bam
I came across like a battering ram)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
(I try to float like a Telegram Sam
I'm trying to divine you)

[Outro]
So hesitation pulled me back
I'm stronger when I don't attract
And with my hands tied I won't crack

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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