R.E.M - Nightswimming [single] (1993) by R.E.M (보컬) on maniadb.com

Nightswimming deserves a quiet night.
The photograph on the dashboard, taken years ago,
Turned around backwards so the windshield shows.
Every streetlight reveals the picture in reverse.
Still, it's so much clearer.

I forgot my shirt at the water's edge.
The moon is low tonight.
Nightswimming deserves a quiet night.
I'm not sure all these people understand.
It's not like years ago,
The fear of getting caught,
Of recklessness and water.

They cannot see me naked.
These things, they go away,
Replaced by everyday.
Nightswimming, remembering that night.

September's coming soon.
I'm pining for the moon.
And what if there were two
Side by side in orbit
Around the fairest sun?

That bright, tight forever drum
Could not describe nightswimming.
You, I thought I knew you.
You I cannot judge.
You, I thought you knew me,
This one laughing quietly underneath my breath.
Nightswimming.

The photograph reflects,
Every streetlight a reminder.
Nightswimming deserves a quiet night, deserves a quiet night.

I sit at my table and wage war on myself
It seems like its all its all for nothing.
I know the barricades, and I know the mortar in the wall breaks
I recognize the weapons. I've used them well.

This is my mistake.
Let me make it good.
I raised the wall and I will be the one to knock it down.

I've a rich understanding of my finest defenses:
I proclaim that claims are left unstated,
I demand a rematch.
I decree a stalemate.
I divine my deeper motives.
I recognize the weapons.
I've practiced them well, I fitted them myself.

Its amazing what devices you can sympathize, empathize.
This is my mistake. Let me make it good.
I raised the wall and I will be the one to knock it down.

Reach out for me, hold me tight, hold that memory.
Let my machine talk to me. Let my machine talk to me.
This is my world, and I am the world leader pretend.
This is my life and this is my time.
I have been given the freedom to do as I see fit.
Its high time I razed the walls that I've constructed.

Its amazing what devices you can sympathize, empathize.
This is my mistake. Let me make it good.
I raised the wall and I will be the one to knock it down.

You fill in the mortar.
You fill in the harmony.
You fill in the mortar.
I raised the wall and I'm the only one.
I will be the one to knock it down.

Her world collapsed on a Sunday morning
She got up from the kitchen table
Folded the newspaper and silenced the radio
Those creatures jumped the barricades
And headed for the sea, sea

These creatures headed for the sea
She began to breathe
To breathe at the thought of this freedom
Stood and whispered to her child belong
She held the child and whispered
With calm, calm belong

Stood and whispered to her child belong
She held the child and whispered
With calm, calm belong

These barricades can only hold for so long
Her world collapsed on a Sunday morning
She took the child held tight
Opened the window
A breath, a song belong
Anew, new, belong

Dusk is dawn is day
Where did it go?
I've been laughing
Fast and slow
Moving in a still frame
Howling at the moon
Morning found me laughing
Up and down, down
Low low low
Night suits me fine
Morning suits me fine
I've been so happy
Way up high, high
In between
Down below
Low low low

I skipped the part about love
It seems so silly and low
Low low low
Low low low

I said the morning
It isn't your time
Barefoot naked
I can see your lines
It doesn't bother me
That you are right
Your grass is grassy wet
Your light white is bright
Light white light

I skipped the part about love
It seems so shallow and low
Low low low
Low low low

You and me
We know about time
We know how things go
They come and go
They live and grow
They pass and go
And glow and glow
Up and down
High and low
Low low low
Low low low

I skipped the part about love
It seems so silly and low
I skipped the part about love
It seems so shallow and low
Low low low
Low low low

I like your hands
All full of glory
All full of glory