Reckoning von R.E.M – Album-Songtexte & Tracks

[Verse 1]

This mellow, sweet, short-haired boy

Woman offers, "Pull up a seat"

Take in one symphony now

We've just begun to battle

Wrap your heel in bones of steel

Turn the leg, a twist of color

Autumn waited, hold it to you

In the colored, come another

 

[Chorus]

Seven Chinese brothers swallowing the ocean

Seven thousand years to sleep away the pain

She'll return

She will return

 

[Verse 2]

This mellow, sweet, short-haired boy

Woman offers, "Pull up a seat"

Take in one symphony now

We've just begun to battle

Wrap your heel in bones of steel

Turn the leg, a twist of color

Autumn waded seven seas

Swim the color, come another

 

 

[Chorus]

Seven Chinese brothers swallowing the ocean

Seven thousand years to sleep away the pain

She will return

She'll return

(She will return)

(She will return) Oh

 

[Verse 3]

This mellow, sweet, short-haired boy

Woman offers, "Pull up a chair"

Take in one symphony, Mao

I guess we lost that battle

Wrap your heel in bones of steel

Turn the leg, a twist of color

Autumn waded seven seas

Swim the color, come another

 

[Chorus]

Seven Chinese brothers swallowing the ocean

Seven thousand years the Communi did reign

She will return

She'll return

She will return

She'll return

[Verse 1]

Did you never call? I waited for your call

These rivers of suggestion are driving me away

The trees will bend, the cities wash away

The city on the river, there is a girl without a dream

 

[Chorus]

I'm sorry

I'm sorry

I'm sorry

I'm sorry

 

[Verse 2]

Eastern to Mountain, third party call, the lines are down

The wise man built his words upon the rocks, but I'm not bound to follow suit

The trees will bend, the conversation's dimmed

Go build yourself another home, this choice isn't mine

 

[Chorus]

I'm sorry

I'm sorry

 

[Verse 3]

Did you never call? I waited for your call

These rivers of suggestion are driving me away

The ocean sang, the conversation's dimmed

Go build yourself another dream, this choice isn't mine

 

 

[Chorus]

I'm sorry

I'm sorry

I'm sorry

I'm sorry

[Verse 1]

From the inside room

When the front room greeting becomes your special book

It was simple then

When the party lulls

If we fall by the side

Will you be remembered?

Will she be remembered?

 

[Chorus]

Alone in a crowd

A borrowed lantern bartered

If I'm to be your camera

Then who will be your face?

 

[Verse 2]

I fell by your bed once

I didn't wanna tell you

I should keep myself

In between the pages

Of the green light room

If we fall by the side

Will you be remembered?

Will she be remembered?

 

[Chorus]

Alone in a crowd

A bartered lantern borrowed

If I'm to be your camera

Then who will be your face?

 

 

[Verse 3]

From the inside room

When the front room greeting becomes your special book

It was simple then

When the party lulls

If we fall by the side

I still like you

Can you remember?

 

[Chorus]

Alone in a crowd

A bartered lantern borrowed

If I'm to be your camera

Then who will be your face?

Alone in a crowd

A bartered lantern borrowed

If I'm to be your camera

Then who will be your face?

2 ContributorsRockville LyricsLooking at your watch a third time waiting in the station for a bus

Going to a place that's far, so far away and if that's not enough

Going where nobody says hello, they don't talk to anybody they don't know

You'll wind up in some factory that's full time filth and nowhere left to go

Walk home to an empty house, sit around all by yourself

I know it might sound strange, but I believe

You'll be coming back before too long

Don't go back to Rockville

And waste another year

At night I drink myself to sleep and pretend

I don't care if you're not here with me

'Cause it's so much easier to handle

All my problems if I'm too far out to sea

But something better happen soon

Or it's gonna be too late to bring you back

It's not as though I really need you

If you were here I'd only bleed you

But everybody else in town only wants to bring you down and

That's not how it ought to be

I know it might sound strange, but I believe

You'll be coming back before too long