Track Listing 'Collapse Into Now' revealed by REM

27 November 2010
Guitar God and Man with a Foot Fetish
The  final track listing for R.E.M.'s new album Collapse Into Now, has been  revealed to restless fans in the latest R.E.M. Fan Club newsletter, released in late November:

Me, Marlon Brando, Marlon Brando and I Lyrics REM



Me, Marlon Brando, Marlon Brando and I Lyrics REM

Taken from the Collapse Into Now album, this is perhaps one of R.E.M.'s most blatant lyrics, directly referring to a famous figure in the title and lyric of the song. For those born in a cave, Marlon Brando was considered one of the greatest actors to grace the silver screen.

Lyrics:

We live and dream about the future
Please ask me up I need to count well now
Sit through the annals of our favorite times
Our heroes and all their fade out thoughts
Me, Marlon Brando, Marlon Brando and I say

Lay me down, down, down, down
Lay me down, down, down, down, down
Help me off to sleep
Or take me deep again

We live and dream about our heroes
I listened closely and I said
I'm not sure where to place myself here friend
I might wanna go on wings instead
The winners write the rule books
The histories are never [right]

Lay me down, down, down, down
Lay me down, down, down, down, down
Help me off to sleep (down down down)
Or take me deep again (down down down)
I heard what you said (down down down)
I picture brass rings in your head
What golden [Brahms] in my mind
Our brass is mixed with red

Check out more lyrics from Collapse Into Now, It Happened Today and the sure to be a classic Alligator Aviator Autopilot Antimatter

That Someone Is You Lyrics R.E.M.



That Someone Is You Lyrics R.E.M.

This song is from R.E.M.'s album Collapse Into Now.

Lyrics:

With the restraint of New Order covers, young marble giants
I sat quietly waiting
For someone else to make the first move
Someone has to make the first move...

That someone is you
That someone is you
That someone has pulled me up and out of cartoon quicksand
Pulled me up and out of me!

And with the fury lock of Sharon Stone Casino
Scarface, Al Pacino
'74 Torino

Waiting for someone else to make the first move
Someone has to make the first move

That someone is you
That someone is you
That someone has pulled me up and out of cartoon quicksand
Pulled me up and out of me!

Pulled me up and out of cartoon quicksand
Pulled me up and out of me!

Check out the lyrics to Walk it Back, another song off R.E.M.'s Collapse Into Now. Or maybe the lyrics of BlueOh, who am I kidding? We both know you have a secret crush on Lady Gaga's Born this Way song!

Mine Smell Like Honey Lyrics R.E.M.


Mine Smell Like Honey Lyrics R.E.M.

Mine Smells like Honey is a track from the REM album Collapse Into Now. Out of context, the song name possibly conjures up images of sexual innuendo, but a quick read or listen of the lyrics assures us that the song is refering to - anything!

Mine Smells Like Honey Lyrics:


I would dare you, but I know I don’t need to
You’re going to do just what you want to
You’re going to take the leavings here at the fairground
You’re going to sing the praises of your fruit

Mine smell like honey, uh!
Mine smell like honey, uh!
Mine smell like hu, hu, hu, hu, honey, uh!

Dig a hole, dig it deeper, deeper!
Climb a mountain, climb it steeper, steeper!
Dig a hole, dig it deeper, deeper!
Track a trail of honey through it all

If the end comes faster than we had expected
And predictions lead us to the final fall
If the flowers crack the grave (grain?) and leave the patterns of the pavement
I can hear you shouting over it all

Mine smell like honey, uh!
Mine smell like honey, uh!
Mine smell like hu, hu, hu, hu, honey, uh!

Dig a hole, dig it deeper, deeper!
Climb a mountain, climb it steeper, steeper!
Dig a hole, dig it deeper, deeper!
Track a trail of honey through it all

Dig a hole, dig it deeper, deeper!
Climb a mountain, climb it steeper, steeper!
Dig a hole, dig it deeper, deeper!
Track a trail of honey through it all

You track a trail of honey through it all
You track a trail of honey

While you are visiting this fine REM website, why don't you kick off your shoes and have a look around? We have all the Collapse Into Now lyrics for your reading pleasure. Why don't you figure out what Michael Stipe meant when he wrote the lyrics to Alligator Aviator Autopilot Antimatter or what the Discoverer lyrics are really trying to tell the listener?

Do you like Pink Floyd? Check out the lyrics to The Endless Summer.

Alligator Aviator Autopilot Antimatter Lyrics REM


Alligator Aviator Autopilot Antimatter Lyrics R.E.M.


R.E.M's title sounds like something that a 1000 monkeys typing would eventually come up with! The lyrics of Alligator Aviator Autopilot Antimatter were actually written by R.E.M's Michael Stipe for the Collapse Into Now album. The song features an extra two 'featuring famous' vocalists (which I think is a first for REM), namely Peaches and Lenny Kaye.

Alligator Aviator Autopilot Antimatter Lyrics:

I feel like an alligator
Climbing up the escalator
Climbing up the escalator
I feel strong

I feel like an aviator pilot
Thinks you wouldn't buy it
I'm feeling violent
Beat your bleeding eye in
Hey, hey, alligator, you've got a lot to learn
I have, have got a lot to learn

I feel like an autopilot
I'm the world's strongest island
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've got a lot to learn
I have, 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've got a lot to learn
I've got a lot of lot to learn

If I didn't like the way you stared at me
If I didn't like the way you stared at me
I could sideways, I could knock you blind
I could show you found to the lost and find

I am not an agitator
I feel like an agitator
Climbing up the escalator...
Hey, hey, alligator, you've got a lot to learn
I have got, have got a lot to learn

You've got so much to learn
You got a lot to learn...

Check out the lyrics to Me, Marlon Brando, Marlon Brando and I or why not smile as you check out the lyrics to Everyday is yours to Win.

It's fair to say this song doesn't suffer from Vertigo by u2 at all.

Oh My Heart Lyrics REM Collapse Into Now



Oh My Heart Lyrics REM

This song is from R.E.M's album, Collapse Into Now. It's a pretty genius lyric from lead singer Michael Stipe with its references to singing buildings and the cross pollination of the concept of tyrannic government with the tryanny of love. Or something. Actually Mike Mills the song is "a hymn of love to the Crescent City with deep-blue brass by the local band Bonerama"

Oh My Heart Lyrics:

The kids have a new take
A new take on faith
Pick up the pieces
Get carried away

I came home to a city half-erased
I came home to face
What we faced
This place needs me here to start
This place is the beat of my heart

Oh my heart
Oh my heart
(Oh my heart)

Oh my heart
Oh my heart
(Oh my heart)

The storm didn't kill me
The government changed
Hear the answer and call, hear this song re-arranged
Hear the trees, the ghosts and the buildings sing
With the wisdom to reconcile this thing

It's sweet
And it's sad
And it's true
How it doesn't look bitter on you

Oh my heart
Oh my heart
(Oh my heart)

Oh my heart
Oh my heart
(Oh my heart)

Mother and father
I stand beside you
The good of this world might help see me through
This place needs me here to start
This place is the beat of my heart

Oh my heart
Oh my heart
(Oh my heart)

Oh my heart
Oh my heart
(Oh my heart)

Oh my heart
Oh my heart
(Oh my heart)

Oh my heart
Oh my heart
(Oh my heart)

While you are visiting this fine REM lyrics website, why don't you chill out, smoke a peace pipe and have a look around? We have all the Collapse Into Now lyrics for your reading entertainment. Why don't you digest out what Michael Stipe meant when he scribbled together the lyrics to Oh My Heart or what the Discoverer lyrics are really trying to tell the listener?


Here's the official R.E.M. lyrics video:


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Uberlin Lyrics REM



Uberlin Lyrics R.E.M.

Uberlin is from R.E.M.'s new album, Collapse Into Now. A nice acoustic number from R.E.M. with Micheal Stipe in fine sing voice.

Producer Jacknife Lee (Who produces U2) said "Michael had a lyrical idea that was so complex that I didn't understand what he was getting at even after he explained it to me. He has pages and pages of lyrics and ideas with backstories for characters that don't figure in the song."

Mike Mills was actually explain the meaning behind the song: the "character is in trouble but doing his best to get through it. He's gonna make it. But it wasn't easy"
Uberlin Lyrics:

uberlin

hey now
take your pills
and
hey now
make your breakfast
hey now
comb your hair and off to work

crash land
no illusions
no collision
no intrusion
my imagination run away

i know, i know, i know what I am chasing
i know, i know, i know that this is changing me

I am flying on a star into a meteor tonight
I am flying on a star, a star, a star
I will make it through the day
and then the day becomes the night
I will make it through the night

ah hey now
take the u-bahn
five stops, change the station
hey now
don't forget: the change will save you

hey now
count a thousand milion people
that's astounding
chasing through the city with their stars so bright

i know, i know, i know what I am chasing
i know, i know, i know that this is changing me

I am flying on a star into a meteor tonight
I am flying on a star, a star, a star
I will make it through the day
and then the day becomes the night
I will make it through the night

Well I don't mind repeating
I am not complete
I have never been the gifted type

well hey man
tell me something
are you off to somewhere?
do you want to go with me tonight?

I know, I know that this is changing
we walk the streets to feel the ground
I'm chasing through Berlin

I am flying on a star into a meteor tonight
I am flying on a star, a star, a star
I will make it through the day
and then the day becomes the night
I will make it through the night

Listen to Uberlin here.

Check out the lyrics to Me, Marlon Brando, Marlon Brando and I or why not smile as you check out the lyrics to Everyday is yours to Win.

Discoverer Lyrics REM Collapse Into Now



Discoverer Lyrics R.E.M.

Discoverer Lyrics from R.E.M.'s album Collapse Into Now. Released world wide for free as an MP3 download from REMHQ, Discoverer is the first song on Collapse Into Now. It's a classic uptempo R.E.M. song.

Lyrics:

Hey baby
This is not a challenge
It just means that I don't love you as much as I always said I did
I was wrong
I have been laughable wrong
Sandpaper, paper maché stock, cobweb

Oh, the city
We are scared now
But nanananana…

Well, I didn't have to be afraid
I didn't have to feel so stupid
I can see myself
I can feel...

With just the slightest bit of finesse
I might have made a little less mess
But it was what it was
Let's all get on with it now

Discoverer! x four
We're laughing…
Discoverer!

Floating across Houston
It's where I am
I see the city rise up tall

The opportunities
The possibilities
Well, I have never felt so calm

Remember, the vodka special night of discovery
Remember that
Laughing, discovery
Oh how I look back and reflect
How I felt it, how I said
I don't have to feel so wrong
Now, why don't you take a few steps back and grasp…

Repeat Chorus

Happy to take any corrections or thoughts on the song in the comments!

Check out the lyrics to It Happened Today which features Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam. Or why don't you stop being a Sad Professor for half a second and check out the lyrics to All the Best. Oh, who am I kidding? We both know you have a secret crush on Lady Gaga's Born this Way song!

Everyday Is Yours To Win Lyrics Collapse Into Now R.E.M.

14 November 2010
Everyday Is Yours To Win Lyrics Collapse Into Now R.E.M.

Described by Mike Mills as "slow, beautiful song built around a guitar riff." Everyday Is Yours To Win is a classic REM tune.

Everyday is yours to win lyrics:

With the walk
and the talk
and the tic-tac clock

With the rock
and the roll
and tht bridge
and the told

With the brilliance
and the light
with the sting
and the hide
and the road ahead of you.

I can not tell a lie
It's not all cherry pie
But it's all there waiting for you
Yeah you

Hey you (Hey you)
Hey you (Hey you)
Hey you (Hey you)
I know

With the walk
And the woods
And the southern fudge
There's an old look better and now

While I'm nothing but confused
with nothing left to lose
and if you buy that
I've got a bridge for you

Hey you (Hey you)
Hey you (Hey you)
Hey you (Hey you)
I know

Hey you (Hey you)
Hey you (Hey you)
Hey you (Hey you)
I know

Oh...

Every day is never good
Every day is yours to win
And that's how heroes are made

I wanted to win
so I've said it again:
That's how heroes are made

Hey you (Hey you)
Hey you (Hey you)
Hey you (Hey you)
I know

Hey you (Hey you)
Hey you (Hey you)
Hey you (Hey you)
I know

Ah...

Check out the lyrics to All the Best, another great song from Collapse Into Now.

All The Best Lyrics R.E.M. Collapse Into Now

All The Best Lyrics R.E.M. Collapse Into Now

A fast paced song that features Mike Mills sharing lead vocal duties with Michael Stipe. 

All The Best Lyrics:

So over me
so pie in my face
So talk to me
To me when you trace these in my aquatic moto hard
There's where I sleep and throw away
the chourch bells in my ears bleed red flood cells

I think I'll sing it a rhyme
I'll give it one more time
I'll show the kids how to do it fine, fine, fine, fine

I hold the mirror off
You tell me what is what
You tell me which part of my story baby stuck, stuck, stuck
I'm in a part of your trees
That you don't even understand
It's just like need to overstain my welcome men

Let's sing it a rhyme
Let's give it one more time
Let's show the kids how to do it fine, fine, fine, fine

Oh...

I just have to get that off my chest
Now It's time to give on with the best
All the best
All the best
All the best
All the best, best, best

It's just like need to overstain my welcome bless

Let's sing it a rhyme
Let's give it one more time
Let's show the kids how to do it fine, fine, fine, fine
Let's sing it a rhyme
Let's give it one more time
Let's show the kids how to do it fine, fine, fine, fine
Check out the lyrics to Walk it Back, another song off Collapse Into Now.

Walk It Back lyrics REM Collapse Into Now

Walk It Back lyrics REM Collapse Into Now


Walk it Back is from REM's album Collapse Into Now. Other songs from the album include Blue and It Happened Today. 

Walk it Back Lyrics:

Walk it back
Walk it back
Walk it back
What, what would you
Have had me say
Instead of what I said

Where, where would I go
How could I follow that
Except to do what I did

Which it's to
Walk it back
Walk it back
Hmmm... Walk it back

Time reversing me why
erasing me vice
and tried to start again

You, don't you turn this around
I have not touch the ground in
I don't know how long

You say to
Walk it back
Walk it back
Walk it back
Hmmm... Walk it back
Walk it back
Walk it back

Time, time, time it cannot revive
You, you can't turn away
You asked me to stay
but something needs to change

Why can't you
Walk it back
Walk it back
Walk it back
Walk it back
Walk it back
Hmmm... Walk it back

Check out the lyrics to Alligator Aviator Autopilot Antimatter, a classic, zany R.E.M. song or try Until the End of the World Lyrics by U2 from Achtung Baby, a classic gem of a song. 

It Happened Today Lyrics REM Collapse Into Now



It Happened Today Lyrics by REM Collapse Into Now

Featuring Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder on vocals with Micheal, It Happened Today is from R.E.M.'s album Collapse Into Now. It was the first single released off the album.

Collapse Into Now also features another guest vocalist with Patti Smith appearing on Blue. The song itself is a classic jangly guitar effort from Peter Buck and sees the return of some Mandolin.

It Happened Today Lyrics:


This is not a parable
This is a terrible
This is a terrible thing

Yes I will rhyme that, after, after all I've done today
I have earned my wings

It happened today. Hooray! Hooray!
It happened. Hip, hip, hooray!

We'll leave the allegory to a different Bible story
Out of deference, defiance, and choice
Closing on a promise, after, after all I've done today
I have earned my voice

It happened today.

Hooray! Hooray!
It happened.

Hip, hip, hooray!


Check out the lyrics to Me, Marlon Brando, Marlon Brando and I or why not smile as you check out the lyrics to Everyday is yours to Win.

Blue lyrics REM Collapse Into Now

Blue Lyrics

Blue is from R.E.M's album Collapse Into Now. Recorded with long time R.E.M. favourite Patti Smith who notably had a hit with R.E.M.'s Ebow The Letter from the New Adventures in Hi Fi album.

Blue Lyrics


Yellow circus left the stakes a broken ropes world's useless mug
The ties that bind, ha ha
I can be bad poet
Street poet
Shit poet
Kind poet too

Subway
Almost 4AM
Halloween night
Had enough to drink to make my own party
All my fellow writers in half costume, half asleep
Half silly, gone to seed

I don't mark my time with dates, holidays, faded wisdom, locked karma holders
Convenient

I am made by my times
I am a creation of now
Shaken with the cracks and crevices
I'm not giving up easy
I will not fold
I don't have much
But what I have is gold

I saw your face...

I sing in platinum
I dress in brass
I eat in zinc
Let it pass

Compare a toast
I like that
I understand courage
I still roll with the shout of a character I was married to today
I try to see outside myself
I understand the eyes
Excuse all the highs
Sorry
I am sorry
Ha ha

I like you, love you, every coast of you.
I've seen your eddies and tides and hurricanes and cyclones.
Low ebb tide and high, full moon.
Up close and distant.
I read you.
Look, the sky, the sea, the ocean, the sun, the moon.
Blue, blue, blue, blue, blue, blue, blue blue, blue, blue, blue, blue.
Naked and blue.

Breathing with you. Touch. Change. Shift. Allow air. Window open. Drift. Drift away. Into now.

I want Whitman proud. Patti Lee proud. My brothers proud. My sisters proud. I want me. I want it all. I want sensational. Irresistible.

This is my time and I am thrilled to be alive.

Living. Blessed. I understand.



20th century, collapse into now.
Check out the lyrics to Walk it Back, another song off R.E.M.'s Collapse Into NowOh, who am I kidding? We both know you have a secret crush on Lady Gaga's Born this Way song!

Do you think Peter Buck would be interested in brewing with Cryo Hops instead of pellets?

Is it me or is Micheal beginning to look like Billy Joel?

Is it me or is Micheal beginning to look like Billy Joel?
Here's a sweet article from Rolling Stone Magazine in which Mike Mills has a wee chat about the up coming R.E.M. album, Collapse Into Now.

When R.E.M. began recording Collapse Into Now last year they decided to throw out the guidelines they imposed on their last album, 2008's Accelerate. "On the last one we tried to make everything focused, short, fast and sharp," Mike Mills tells Rolling Stone. "We took most of the rules off this time, picking the best songs regardless of whether they were fast, slow or mid-tempo."

The good oil is that the disc, which is due out early next year, reminds Mills of the band's 1992 classic Automatic For The People. "The songs go from one type into another really easily and it all seems to fit as a piece," Mills says. "It makes sense as a whole the same way that Automatic For The People did."

Produced by Jacknife Lee, the disc was recorded over the past year at studios in Portland, New Orleans, Nashville and at Berlin's legendary Hansa Tonstudio—where David Bowie and Iggy Pop recorded The Idiot and later where U2 cut Achtung Baby. "There's so many, not exactly ghosts...but vibrations in there," says Mills. "It's as very, very vibey place."

While in Berlin the band met up with longtime friend Patti Smith, who contributed vocals to the track "Blue." "Patti totally changed the song and added a whole other dimension to it," says Mills. "It was a powerful thing to watch." Another track, "It Happened Today," featured vocal contributions from Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam

The songs are also less political than the material on Accelerate. "It's more of a personal record than a political one," says Mills. "Current events do come into our mind when we write, but the themes here are more universal."

Other songs include the piano ballad "Walk It Back," a rocker called "All The Best" that features Mills and Michael Stipe sharing lead vocals and "Everyday Is Yours To Win"—which Mills describes as a "slow, beautiful song built around a guitar riff."

Mills says the group didn't always see eye-to-eye while recording the disc. "This one certainly has its share of difficulty—but I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing," he says. "It just means you have creative tension, which is what happens when three strong-willed people manage to find a consensus."

Update: REM released Discoverer as a Free MP3
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