Reckoning - The I.R.S. Years Vintage

R.E.M Reckoning - The I.R.S. Years Vintage Lyrics
1.Harborcoat

They crowded up to Lennon with their noses worn off.
A handshake is worthy its all that you got

Metal shoes on wood pushed your arm back
theres a splinter in your eye and it reads react

They shifted the statues for harboring ghosts
reddened their necks and collared their clothes
well we dance and danced till the menace got out
she gatherd the corners and called it her gown

She said Oh.
Please find my harbor coat
Cant go outside with out it.
Find my harbor coat
cant go outside with out it.

They crowded up to Lennon with their noses worn off
a hand shakes is worthy its all that you got

metal shoes on wood pushed your arm back
theres a splinter in your eye and it reads react R.E.A.C.T.

Oh

Please find my harborcoat
Can't go outside with out it.
Find my harborcoat
Can't go outside with out it.

They shifted the statues for harboring ghosts
reddened their necks and collered their clothes
then we danced and danced untill the menace got out
she gathered the corners and called it her gown

Oh

Please find my harborcoat
can't go outside with out it.
Find my harborcoat
can't go outside with out it.


2.7 Chinese Bros.

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

Seven chinese brothers swallowing the ocean
Seven thousand years to sleep away the pain
She will return, she will return

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 swimming colored come another

Seven chinese brothers swallowing the ocean
Seven thousand years to sleep away the pain
She will return, she will return

This mellow, sweet, short-haired boy, woman offers pull up a
chair
Take in one symphony now, I guess we lost that battle
Wrap your heel in bones of steel, turn the leg, a twist of color
Autumn waded seven seas swimming colored come another

Seven chinese brothers swallowing the ocean
Seven thousand years the Communi did reign
She will return, she will return


3.So. Central Rain

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

I'm sorry
I'm sorry
I'm sorry
I'm sorry

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

I'm sorry
I'm sorry

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

I'm sorry
I'm sorry
I'm sorry
I'm sorry


4.Pretty Persuasion

It's what I want, hurry and buy,
all has been tried, follow reason and buy,
Cannot shuffle in this heat, it's all wrong
Try to put that on your sleeve it's all wrong, all wrong

He's got pretty persuasion
She's got pretty persuasion
Goddamn your confusion
She's got pretty persuasion

It's what I want, hurry and buy,
all has been tried, follow reasoning,
And I put that in this heat it's all wrong
Try to wear that on my sleeve it's all wrong, all wrong

He's got pretty persuasion
She's got pretty persuasion
Goddamn your confusion
He's got pretty persuasion

In the light I saw
quite a scene there

It's what I want, hurry and buy,
all has been tried, follow reason and buy,
Try to put that in this heat it's all wrong
Cannot wear that on your sleeve it's all wrong, all wrong

He's got pretty persuasion
She's got pretty persuasion
Goddamn your confusion
He's got pretty persua-a-a-asion


5.Time After Time(Annelise)

Ask the girl of the hour by the water tower's watch
If your friends took a fall, are your obligated to follow?

Time after, time after time.

When the bull's on his hooves, when you gather friends by the
tower.
If you try to refuse, will they judge your worth by the hour?

Time after, time after time.
Time after, time after time.

If you're tired and you're tried you can find me in my room.
You can stay if you want and the third time you can't lose.

Time after, time after time.
Time after, time after.

Ask the girl of the hour, by the water tower's watch
We can fight if you want but who will turn out the lights?

Time after, time after time.
Time after, time after time.

Time after, time after time.
Time after, time after.


6.Second Guessing

Why're you trying to second guess me?
I am tired of second guessing
What will be your look this season?
Who will be your book this season?

Why're you trying to second guess me?
I am tired of second guessing
What will be your look this season?
Who will be your book this season?

Here we are

Why're you trying to second guess me?
I am tired of second guessing
What will be your look this season?
Be in my club, write a book this season.


7.Letter Never Sent

It's been pretty simple so far, vacation in Athens is calling me
And knock, knock, knock on wood, I thought I'd left you behind.
Heaven is yours, heaven is yours, heaven's yours where I live.
The thought of the catacombs left my soul at home.
This letter never sent.

And it's so far, it's so dark, I'm so lost.
Heaven is yours, heaven is yours, heaven's yours where I live.

(Another story, another story for a while, someone show me)
When I'm moving too fast, where's my new address?
The water is evening now, the catacombs are filling in.
If my soul was made of stone, no, not, not so dark, dark.

And it's so far, it's so dark, I'm so lost.
And it's so far, it's so far, it's so far.

Heaven's yours, heaven's yours, heaven's yours where I live.
(Another story, another story for a while, someone show me)

Heaven's yours, heaven's yours, heaven's yours where I live.
(Another story, another story for a while, someone show me).


8.Camera

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?
Alone in a crowd, a bartered lantern borrowed.
If I'm to be your camera, then who will be your face?

I fell by you bed once, I didn't want to 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?
Alone in a crowd, a bartered lantern borrowed.
If I'm to be your camera, then who will be your face?

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?

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?


9.Don't Go Back To Rockville

Looking 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, don't go back to Rockville
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

Don't go back to Rockville, don't go back to Rockville
Don't go back to Rockville and waste another year

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

Don't go back to Rockville, don't go back to Rockville
Don't go back to Rockville and waste another year

(Repeat)


10.Little America

I can't see myself at thirty, I don't buy a lacquered thirty.
Caught like flies, preserved for tomorrow's jewelry, again.
Lighted in the amber yard, a green shellback, green shellback.
Preserved for tomorrow's eyes, in a tree beer tar-black brer
sap.

The biggest wagon is the empty wagon is the noisiest.
The consul, a horse, Jefferson I think we're lost.

Who will tend the farm museums?
Who will dust today's belongings?
Who will sweep the floors, hedging near the givens?
Rally round your leaders it's the mediator season.
Diane is on the beach, don you realize the life she's led?

The biggest wagon is the empty wagon is the noisiest.
The consul a horse, oh man I think we're lost.

The biggest wagon is the empty wagon is the noisiest.
A matter of course, Jefferson, Jeffer.

Lighted in the amber yard, a green shellback, green shellback.
Sky-lied, sty-tied, Nero pie-tied, in a tree tar-black brer sap.
Reason has harnessed the tame, a lodging, not stockader's game.
Another Greenville, another Magic Mart, Jeffer grab your fiddle.

The biggest wagon is the empty wagon is the noisiest.
The consul a horse, Jefferson I think we're lost.

The biggest wagon is the empty wagon is the noisiest.
The consul a horse, Jefferson I think we're lost.
Lost.


11.Wind Out(With Friends)


12.Pretty Persuasion(Live In Studio)

It's what I want, hurry and buy,
all has been tried, follow reason and buy,
Cannot shuffle in this heat, it's all wrong
Try to put that on your sleeve it's all wrong, all wrong

He's got pretty persuasion
She's got pretty persuasion
Goddamn your confusion
She's got pretty persuasion

It's what I want, hurry and buy,
all has been tried, follow reasoning,
And I put that in this heat it's all wrong
Try to wear that on my sleeve it's all wrong, all wrong

He's got pretty persuasion
She's got pretty persuasion
Goddamn your confusion
He's got pretty persuasion

In the light I saw
quite a scene there

It's what I want, hurry and buy,
all has been tried, follow reason and buy,
Try to put that in this heat it's all wrong
Cannot wear that on your sleeve it's all wrong, all wrong

He's got pretty persuasion
She's got pretty persuasion
Goddamn your confusion
He's got pretty persua-a-a-asion


13.White Tornado(Live In Studio)


14.Tighten Up


15.Moon River