Strange Currencies

R.E.M Strange Currencies Lyrics
1.Strange Currencies(Album Version)

Lyricist:Bill BerryMichael StipeMike MillsPeter Buck
Writer(s):Bill BerryMichael StipeMike MillsPeter Buck

I don't know why you're mean to me
when I call on the telephone.
and I don't know what you mean to me
but I want to turn you on, turn you up, figure you out, I want
to take you on

These words, 'You will be mine.'
These words, 'You will be mine.' all the time.

the fool might be my middle name
But I'd be foolish not to say
I'm going to make whatever it takes,
ring you up, call you down, sign your name, secret love,
make it rhyme, take you in, and make you mine.

These words, 'You will be mine.'
These words, 'You will be mine.' all the time. oh

I tripped and fell. did I fall.
What I want to feel, I want to feel it now

You know with love come strange currencies
and here is my appeal:

I need a chance, a second chance, a third chance, a fourth
chance,
a word, a signal, a nod, a little breath
just to fool myself, to catch myself, to make it real, real

These words, 'You will be mine'
These words, 'You will be mine.' all the time. oh

These words, 'You will be mine.'
These words, they haunt me, hunt me down, catch in my throat,
make me pray,
say, love's confined, oh.


2.Drive(Live)(1992)

Lyricist:Bill BerryMichael StipeMike MillsPeter Buck
Writer(s):Bill BerryMichael StipeMike MillsPeter Buck

Smack, crack, bushwhacked.
Tie another one to the racks, baby.

Hey kids, rock and roll.
Nobody tells you where to go, baby.

What if I ride? What if you walk?
What if you rock around the clock?
Tick-tock. Tick-tock.
What if you did? What if you walk?
What if you tried to get off, baby?

Hey, kids, where are you?
Nobody tells you what to do, baby.

Hey kids, shake a leg.
Maybe you're crazy in the head, baby.

Maybe you did. Maybe you walked.
Maybe you rocked around the clock.
Tick-tock. Tick-tock.
Maybe I ride. Maybe you walk.
Maybe I drive to get off, baby.

Hey kids, shake a leg.
Maybe you're crazy in the head, baby.

Ollie, ollie.
Ollie ollie ollie.
Ollie ollie in come free, baby.

Hey, kids, where are you?
Nobody tells you what to do, baby.

Smack, crack. Shack-a-lack.
Tie another one to your back, baby.

Hey kids, rock and roll.
Nobody tells you where to go, baby.

Maybe you did. Maybe you walk.
Maybe you rock around the clock
Tick-tock. Tick-tock.
Maybe I ride. Maybe you walk.
Maybe I drive to get off, baby.

Hey kids, where are you?
Nobody tells you what to do, baby.

Hey kids, rock and roll.
Nobody tells you where to go, baby, baby, baby.


3.Funtime(Live)(1992)

Funtime

(A cover of a track by Iggy Pop, David Bowie and James
Osterberg.)

(Fun!) baby, baby, we like your lips
(Fun!) baby, baby, we love your pants
All aboard for Fun Time

(Fun!) baby, baby, we ham to Dracula
(Fun!) oh, and his hips
All aboard for Fun Time

(Fun!) baby, baby, we want in
(Fun!) we want some, we want some
All aboard For Fun Time

(Fun!) baby, baby, we want in
(Fun!) we want some, we want some
All aboard for Fun Time

All aboard for Fun Time
All aboard for Fun Time
All aboard for Fun Time

Fun!


4.Radio Free Europe(Live)(1992)

Lyricist:Bill BerryMichael StipeMike MillsPeter Buck
Writer(s):Bill BerryMichael StipeMike MillsPeter Buck

Beside yourself if radio's gonna stay
Reason:it could polish up the grey
Put that, put that, put that up your wall
That this isn't country at all

Raving station, beside yourself

Keep me out of country in the word
Deal the porch is leading us absurd
Push that, push that, push that to the hull
That this isn't nothing at all

Straight off the boat, where to go?
Calling on in transit, calling on in transit
Radio free europe

Beside defying media too fast
Instead of pushing palaces to fall
Put that, put that, put that before all
That this isn't fortunate at all

Raving station, beside yourself
Calling on in transit, calling on in transit
Radio free europe

Decide yourself, calling all of the medias too fast

Keep me out of country in the word
Disappoint is into us absurd

Straight off the boat, where to go?
Calling on in transit, calling on in transit
Radio free europe, free europe
Calling on in transit, calling on in transit
Radio free europe, free europe