R.E.M. - Green

Hairshirt

I am not the type of dog
That could keep you waiting
For no good reason
Run a carbon-black test on my jaw
And you will find it's all been said before

I can swing my megaphone
And long arm the rest
It's easier and better
To just beat it from the chest
Of desire

I could walk into this room
And the waves of conversation are enough
To knock you down in the undertow
So alone, so alone in my life
Feed me banks of light
And hang your hairshirt on the lowest rung

It's a beautiful life
And I can hang my hairshirt
Away up high in the attic of
The wrong dog's life chest
Or bury it at sea
All my life I've searched for this

Here I am, here I am
In your life
It's a beautiful life
My life
It's a beautiful life
Your life



Credits
Writer(s): Peter Lawrence Buck, Michael E. Mills, John Michael Stipe, William Thomas Berry
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Other Album Tracks

  1. Pop Song 89
  2. Get Up
  3. You Are The Everything
  4. Stand
  5. World Leader Pretend
  6. The Wrong Child
  7. Orange Crush
  8. Turn You Inside Out
  9. Hairshirt
  10. I Remember California

All Album Tracks: Green >

Altri album

  1. We Are Hope Despite The Times
  2. R.E.M. - Live from the Pyramid Stage, Glastonbury Festival, June 25, 1999
  3. R.E.M.'s Top Forty Playlist (according to Berry, Buck, Mills and Stipe)
  4. Up (25th Anniversary Edition)
  5. The Apologist (Live At The Palace / 1999)
  6. Losing My Religion (Live At The Palace / 1999)
  7. Daysleeper (Live At The Palace / 1999)
  8. Strange Currencies - Single
  9. Pale Blue Eyes - Live American Radio Broadcast
  10. New Adventures In Hi-Fi (25th Anniversary Edition)

All Albums of R.E.M. >

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