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Nightswimming ( song lyrics ) … REM

the song lyrics to Nightswimming by Michael Stipe

Nightswimming deserves a quiet night.

The photograph on the dashboard, taken years ago,
turned around backwards so the windshield shows.
Every streetlight reveals a picture in reverse.
Still it’s so much clearer. I forgot my shirt
at the water’s edge. The moon is low tonight.

Nightswimming deserves a quiet night.
I’m not sure all these people understand.
It’s not like years ago. The fear of getting caught,
of recklessness and water. They cannot see me naked.
These things, they go away, replaced by everyday…

Nightswimming. Remembering that night.

September’s coming soon. I’m pining for the moon.
And what if there were two side by side in orbit around the fairest sun?
That bright, tight forever drum could not describe…

Nightswimming.

You, I thought I knew you. You I cannot judge.
You, I thought you knew me;
this one laughing quietly underneath my breath.

Nightswimming.

The photograph reflects. Every streetlight a reminder.

Nightswimming deserves a quiet night.

1992

Bang ( song lyrics ) … Tori Amos

Bang ( song lyrics ) ... Tori Amos

Bang went the gun on their tongue.
Word crucifixion toward immigrants shunned.
“Immigrants; that’s who we all are
cause we’re all made of stars,”
you said to them. Ah yes, you did.

Bang went the universe.
Hydrogen lusting for helium’s burst.
A mighty sun’s dance of death;
exploding supernova.
One story’s end seeds another to begin.

Then the Heavens opened and then I heard voices joined in hosannas.
Breathlessly I saw your star.

So bright, it blinded me. I had to shield my eyes.
So bright, it blinded me. I had to shield my eyes.
So bright, it blinded me. I had to shield my eyes.

And then you took my hand. Oh yes, you did.

Bang! The world now traumatized
by a cluster of hostile humans who side
with their warlords of hate.
So we must out-create
with the backbone of night to rehumanize.

Then the Heavens opened and then I heard voices joined in hosannas.
And their tower of confusion could not drown the light from your star.

So bright, it blinded me. I had to shield my eyes.
So bright, it blinded me. I had to shield my eyes.
So bright, it blinded me. I had to shield my eyes.

And then you lit the path. Oh yes, you did.

“Can’t they see,” he said to me, “that we all are molecular machines?”
Goals and dreams. All I wanna be is the very best machine I can be.

Oxygen and carbon; part of our molecular machine.
Goals and dreams. All I wanna be is the very best machine I can be.

Hydrogen, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sulfur, sodium.
All I wanna be is the very best machine I can be.

Chlorine, magnesium, boron, chromium, cobalt, copper, fluorine.
All I wanna be is the very best machine I can be.

Iodine, iron, manganese, molybdenum, selenium, silicon, tin, vanadium and zinc.
All I wanna be… a molecular machine.

2017