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Document by R.E.M - Album Lyrics & Tracks

R.E.M•1987 Released•Alternative Rock•United States
Tracks: 11
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Duration: 39:49
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Label: I.R.S. Records
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Complete Album Tracklist

1

Finest Worksong

03:50
2

Welcome to the Occupation

02:48
3

Exhuming McCarthy

03:21
4

Disturbance at the Heron House

03:34
5

Strange

02:33
6

It’s the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine)

04:07
7

The One I Love

03:17
8

Fireplace

03:24
9

Lightnin’ Hopkins

03:21
10

King of Birds

04:20
11

Oddfellows Local 151

05:10

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Document Complete Lyrics

Finest Worksong Lyrics

[Verse 1]
The time to rise has been engaged
You'd better best to rearrange
I'm talking here, to me alone
I listen to the finest work song
 
[Chorus]
Your finest hour
Your finest hour
 
[Verse 2]
Another chance has been engaged
To throw Thoreau and rearrange
You are following this time
I beg you not, beg to rhyme
 
[Chorus]
Oh-oh, your finest hour
Oh-oh, your finest hour
 
[Verse 3]
Take your instinct by the reins
You'd better best to rearrange
What we want and what we need
Has been confused, been confused
 
 
[Chorus]
Oh-oh, your finest hour
Oh-oh, your finest hour
 
[Verse 4]
Take your instinct by the reins
Better best to rearrange
What we want and what we need
Has been confused, been confused
 
[Chorus]
Oh-oh, your finest hour
Oh-oh, your finest hour
Oh-oh, your finest hour
Oh-oh, your finest hour

Welcome to the Occupation Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Hang your collar up inside
Hang your dollar on me
Listen to the water still
Listen to the causeway you are
 
[Refrain]
Fed and educated
Primitive and wild
Welcome to the occupation
 
[Verse 2]
Here we stand and here we fight
All your fallen heroes
Held and dyed and skinned alive
Listen to the Congress fire
 
[Refrain]
Offering the educated
Primitive and loyal
Welcome to the occupation
 
[Verse 3]
Hang your collar up inside
Hang your freedom higher
Listen to the buyer still
Listen to the Congress
 
 
[Refrain]
Where we propagate confusion
Primitive and wild
Fire on the hemisphere below
 
[Instrumental Bridge]
 
[Verse 4]
Sugar cane and coffee cup
Copper, steel and cattle
An annotated history
The forest for the fire
 
[Refrain]
Where we open up the floodgates
Freedom reigns supreme
Fire on the hemisphere below
 
[Outro]
Listen to me
Listen to me
Listen to me
Listen to me
Listen to me
Listen to me
Listen to me

King of Birds Lyrics

[Verse 1]
A thumbnail sketch, a jeweler's stone
A mean idea to call my own
Old man, don't lay so still, you're not yet young, there's time to teach
Point to point, point observation, children carry reservations
 
[Chorus]
Standing on the shoulders of giants
Leaves me cold
Leaves me cold
A mean idea to call my own
A hundred million birds fly
 
[Verse 2]
Singer, sing me a given
Singer, sing me a song
Standing on the shoulders of giants (Old man, don't lay so still, you're not yet young, there's time to teach)
Everybody's looking on (Point to point, point observation, children carry reservations)
 
[Chorus]
Standing on the shoulders of giants
Leaves me cold
A mean idea to call my own
A hundred million birds fly away
 
[Post-Chorus]
Away
Away
 
 
[Verse 3]
I am the king of all I see
My kingdom for a voice
Old man, don't lay so still, you're not yet young, there's time to teach
Point to point, point observation, children carry reservations
 
[Chorus]
Standing on the shoulders of giants
Leaves me cold
Leaves me cold
A mean idea to call my own
A hundred million birds fly away
 
[Post-Chorus]
Away
Away
 
[Outro]
Everybody hit the ground
Everybody hit the ground
Everybody hit the ground
Everybody hit the ground
Everybody hit the ground
Everybody hit the ground
Everybody hit the ground
Everybody hit the ground