Michael Stipe Reveals Correct Lyrics to R.E.M.'s "It's the End of the World As We Know It"
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Michael Stipe Reveals Correct Lyrics to R.E.M.'s "It's the End of the World As We Know It"
""It's 'Left of west and coming in a hurry with the Furies breathing down your neck,'""
""It's 'Team by team reporters, baffled, trumped, tethered, cropped, Look at that low playing, fine, then',""
""There's a part in 'It's The End Of The World As We Know It' that came from a dream where I was at Lester Bangs' birthday party and I was the only person there whose initials weren't L.B. So there was Lenny Bruce, Leonid Brezhnev, Leonard Bernstein," he shared. "So that ended up in the song along with a lot of stuff I'd seen when I was flipping TV channels.""
Michael Stipe used Bluesky to post corrected lines of R.E.M.'s 1987 song "It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)." He first shared a Simpsons meme and then posted the accurate lyric lines, including "Left of west and coming in a hurry with the Furies breathing down your neck" and the corrected rapid-fire stanza. Many lyric websites have been displaying incorrect words for years, while Spotify licenses correct lyrics from MusixMatch. Stipe previously said parts of the song came from a dream and from channel-surfing impressions.
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