E-Bow the Letter Lyrics by REM

E-Bow the Letter Lyrics

    Look up, what do you see?
    All of you and all of me
    Fluorescent and starry
    Some of them, they surprise

    The bus ride, I went to write this, 4:00 a.m.
    This letter
    Fields of poppies, little pearls
    All the boys and all the girls sweet-toothed
    Each and every one a little scary
    I said your name

    I wore it like a badge of teenage film stars
    Hash bars, cherry mash and tinfoil tiaras
    Dreaming of Maria Callas
    Whoever she is
    This fame thing, I don't get it
    I wrap my hand in plastic to try to look through it
    Maybelline eyes and girl-as-boy moves
    I can take you far
    This star thing, I don't get it

    I'll take you over, there
    I'll take you over, there
    Aluminum, tastes like fear
    Adrenaline, it pulls us near

    I'll take you over
    It tastes like fear, there
    I'll take you over

    Will you live to 83?
    Will you ever welcome me?
    Will you show me something that nobody else has seen?
    Smoke it, drink
    Here comes the flood
    Anything to thin the blood
    These corrosives do their magic slowly and sweet
    Phone, eat it, drink
    Just another chink
    Cuts and dents, they catch the light
    Aluminum, the weakest link

    I don't want to disappoint you
    I'm not here to anoint you
    I would lick your feet
    But is that sickest move?
    I wear my own crown and sadness and sorrow
    And who'd have thought tomorrow could be so strange?
    My loss, and here we go again

    I'll take you over, there
    I'll take you over, there
    Aluminum, tastes like fear
    Adrenaline, it pulls us near

    I'll take you over
    It tastes like fear, there
    I'll take you over

    Look up, what do you see?
    All of you and all of me
    Fluorescent and starry
    Some of them, they surprise

    I can't look it in the eyes
    Seconal, spanish fly, absinthe, kerosene
    Cherry-flavored neck and collar
    I can smell the sorrow on your breath
    The sweat, the victory and sorrow
    The smell of fear, I got it

    I'll take you over, there
    I'll take you over, there
    Aluminum, tastes like fear
    Adrenaline, it pulls us near

    I'll take you over
    It tastes like fear, there
    I'll take you over

    Pulls us near
    Tastes like fear..

    Nearer, nearer
    over, over, over, over
    Yeah, look over
    I'll take you there, oh, yeah
    I'll take you there
    Oh, over
    I'll take you there
    Over, let me
    I'll take you there..
    There, there, baby, yeah

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