Artist: R.E.M. Album: Eponymous Song: It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) Year: 1988 Top Chart Position: unknown

That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds, snakes, an aeroplane - Lenny Bruce is not afraid. Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself curn world serves it's own needs, don't misserve your own needs. Feed it up a knock, speed, grunt no, strength no. Ladder structure clatter with fear of height, down height. Wire in a fire represent the seven games in a government for hire and a combat site. Left her, wasn't coming in a hurry with the furies breathing down your neck. Team by team reporters baffled, trump, tethered crop. Look at that low plane! Fine then. Uh oh, overflow, population, common group, but it'll do. Save yourself, serve yourself. World seves it's own needs, listen to your heart bleed. Tell me with the rapture and the reverent in the right - right. You virtriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright light, feeling pretty psyched. It's the end of the world as we know it It's the end of the world as we know it It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine Six o'clock - TV hour. Don't get caught in foreign tower. Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself churn. Lock him in uniform and book burning, blood letting. Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate. Light a candle, light a motive. Step down, step down. Watch a heel crush, crush. Uh oh, this means no fear - cavalier. Renegade and steer clear. A tournament, a tournament, a tournament of lies. Offer me solutions, offer me alternative and I decline. It's the end of the world as we know it It's the end of the world as we know it It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine I feel fine It's the end of the world as we know it It's the end of the world as we know it It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine The other night I tripped a nice continental drift diveid. Mount St. Edelite. Leonard Bernstein. Leonid Breshnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs. Birthday party, cheescake, jellybean boom! You symbiotic, patriotic, slam, but neck, right? Right. It's the end of the world as we know it It's the end of the world as we know it It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine It's the end of the world as we know it It's the end of the world as we know it It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine It's the end of the world as we know it It's the end of the world as we know it It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine It's the end of the world as we know it It's the end of the world as we know it It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine

This one is pretty straight-forward. Once again, R.E.M. is making a statement about our world. They are offering the same rapid-fire style that Billy Joel gives us in "We Didn't Start the Fire." R.E.M. tells us about all of the things that are wrong with the world, and how it is going to hell in a handbasket. They offer no solutions, but announcing the problem is at least a step toward a solution.