WHEE-HAW!! - Collapse Into Now

REM - Collapse Into Now (March 8, 2011)

Discoverer
All the Best
Uberlin
Oh My Heart
It Happened Today
Every Day is Yours to Win
Mine Smell Like Honey
Walk It Back
Alligator Aviator Autopilot Antimatter
That Someone Is You
Me, Marlon Brando, Marlon Brando and I
Blue



Discoverer


Hey baby
This is not a challenge
Just means that I love you as much as I always said I did
I was wrong
I have been laughable wrong
Sandpaper, paper maché chalk, hung out wet

I was sick
We are scared now
But nanananana-na…

I didn't have to be afraid
I didn't have to feel so stupid
I can see myself
I can feel...

With just the slightest bit of finesse
I'd have made a little less mess
But it was what it was
Let's all get on with it, Now!

Discoverer! Discoverer! Discoverer! Discoverer!
We're laughing…
Discoverer!

From across Houston
That's where I am
I see the city rise up tall

The opportunities
Possibilities
Well, I have never felt so calm

Remember, the vodka special night of discovery
Remember that
Laughing, discovery
Oh how I look back and reflect
How I felt it, how I said
I don't have to feel so wrong
Now, wake and turn yourself on tonight and grasp…

With just the slightest bit of finesse
I'd have made a little less mess
But it was what it was
Let's all get on with it, Now!

Just the slightest bit of finesse
I'd have made a little less mess
But it was what it was
Let's all get on with it, Now!

Discoverer! Discoverer! Discoverer! Discoverer! Discoverer!



All The Best


So over me
so pie in my face
So talk to me
Tell me where to place this in my Quasimodo heart
That's where I slipped and fell
I rang the church bell 'til my ears bled red blood cells

I think I'll sing it a rhyme
I'll give it one more time
I'll show the kids how to do it fine, fine, fine

I hold the mirror up
You tell me what is what
You tell me which part of my story baby stuck, stuck, stuck
I'm in a part of your dreams
That you don't even understand
It's just like me to overstay my welcome man

Let's sing it a rhyme
Let's give it one more time
Let's show the kids how to do it fine, fine, fine, fine

Oh...

I just had to get that off my chest
Now it's time to get on with the best of the best
of the best
All the best
All the best, best, best

It's just like me to overstay my welcome, yes

Let's sing it a rhyme
Let's give it one more time
Let's show the kids how to do it fine, fine, fine
Let's sing it a rhyme
Let's give it one more time
Let's show the kids how to do it fine, fine, fine, fine



Uberlin


hey now
take your pills
and
hey now
make your breakfast
hey now
comb your hair and off to work

crash land
no illusions
no collision
no intrusion
my imagination run away

I know, I know, I know what I am chasing
I know, I know, I know that this is changing me

I am flying on a star into a meteor tonight
I am flying on a star, star, star
I will make it through the day
and then the day becomes the night
I will make it through the night

ah hey now
take the u-bahn
five stops, change the station
hey now
don't forget: the change will save you

hey now
count a thousand million people
that's astounding
chasing through the city with their stars on bright

I know, I know, I know what I am chasing
I know, I know, I know that this is changing me

I am flying on a star into a meteor tonight
I am flying on a star, star, star
I will make it through the day
and then the day becomes the night
I will make it through the night

Well I don't mind repeating
I am not complete
I have never been the gifted type

well hey man
tell me something
are you off to somewhere?
do you want to go with me tonight?

I know, I know, I know that this is changing
we walk the streets to feel the ground
I'm chasing through Berlin

I am flying on a star into a meteor tonight
I am flying on a star, star, star
I will make it through the day
and then the day becomes the night
I will make it through the night



Oh My Heart


The kids have a new take
A new take on faith
Pick up the pieces
Get carried away

I came home to a city half-erased
I came home to face
What we faced
This place needs me here to start
This place is the beat of my heart

Oh my heart
Oh my heart
(Oh my heart)

Oh my heart
Oh my heart
(Oh my heart)

The storm didn't kill me
The government changed
Hear the answer and call, hear this song re-arranged
Hear the trees, the ghosts and the buildings sing
With the wisdom to reconcile this thing

It's sweet
And it's sad
And it's true
How it doesn't look bitter on you

Oh my heart
Oh my heart
(Oh my heart)

Oh my heart
Oh my heart
(Oh my heart)

Mother and father
I stand beside you
The good of this world might help see me through
This place needs me here to start
This place is the beat of my heart

Oh my heart
Oh my heart
(Oh my heart)

Oh my heart
Oh my heart
(Oh my heart)

Oh my heart
Oh my heart
(Oh my heart)

Oh my heart
Oh my heart
(Oh my heart)



It Happened Today


This is not a parable
This is a terrible
This is a terrible thing

Yes I will rhyme that, after, after all I've done today
I have earned my wings

It happened today. Hooray! Hooray!
It happened. Hip, hip, hooray!

We'll be the allegory to another Bible story
Out of deference, defiance, and choice
Closing on a promise, after, after all I've done today
I have earned my voice

It happened today.
Hooray! Hooray!
It happened.
Hip, hip, hooray!



Everyday is Yours to Win

With the walk
and the talk
and the tic-toc clock

With the rock
and the roll
and the bridge
and the toll

With the brilliance
and the light
with the stink
and the height
and the road ahead of you.

I cannot tell a lie
It's not all cherry pie
But it's all there waiting for you
Yeah you

Hey yea (Hey yea)
Hey yea (Hey yea)
I know

With the walk
And the woo's
And the subterfuge
Does it all look bitter and blue

While nothing but confused
with nothing left to lose
and if you buy that
I've got a bridge for you

Hey yea (Hey yea)
Hey yea (Hey yea)
I know
Hey yea (Hey yea)
Hey yea (Hey yea)
I know

Oh...Oh
Oh...Oh

Every day is new again
Every day is yours to win
That's how heroes are made

I wanted to win
so I've said it again:
That's how heroes are made

Hey yea (Hey yea)
Hey yea (Hey yea)
I know

Hey yea (Hey yea)
Hey yea (Hey yea)
I know

Ah...



Mine Smell Like Honey


I would dare you, but I know I don’t need to
You’re going to do just what you want to
You’re going to take the leavings there at the fairground
You’re going to sing the praises of your fruit

Mine smell like honey, uh!
Mine smell like honey, uh!
Mine smell like hu, hu, hu, hu, honey, uh!

Dig a hole, dig it deeper, deeper!
Climb a mountain, climb it steeper, steeper!
Dig a hole, dig it deeper, deeper!
Track a trail of honey through it all

If the end comes faster than we had expected
And predictions lead us to a final fall
If the flowers crack the grain and leave the patterns of the pavement
I can hear you shouting over it all

Mine smell like honey, uh!
Mine smell like honey, uh!
Mine smell like hu, hu, hu, hu, honey, uh!

Dig a hole, dig it deeper, deeper!
Climb a mountain, climb it steeper, steeper!
Dig a hole, dig it deeper, deeper!
Track a trail of honey through it all

Dig a hole, dig it deeper, deeper!
Climb a mountain, climb it steeper, steeper!
Dig a hole, dig it deeper, deeper!
Track a trail of honey through it all

You track a trail of honey through it all
You track a trail of honey through it all
You track a trail of honey



Walk It Back

Walk it back
Walk it back
Walk it back
What, what would you
Have had me say
Instead of what I said

Where, where would I go
How could I follow that
Except to do what I did

Which is to
Walk it back
Walk it back
Hmmm... Walk it back

Time reversing me why
erasing me vice
try to start again

You, don't you turn this around
I have not touch the ground in
I don't know how long

You say to
Walk it back
Walk it back
Walk it back
Hmmm... Walk it back
Walk it back
Walk it back

Time, time, time it cannot abide
You, you can't turn away
You've asked me to stay
but something needs to change

Why can't you
Walk it back
Hmmm...Walk it back
Walk it back

Walk it back
Walk it back
Hmmm....Walk it back



Alligator Aviator Autopilot Antimatter

I feel like an alligator
Coming up the escalator
Coming up the escalator
I feel strong

I feel like an aviator pilot
Bet you wouldn't buy it
I'm feeling violent
Bet your bleeding eye it,
Turn up to fly it
Hey, hey, alligator, you've got a lot to learn
I have got a, have got a lot to learn

I feel like an autopilot
I'm the road's strongest siren
I feel like a rage coming under my hood
I feel good and calm like a robot would

I feel like an autopilot
I feel like an autopilot
I am not a hater, hater, hater, hater, hater
Hey, hey, alligator, you've got a lot to learn
I have got a, have got a lot to learn

I feel like a contradiction
I'm a walking science-fiction
I don't know which way to turn
I've got a lot to burn
I've got a lot, a lot to burn

If I didn't like the way you stared at me
If I didn't like the way you stared at me
I could knock you sideways, I could knock you blind
I could show you found to the lost and find

I am not an agitator
But I feel like an alligator
Climbing up the escalator...
Hey, hey, alligator, you've got a lot to learn
I have got, have got a lot to learn

I've got so much to learn
You got a lot to learn...



That Someone Is You


With the restraint of New Order covers and marble giants
I sat quietly waiting
For someone else to make the first move
Someone has to make the first move...

That someone is you
That someone is you
That someone has pulled me up and out of cartoon quicksand
Pulled me up and out of me!

And with the fury lock of Sharon Stone Casino
Scarface, Al Pacino
'74 Torino

I need someone else to make the first move
Someone has to make the first move

That someone is you
That someone is you
That someone has pulled me up and out of cartoon quicksand
Pulled me up and out of me!

You pulled me up and out of cartoon quicksand
Pulled me up and out of me!



Me, Marlon Brando, Marlon Brando and I


We live and dream about the future
Please ask me up I need to count well now
Sit through the annals of our favorite times
Our heroes and all their fade out thoughts
Me, Marlon Brando, Marlon Brando and I say

Lay me down, down, down, down
Lay me down, down, down, down, down
Help me off to sleep
Or take me deep again

We live and dream about our heroes
I listened closely and I said
I'm not sure where to place myself here friend
I might wanna go on wings instead
The winners write the rule books
The histories are never right

Lay me down, down, down, down
Lay me down, down, down, down, down
Help me off to sleep (down down down)
Or take me deep again (down down down)
I heard what you said (down down down)
I picture brass rings in your head
What golden [Brahms] in my mind
Our brass is mixed with red

Alternate lyrics:

We live and dream about the future.
Please ask Neil, I need to pow-wow now.
So through the annals of our flavored times
Our heroes and all their fatal flaws.

Me, Marlon Brando, Marlon Brando and I, sing...
Lay me down, down, down, down
Lay me down, down, down, down, down

Help me off to sleep
And take me deep again

We live and dream about our heroes
I listened closely and I said
"I'm not sure where to place myself here, friend.
I might pawn the gold rings instead."

The winners write the rulebooks, the histories and lullabies

Lay me down, down, down, down
Lay me down, down, down, down, down

Help me off to sleep
(down, down, down)
Take me deep again
(down, down, down)
I heard what you said
(take me down, down, down)
I picture brass rings in your hair
(down, down, down)
While gold and bronze and bonbons
(down, down, down)
While brasses mixed with lead



Blue


you know the circus left
the stakes are broken amongst useless mud
the ties that bind, ha-ha,
I can be bad poet
Street poet
Shit poet
Kind poet too
subway, almost 4 am Halloween night
I'd had enough to drink to make my own party
all my fellow riders lay in half costume, half asleep,
half silly, gone to seed
I don't mark my time with dates, holidays, faded wisdom [ ]
whatever's convenient
I am made by my times
I am the creation of Now
shaken with the cracks, and crevasses
I'm not getting up easy
I will not fold
I don't have much, but what I have is gold

(Patti) I saw your face
in lifting snow

I sing in platinum
I dress in brass
I eat in zinc
let it pass
Can play a toast
I like that
I understand courage
I still roll with the shadow of a cab driver's attitude [ ]
I try to see outside myself
I understand the eyes
Excuse all highs
Sorry, I am sorry, ha-ha

(Patti) white afternoon

I like you, love you, every coast of you
I see your eddies and tides and hurricanes and cyclones
low ebb tide and a high full moon
up close, and distant
I reach you in the sky, the sea, the ocean, the sun, the moon,
Blue blue blue blue blue blue blue blue blue, naked in blue

(Patti) naked in blue

breathing with you, touch, change, shift
allow air
window open, drift, drift away into Now

I want Whitman proud, Patti Lee proud,
my brothers proud, my sisters proud
I want me, I want it all, I want sensational, irresistible
This is my time and I am thrilled to be alive
living, blessed, I understand
20th century collapse into now

(Patti) Cinderella boy
You lost your shoe
Cinderella boy
Your coach awaits

My solid shadow (Blue blue blue blue blue blue blue blue blue)
a lover's embrace
as you fade
make it heaven
into you



Discoverer Reprise



Lyrics were found first transcribed here, Thanks. With some necessary changes and the addition of "Blue" and "Me, Marlon Brando, Marlon Brandon and I". Block parenthesis are as good as a guess, or somthin's missin'.

Maybe I'll get time to freak out properly about it all a little later. ; )