03.21.2020
In a burst of isolation-inspiration, I took the liberty of re-writing the lyrics to R.E.M.'s alt-rock classic, It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) to fit these strange times...

...hope you dig this reworked blast-from-the-past!

It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) [1]

That’s great, it started in a marketplace
with bats and snakes, then aeroplanes--
Paul Duprex is not afraid.


Climate and its science are warming to the world’s burn,
self-serve your own needs,
write-off all the misdeeds.


Tighten up, stay away, too close, don’t touch
Respiratory clatter with fear of viral splatter,
Set fire to the pyre, smoke rising from the mire
now the doctors aren’t for hire, it’s a combat site.


Lock it down, not leaving in a hurry got the furies
Breathing down your neck


Door to door, countries rattled, bang, breech, pin—drop.
Look at that low plane, terror strikes
Uh oh, oil flow, building roads, seeking drones
Cameras tapped, microphones, acting in a spook show


Banks build, workers bleed, take a temp employee--
Got to watch my neighbors crying in the toilet paper line.
These vitriolic, pathogenic, patriotic troglodytes
The kids aren’t alright


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 [1]


Elections rigged by foreign powers, visits to the Trump Tower
Trees falling far away, monocrop, and over graze
decimate wildlife, protected lands for mining rights
Yellowstone set to blow, rockets look to Mars’ glow


Tickers up, running higher, step down, fall down
watch the bell crash, crash—uh oh.
This means no meal—persevere.
Profiteers and racketeers.


A tournament, a tournament, a tournament of lies,
Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives, we’re out of time.


It's the end of the world as we know it
(It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it
(It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it
(It's time I had some time alone)
And I feel fine
(I feel fine) [1]


It's the end of the world as we know it
(It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it
(It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it
(It's time I had some time alone)
And I feel fine [1]


Yesterday I closed the blinds, watched TV and stayed inside,
Mountain Pass lanthanides, hard-drives and missile guides
CNN, Financial Times, hindsight and sharpened lies
Observation, isolation, information: Boom.
Your contentious, sententious groups know Thunberg’s right, right?


It's the end of the world as we know it
(It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it
(It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it
(It's time I had some time alone)
And I feel fine [1]


It's the end of the world as we know it
(It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it
(It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it
(It's time I had some time alone)
And I feel fine [1]


It's the end of the world as we know it
(It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it
(It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it
(It's time I had some time alone)
And I feel fine [1]


[1] It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) was originally released by R.E.M. with I.R.S. Records on November 16th, 1987. Original songwriters: Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe. Producer: Scott Litt.
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