JUEVES - LYRICS ("It's The End Of The World As We Know It - REM")

- It's The End Of The World As We Know It - REM
 
That's great! It starts with an earthquake,
birds and snakes, an aeroplane,
and Lenny Bruce is not afraid.
 
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn.
World serves its own needs, don't mis-serve your own needs.
Speed it up a notch, speed, grunt, no strength.
The ladder starts to clatter with fear of height, down height.
Wire in a fire, representing seven games
in a government for hire and a combat site.
Left of west and 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 Food,
but it'll do. Save yourself, serve yourself.
World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed.
Tell me with the rapture and the reverent in the right, right.
You vitriolic, 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, bloodletting.
Every motive escalates. Automotive incinerate.
Light a candle, light a votive.
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 alternatives
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 time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.
(It's time I had some time alone)
I feel fine.
 
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, and I feel fine.
(It's time I had some time alone)
 
The other night I tripped at Knox
continental drift divide.
Mountains sit in a line
Leonard Bernstein, Leonid Brezhnev
Lenny Bruce, and Lester Bangs.
Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly beans, boom!
You symbiotic, patriotic, slam, but neck, 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, and I feel fine.
(It's time I had some time alone)
 
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 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)
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.
(It's time I had some time alone) (x2)
 
- Notas: El autor de la canción indica que durante un tiempo tuvo muchos sueños sobre el fin del mundo, y esos sueños (o lo que recuerda de ellos) eran un conjunto de imágenes sueltas, inconexas, y de difícil interpretación, similares a estar cambiando de canal en la tele sin detenerse más que unos breves segundos en cada uno. Es por ello que articula la canción del mismo modo, uniendo un montón de elementos que son difíciles de interpretar, o difíciles de enlazar unos con otros, y que además siguen criterios estéticos como buscar palabras con vocales que obliguen a simular una sonrisa a la hora de pronunciarlas. Entre esas imágenes que componen este collage están:
- "That's great; it starts with an earthquake", en referencia al libro del Apocalipsis 11,19, donde se indica que el fin del mundo empieza con un terremoto.
- "Leonard Bernstein, Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce, and Lester Bangs", que viene de un sueño en el que el autor está en una fiesta en la que las iniciales de todo el mundo eran L.B.
- "The other night I tripped at Knox" ser refiere a una noche de diversion pasada por la banda en el Knox College de Gasburg, Illinois.
- "…jelly bean. Lester Bangs, boom…", alude a una noche de fiesta en la casa de un periodista donde lo único que había para comer eran gominolas ("jelly beans") y tarta, pero como estaban más hambrientos que Carpanta se pegaron un atracón.
- 1. “…churn…” = "Agitarse o revolver", en relación con el "hurricane" que te hace dar vueltas y vueltas.
- 1. “…mis-serve…” = "Servir mal", como haría un mal camarero en un restaurante penoso. Como el mundo solo sirve a sus propias necesidades, el cantante exhorta a no maltratarse uno mismo.
- 1. “…notch…” = "Marca / muesca" en ese caso es un puntito mas que hay que subir a la velocidad.
- 1. “…grunt …” = "Gruñido" de queja o protesta.
- 1. “…baffled …” = "Desconcertar", como hacen los periodistas con sus noticias (según el cantante).
- 1. “…trump…” = "Falsificar" información, lo que le atribuye a los periodistas (según el cantante).
- 1. “…tethered crop…” = "Cortan / manipulan" la información para dejarlo todo bien atado.
- 1. “…Common Food …” = "Comida tradicional", que hasta esa acaba presentando problemas, ya que no se salva nada de contribuir al fin del mundo.
- 1. “…rapture…” = Antes del fin del mundo se producirá el "rapture" o abducción por parte de Dios de los buenos para ahorrarles el sufrimiento del apocalipsis.
- 1. “…vitriolic…” = "Virulento".
- 1. “…bloodletting…” = "Sangría, orgía de sangre".
- 1. “…continental drift…” = La "deriva continental".