From Wordsworth to Michael Stipe. It’s hard to believe this song was written in 1987 and not in response to the 2016 presidental election.<\/p>\n
“…Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn.
\nWorld serves its own needs, dummy, serve your own needs.
\nFeed it off an aux speak, grunt, no strength.
\nThe ladder starts to clatter with fear fight, down, height.
\nWire in a fire, representing seven games
\nIn a government for hire and a combat site.
\nLeft of west and coming in a hurry
\nWith the furies breathing down your neck<\/p>\n
Team by team reporters baffled, trumped, tethered, cropped.
\nLook at that low playing! Fine, then.
\nUh oh, overflow, population, common group
\nBut it’ll do. Save yourself, serve yourself.
\nWorld serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed,
\nDummy, with the rapture and the rev-‘rent and the right, right.
\nYou vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright light
\nFeeling pretty psyched.<\/p>\n
It’s the end of the world as we know it.
\nIt’s the end of the world as we know it.
\nIt’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.<\/p>\n
Six o’clock – TV hour.
\nDon’t get caught in foreign towers.
\nSlash and burn, return.
\nListen to yourself churn.
\nLocking in uniforming, book burning, bloodletting.
\nEvery motive escalate, automotive incinerate.
\nLight a candle, light a motive.
\nStep down, step down.
\nWatch your heel crush, crushed.
\nUh oh, this means no fear, cavalier.
\nRenegade steer clear!
\nA tournament, a tournament,
\nA tournament of lies.
\nOffer me solutions, offer me alternatives
\nAnd I decline.<\/p>\n
It’s the end of the world as we know it
\nIt’s the end of the world as we know it (I had some time alone)
\nIt’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine (It’s time I had some time alone)
\nI feel fine…”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
With the sorry result of this election season, I agree with R.E.M. from almost 30 years ago and say,<\/p>\n
I decline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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