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

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
Dummy serve your own needs
Feed it off an aux
Speak, grunt, no, strength
The ladder starts to clatter
With fear fight down height

Wire in a fire
Representing seven games
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, trumped, tethered cropped
Look at that low playing
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
Dummy with the rapture and the revered
And 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 towers
Slash and burn, return
Listen to yourself churn

Locking in, uniforming
Book burning, blood letting
Every motive escalate
Automotive incinerate

Light a candle, light a votive
Step down, step down
Watch your heel crush, crushed
Uh oh, this means no fear cavalier
Renegade steer clear

A tournament, 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 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)

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

The other night I dreamt of knives
Continental drift divide
Mountains sit in a line
Leonard Bernstein

Leonid Brezhnev
Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs
Birthday party, cheesecake
Jelly bean, boom

You symbiotic, patriotic
Slam book 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
(It's time I had some time alone)
And 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
(It's time I had some time alone)
And 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
(It's time I had some time alone)
And 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
(It's time I had some time alone)
And I feel fine

(It's time I had some time alone)

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