Leave - R.E.M.

Nothing could bring me closer

Nothing could bring me near

Where is the road I follow

To leave it?

Leave

It’s under, under, under my feet

The sea spread out there before me

Where do I go when the land touches sea?

There is my trust in what I believe

That’s what keeps me, that’s what keeps me

That’s what keeps me down

To leave it, leave it

Leave it all behind

Shifting the dream

Nothing could bring me further from my old friend time

Shifting the dream, it’s charging the scene

I know where I marked the signs

I suffer the dreams of a world gone mad

I like it like that, and I know it

I know it well, ugly and sweet

I temper madness with an even extreme

That’s what keeps me, that’s what keeps me

That’s what keeps me down

I say that I’m a bantam lightweight

I say that I’m a phantom airplane that never left the ground

That’s what keeps me, that’s what keeps me

That’s what keeps me down

To leave, leave it

Leave it all behind

Lift me, lift me

I attain my dream

I lost myself, I lost the

Heartache calling me

I lost myself in sorrow

I lost myself in pain

I lost myself in gravity

Memory, leave, leave, leave

That’s what keeps me, that’s what keeps me

That’s what keeps me down

To leave it, leave it

Leave it all behind

That’s what keeps me, that’s what keeps me

That’s what keeps me down

To leave it, leave it

Leave it all behind

My hands, my eyes are still

I’ll walk into the sea

Shoot myself in a different place

And leave it

I’ve longed for this to take me

I’ve longed for my release

I’ve waited for the calling

To leave, leave

Leave, leave

Leaving

Leaving, leaving