It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

Lyrics

[Intro] That's great, it starts with an earthquake Birds and snakes, an aeroplane Lenny Bruce is not afraid, let's go [Verse 1] Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn World serves it's own needs, dummy serve your own needs Feed it off an aux speak, grunt, no, strength Ladder start to clatter with fear fight down height Wire in a fire, representing seven games And a government for hire and a combat site Left of west and coming in a hurry With the furies breathing down your neck [Verse 2] Team by team reporters baffled Trumped, tethered cropped Look at that low plane, fine, then Uh oh, overflow, population, common group 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 [Chorus] 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 [Verse 3] 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, bloodletting 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 [Chorus] 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, and I feel fine, and I feel fine [Verse 4] 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 Alarm book neck, right? Right [Chorus] 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 (It's time I had some time alone) And I feel fine [Chorus] 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 (It's time I had some time alone) And I feel fine [Chorus] 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