It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) - Live in Chicago / 1995

[Intro, spoken]

Okay, well here we go

Gimme that beat, boy

Free my soul

[Verse 1]

That's great, it starts with an earthquake

Birds and snakes, an aeroplane

Lenny Bruce is not afraid

Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn

World serves its own needs, don't misserve 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

The 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 group

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 reverend in the right, right

You vitriolic, patriotic, slam-foot neck

Feeling pretty psyched

[Chorus]

It's the end of the world as we know it

(It's the)

It's the end of the world as we know it

(It's the)

It's the end of the world as we know it!

And I feel fine!

[Verse 2]

Six o'clock, TV hour, don't get caught in a foreign tower

Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself churn

Lock him in uniform, with 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 and steering clear

A tournament, a 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!

I feel fine! Fine!

(I feel fine)

Uh, fine

Thanks for askin'

[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]

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 but 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 the end of the world as we know it!

I feel fine!

(And I feel fine)

[Bridge]

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!

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

Fine!

[Outro]

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!

[Outro, spoken]

Thank you!