It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (Unplugged, Live 1991)

[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

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 plane, 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 raptured and the revered and the right, right

You vitriolic, patriotic, slam foot neck, right

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 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, 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

And I feel fine

(I feel fine)

Fine

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

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 beans, (explosion noise)!

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

And I feel fine

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

And I feel fine

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

And I feel fine

[Outro]

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, 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

Fine, fine, fine, fine-nuh

[Outro, spoken]

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Thank you

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