Living Well Is the Best Revenge

[Verse 1: Michael Stipe]

It's only when your poison spins

Into the life you'd hoped to live

That suddenly you wake up in a shaken panic

Now

You set me up like a lamb to slaughter

Garbo as a farmer's daughter

Unbelievable, the gospel according to who?

I lay right down

[Chorus: Michael Stipe]

All your sad and lost apostles

Hum my name and flare their nostrils

Choking on the bones you toss to them

Well, I'm not one to sit and spin

'Cause living well's the best revenge

Baby, I am calling you on that

[Verse 2: Michael Stipe]

Don't turn your talking points on me

History will set me free

The future is ours and you don't even rate a footnote

Now

So who's chasing you? Where did you go?

You disappear mid-sentence

In a judgement crisis, I see my in and go for it

You weakened shill

[Chorus: Michael Stipe, Mike Mills]

All your sad and lost apostles (All your sad and)

Hum my name and flare their nostrils (Lost apostles)

Choking on the bones you toss to them (Choking on the bones)

Well, I'm not one to sit and spin (Well, I'm not one to)

'Cause living well's the best revenge (Sit and spin 'cause)

Baby, I am calling you on that

[Bridge: Michael Stipe]

You savor your dying breath

Well, I forgive but I don't forget

You work it out, let's hear that argument again

Camera three, go, now

[Chorus: Michael Stipe, Mike Mills]

All your sad and lost apostles (All your sad and)

Hum my name and flare their nostrils (Lost apostles)

Choking on the bones you toss to them (Choking on the bones)

Well, I'm not one to sit and spin (Well I'm not one to)

'Cause living well's the best revenge (Sit and spin 'cause)

Baby, I am calling you on that

[Outro: Michael Stipe, Mike Mills]

Baby, I am calling you on that

Baby, I am calling you out

(Baby, I am calling you out)