Roads

R.E.M. - „Leave“ (Alternate Version)

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Nothing could bring me closer

Nothing could bring me near

Where is the road I follow

To leave, leave?

 

It′s under, under, under my feet

The sea spread out there before me

Where do I go when the land touches the 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, believe 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 it, believe 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

 

That's what keeps me

That's what keeps me

That′s what keeps me down

To leave it, believe it

Leave it all behind

 

That′s what keeps me

That's what keeps me

That′s what keeps me down

To leave it, believe it

Leave it all behind

 

Lift 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 callin'

To leave, leave

 

Leave, leave

 

Leavin', leavin′

Done