Beat A Drum
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ArtistREM
Album(s) In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003    (Track 9)
Reveal    (Track 4)
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Beat A Drum Lyrics
The sun reflected in
The back of my eye.
I knocked my head against the sky.

The dragonflies are busy buzzing me.
A seahorse as if we were in the sea.
Half way from coal
Half way from diamond.
My fall knocked a mean chip out of me.
Gathering as far as I can reach.
Perched up on a precipice
And this is what I`ve seen.

This is all I want,
It`s all I need.
This is all I am.
This is all I want,
It`s all I need.

A bluejay hectors from the felled Catalpa tree.
Doctorate in science and a theologians dream

The dragonflies are trying to lecture me.
The seahorses as if we were in the sea.

But this is all I want,
It`s all I need.
This is all I am,
It`s everything.
This is all I want,
It`s all I need.

Beat a drum for me
Like a butterfly wing.
Tropical storm across the ocean.

But don`t explain I`m sure I`ll want to know
Don`t forget we`re just half way from coal.

This is all I want,
It`s all I need.
This is all I am,
It`s everything.
This is all I want,
It`s all I need



 

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