Beat A Drum - Demo by R.E.M.
Time: 04:27
Track #12 of disk 2 from the album In Time: The Best Of R.E.M., 1988-2003.
Written by: STIPE, MICHAEL / MILLS, MIKE / BUCK, PETER
Published by: Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
Lyrics
The sun reflected in the back of my eye
I knocked my head against the sky
The dragonflies are busy buzzing me
Seahorses if we were in the sea
Halfway from coal, halfway to diamond.
My fall knocked a mean chip out of me.
I'm gathering as far as I can reach
We're perched up on the precipice
And this is what I've seen
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.
A Blue Jay hectors from the felled catalpa tree
Doctorate in science and a theologian's
Dream
The dragonflies are trying to lecture me
Seahorses if we were in the sea
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.
But don't forget, we're just halfway 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.
