Posted by cheryl (12.36.128.30) on March 09, 2001 at 14:46:24:
words to one of my favorite songs... "REM"
NIGHTSWIMMING (from official lyrics)
Nightswimming deserves a quiet night
The photograph on the dashboard, taken years ago
Turned around backwards so the windshield shows
Every streetlight reveals a picture in reverse
Still it's so much clearer
I forgot my shirt at the water's edge
The moon is low tonight
Nightswimming deserves a quiet night
I'm not sure all these people understand
It's not like years ago
The fear of getting caught
The recklessness in water
They cannot see me naked
These things they go away
Replaced by every day
Nightswimming - remembering that night
September's coming soon
I'm pining for the moon
And what if there were two
Side by side in orbit
Around the fairest sun
A bright tide forever drawn
Could not describe nightswimmin
You I thought I knew you.
You I cannot judge
You I thought you knew me
This one laughing quietly underneath my breath
Nightswimming
The photograph reflects
Every streetlight a reminder
Nightswimming deserves a quiet night, deserves a quiet night.