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Document (R.E.M. No. 5) • 1987
Welcome To The Occupation
R.E.M.
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Lyrics of Welcome To The Occupation by R.E.M.
verse
Hang your collar up inside
Hang your dollar on me
Listen to the water still
Listen to the causeway
You are mad and educated
Primitive and wild
Welcome to the occupation
verse
Here we stand and here we fight
All your fallen heroes
Held and dyed and skinned alive
Listen to the Congress fire
Offering the educated
Primitive and loyal
Welcome to the occupation
verse
Hang your collar up inside
Hang your freedom higher
Listen to the buyer still
Listen to the Congress
Where we propagate confusion
Primitive and wild
Fire on the hemisphere below
verse
Sugar cane and coffee cup
Copper, steel and cattle
An annotated history
The forest for the fire
Where we open up the floodgates
Freedom reigns supreme
Fire on the hemisphere below
outro
Listen to me
Listen to me
Listen to me
Listen to me
Listen to me
Listen to me
Listen to me
Writer(s): Peter Lawrence Buck, Michael E. Mills, John Michael Stipe, William Thomas Berry
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Document (R.E.M. No. 5)
Album • 1987 • 11 tracks
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