R.E.M. – Nightswimming Lyrics

R.E.M. · The Greatest Hits Collection 1998

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Nightswimming deserves a quiet night

The photograph on the dashboard taken years ago
Turned around backwards so the windshield shows
Every street light reveals a picture in reverse
Still its 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?
That bright tight forever drum
Could not describe nightswimming

You, I thought I knew you
You, I can not judge
You, I thought you knew me
This one laughing quietly
Underneath my breath
Nightswimming

The photograph reflects
Every street light a reminder
Nightswimming
Deserves a quiet night
Deserves a quiet night

Comments (1)

James Reed 2016-11-14 01:20:00

I found just the disc which does not have the band name/title on it. Must admit I was not familiar with R.E.M except the cuts the local classic rock station plays, so for the longest time I thought it the vocals sounded like Harry Chapin. I just recently came across the album package and all and was I surprised to find out it was R.E.M. I should have known who it was by the song MAN ON THE MOON. (A GREAT SONG ABOUT MY LEAST FAVORITE COMEDIAN .) A great record on love/life and death. It is a regular on my shops five disc cd player. I will be printing out the lyrics as I can not understand all of the lyrics as they are being sung,