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Song title:       It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Original Album:   Document

Words and Music by Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe
Copyright © 1987 I.R.S. Records
Published by MCA Music Publishing

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
I think you could play open chords with an acoustic guitar, otherwise
you might want to play barrés or even 5ths. This is a great one to busk,
if there's a couple of you and you can harmonise... Timing is 4/4.

VERSE:
Chords:
G  320033 or 355433 (G5  355xxx)
C  x32010 or x35553 (C5  x355xx)
Bb xx0331 or 688766 (Bb5 688xxx)
Am x02210 or 577555

G                                 C    
  That's great; it starts with an earthquake,
                     G                          C    
Birds and snakes, an aeroplane - Lenny Bruce is not afraid.
G
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn.
C    
World serves its own needs; dummy serve your own needs.
G
Feed it off an ox, speed, grunt, no strength.
    C    
The ladder structure clatter with fear of height, down height.

Bb
Wire in a fire, representing seven games
      Am
and a government for hire and a combat site.


VERSE:
Chords:
G  320033 or 355433    (G5  355xxx)
C  x32010 or x35553    (C5  x355xx)
Bb xx0331 or 688766    (Bb5 688xxx)
Am x02210 or 577555

G                                                            C    
Left of West and coming in a hurry with the Furies breathing down your neck.
G
Team by team reporters baffled, trumped, tethered cropped.
              C    
Look at that "low playing"! Fine, then.
G                                             C    
Uh-oh, overflow, population, common food, but it'll do.
Save yourself, serve yourself
                 G
World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed.
C    
Dummy with the rapture and the revered and the Right - right!

    Bb                                               Am
You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright light, feeling pretty psyched.


CHORUS:
Chords:
G   320033 or 355433    (G5  355xxx)
D   xx0230 or x57775    (D5  x577xx)
Am  x02210 or 577555
C   x32010 or x35553    (C5  x355xx)

         G          D           Am
It's the end of the world as we know it
         G          D           Am
It's the end of the world as we know it
         G          D           Am                 C
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine


VERSE:
G
Six o'clock - TV hour. Don't get caught in foreign towers.
C    
Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself churn.
G
Locking in, uniforming, book-burning, blood-letting.
C    
Every motive escalate; automotive incinerate.
G
Light a candle, light a votive. Step down, step down.
C    
Watch a heel crush, crush.
                   G
Uh-oh, this means "No fear, cavalier. Renegade and steer clear!"
  C
A tournament, a tournament, a tournament of lies.

Bb                                            Am
Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I decline.


CHORUS:
         G          D           Am
It's the end of the world as we know it
         G          D           Am
It's the end of the world as we know it
         G          D           Am                 C     G
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine,

C        G    C  G  F
  I feel fine


CHORUS2:
         G          D           Am
It's the end of the world as we know it
   (It's time I     had    some time alone)

         G          D           Am
It's the end of the world as we know it
   (It's time I     had some    time alone)

         G          D           Am                 C
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine
   (It's time I     had some    time alone)


VERSE:
Chords:
G  320033 or 355433    (G5  355xxx)
C  x32010 or x35553    (C5  x355xx)
Bb xx0331 or 688766    (Bb5 688xxx)
Am x02210 or 577555

    G    
The other night I dreamt of knives, continental-drift divide,
c
mountains drift in a line.
                   G
Leonard Bernstein, Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs.
C    
Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom!
    Bb                                    Am
You symbiotic, patriotic, slam-book neck, right?  Right!


[repeat CHORUS2]


[play: | G |


[repeat CHORUS]

[repeat CHORUS2]  [x2]


[end on G]