R.E.M.

Staring Down the Barrel of the Middle Distance

Now the hope for the future took a pounding in the

parking lot

And the answer for today is all I got

When your name is called the lights went down

The time is the essence excuse me and I'm

Blinking at the vanishing point of what I thought

Staring down the barrel of the middle distance

God knows I tried

I close my eyes

I greet despair to a standard prayer

If you call for the future I don't care

And I don't mean *** to face me here aha

There's a compass raised with familiar tone

With a voice that needles me to the bone

Staring down the barrel of the middle distance

God knows I tried

I close my eyes

Whose position shifts cause its been effect

If you can't hit play cause the button sticks

Ignorance is bliss, I can't say

There's a compass raised with familiar tone

With a voice that needles you to the bone

You're left with chaos, static and delay

Staring down the barrel of the middle distance

God knows I tried

I close my eyes

Staring down the barrel of the middle distance

God Knows I tried

I close my eyes