High Speed Train

By R.E.M.

On Around the Sun

Released on October 4, 2004

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[Verse 1]

When I look into your eyes

Your drop-like-an-anchor eyes

I scudded and clipped the sky

Just shy of making it

And you almost got away

I told you I was afraid

Did I really want to try?

You're holding me to my claim


[Chorus]

I jump on a high speed train

I'll never look back again

I flail like the antelope

Who jumped from the building


[Verse 2]

And you caught me on the sly

You've taken me by surprise

You've mirrored my best disguise and

Turned it back on me


[Chorus]

I jump on a high speed train

I'll never look back again

I flail like the antelope

Who jumped from the building


[Chorus]

I jump on a high speed train

I'll never look back again

To Berlin, Kyoto or Marseilles

I'd go anywhere for you


[Verse 3]

I'll bring you a big bouquet

I picked it myself today

It compliments your eyes

There's love at the end of the line


[Chorus]

I jump on a high speed train

I'll never look back again

I flail like the antelope

Who jumped from the building


[Chorus]

I jump on a high speed train

I'll never look back again

To Berlin, Kyoto or Marseilles

I'd go anywhere for you


[Bridge]

And that's what I always knew

I'd like to have hung the moon

I'd wrestle you for a spoon

Inside your sleeping bag

Just us


[Outro]

No war, no hate, no past

It's real

I'm here, I'm yours, I'm fast

I'm long in the eye

I'm cry when I try

I just want to fly

Just you and I, together