Saturn Return

By R.E.M.

On Reveal

Released on May 14, 2001

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[Verse 1]

Easy to poke yourself square in the eye

Harder to like yourself, harder to try

These Elvis poses

Postcards and neoprene

Roses a dollar a stem

Everyone's sleeping or pulling a long haul

The keys in the cooler, it's three AM


[Chorus]

And Saturn is beckoning no-one

Is off on its own

Is offering up


[Verse 2]

Late shift convenience store, cut out the lights

Telescope, roof - towards the north-western sky

You pull the ladder up, no-one's the wiser

You find your sights and discover


[Chorus]

Saturn is orbiting nothing

Is off on its own

Is breaking from home


[Interlude 1]

Harder to look yourself square in the eye

Easy to take off


[Verse 3]

You found the ladder in the pattern of your wrist

You've seen and you've marked horizons

Mother was difficult, she made you cry

Cover the mirror, look to the sky

You climb into your rocketship Triumph

Lift up and hold out your hands


[Chorus]

Saturn is orbiting nothing

Is off on its own

Is breaking from home

Saturn is orbiting nothing

Is off on its own

Is breaking from home


[Interlude 2]

Saturn return when you chase down its moons

Throw them into a new gravity


[Verse 4]

Harder to look yourself square in the eye

Easy to poke yourself, easy as pie

Easy to take off, harder to fly

Harder to wake Galileo