Nightswimming

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Nightswimming by R.E.M.

About Nightswimming

Track 11 of 12 on the album Automatic For The People. In the liner notes of 'In Time: The Best of R.E.M.' (2003) guitarist Peter Buck says that this is the only R.E.M. song where the lyrics came before the music. Lead singer Michael Stipe told Buck & bassist/ keyboardist Mike Mills he had written a full set of lyrics & maybe they could find some suitable music. When the band returned to the studio, Mills played a piece on the piano which fit Stipe's lyrics perfectly. .

Nightswimming Lyrics

[00:16.12] Nightswimming deserves a quiet night
[00:23.12]
[00:27.89] The photograph on the dashboard, taken years ago
[00:36.37] Turned around backwards so the windshield shows
[00:40.35] Every street light reveals a picture in reverse
[00:48.74] Still it's so much clearer
[00:53.41] I forgot my shirt at the water's edge
[00:59.05] The moon is low tonight
[01:04.05]
[01:15.70] Nightswimming deserves a quiet night
[01:22.78] I'm not sure all these people understand
[01:27.86] It's not like years ago
[01:32.48] The fear of getting caught
[01:37.14] The recklessness in water
[01:40.48] They cannot see me naked
[01:45.02] These things they go away
[01:49.55] Replaced by every day
[01:53.06] Nightswimming, remembering that night
[02:00.11] September's coming soon
[02:03.65] I'm pining for the moon
[02:07.45] And what if there were two
[02:11.43] Side by side in orbit around the fairest sun?
[02:18.48] That bright tight forever drum
[02:22.74] Could not describe nightswimming
[02:29.50] You, I thought I knew you
[02:33.52] You, I can not judge
[02:37.54] You, I thought you knew me
[02:40.98] This one laughing quietly
[02:45.65] Underneath my breath
[02:49.93] Nightswimming
[02:53.29]
[03:15.93] The photograph reflects
[03:19.08] Every street light a reminder
[03:23.85] Nightswimming
[03:26.35] Deserves a quiet night
[03:31.35]
[03:34.67] Deserves a quiet night
[03:38.06]

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