Významná americká rocková skupina založená v r. 1980 v Athens (stát Georgia). (Buck je ročník 1956, Stipe 1960, Berry a Mills 1958.) Hudební kořeny mají jak v americké hudební tradici tak i v pop music 60. let (m.j. Byrds). Typičtí představitelé...

Píseň: Accelerate

Interpret:
R.E.M.
Album:
Accelerate
Sinking fast, the weight chained to my feet 
No time to argue with belief 
I'm not alone, a thousand others dropping 
Faster than me 
What put me here? 
Nothing to hold on to 
Nowhere to brake 


Where is the ripcord, the trapdoor, the key? 
Where is the cartoon escape-hatch for me? 
No time to question the choices I make 
I've got to follow another direction (although fall down is much cooler) 


The last thing I remember was climbing up the stairs 
I threw the window open in challenge and despair 
I don't know what I needed 
I needed time 
I needed to escape 
I saw the future turn 
Upside-down and hesitate. 


Where is the ripcord, the trapdoor, the key? 
Where is the cartoon escape-hatch for me? 
No time to question the choices I make 
I've got to follow another direction 
Accelerate. 


The vista I see now is changing 
Uncertainty is suffocating 
Our hope has never felt so great and 
Lit up down 
A pounding pulse 
To make it go 
Make it slow down, 
Go. 


Where is the ripcord, the trapdoor, the key? 
Where is the cartoon escape-hatch for me? 
No time to question the choices I make 
I've got to follow another direction. 


The city's burning, it's like it's ready to explode 
Accelerate to make it slow 
Make it go 
Accelerate to make it slow 
Make it go 
I'm incomplete 
I'm incomplete 
I'm incomplete.