How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us Lyrics by REM

(from the album New Adventures In Hi-Fi)

How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us Lyrics

blood from a stone, water from wine.
Born under an ill-placed sign.
a stroke of bad luck, wrong place, wrong time.
this flyer is out of line.

The story is a sad one, told many times.
the story of my life in trying times.
just add water, stir in lime.
how the west was won and where it got us.
ahhhh.

the canary got trapped in the uranium mine.
I struck bad luck, now the bird has died.
a marker to mark where my tears run dry
at the crossing of blessed and alkaline.

The story is a sad one, told many times.
the story of my life in trying times.
just add water, stir in lime.
how the west was won and where it got us.
ahhhh.

I didn't wear glasses cause I thought it might rain.
now I can't see anything.
I made a mistake, chalked it up to design.
I cracked through time/space, godless and dry.
I point my nose to the northern star,
and watch the decline from a hazy distance.

The story is a sad one, told many times.
the story of my life in trying times.
just add water, stir in lime.
how the west was won and where it got us.
ahhhh

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Other Lyrics from New Adventures In Hi-Fi

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2. Binky The Doormat Lyrics
3. Bittersweet Me Lyrics
4. Departure Lyrics
5. Leave Lyrics
6. Low Desert Lyrics
7. New Test Leper Lyrics
8. So Fast, So Numb Lyrics
9. The Wake-up Bomb Lyrics
10. Undertow Lyrics

Other REM Albums

• Murmur Lyrics
• Reckoning Lyrics
• Fables Of The Reconstruction Lyrics
• Life's Rich Pageant Lyrics
• Dead Letter Office Lyrics
• Document Lyrics
• Green Lyrics
• Eponymous Lyrics
• Out Of Time Lyrics
• Automatic For The People Lyrics
• Monster Lyrics
• In The Attic Lyrics
• Up Lyrics
• Reveal Lyrics
• In Time: The Best of REM 1988-2003 Lyrics
• Around The Sun Lyrics

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