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R.E.M.’s Top Forty Playlist (according to Berry, Buck, Mills and Stipe)
01. World Leader Pretend
02. Country Feedback
03. Strange Currencies
04. The Lifting
05. Electron Blue
06. Supernatural Superserious
07. Oh My Heart
08. We All Go Back to Where We Belong
09. The Flowers of Guatemala
10. Half a World Away
11. Feeling Gravity’s Pull
12. So. Central Rain
13. Walk Unafraid
14. You’re in the Air
15. Discoverer
16. All the Way to Reno (You’re Gonna Be a Star)
17. Try Not to Breathe
18. Undertow
19. Electrolite
20. Finest Worksong
21. Wolves, Lower
22. Pilgrimage
23. I Believe
24. It’s the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine)
25. You Are the Everything
26. Orange Crush
27. What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?
28. How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us
29. Living Well Is the Best Revenge
30. Every Day Is Yours to Win
31. Beachball
32. Daysleeper
33. Leaving New York
34. These Days
35. We Walk
36. I Remember California
37. I Don’t Sleep, I Dream
38. Rotary Ten
39. Voice of Harold
40. Find the River
I know what I wanted.
I know what I wanted.
I know how I wanted this to be.
You go down to the water.
Drink down of the water.
Walk up off the water, leave it be.

This is not my dream sister.
It is cold in heaven and I'm not sprouting wings.
I'm drowning... me.
I'm drowning... me, yeah.

Brother can you see those birds?
They don't look to heaven.
They don't need religion they can see.
They go down to the water,
Drink down on the water,
Fly up off the water, leave it be.

This is not my time sister,
It is cold in heaven
And no one's coming after me.
I'm drowning (breathing ourselves) me (breathing ourselves).
I'm drowning (breathing ourselves) me (breathing ourselves) yeah.

You know I am tired.
Cold and bony tired.
Nothing's gonna save me, I can see.
I can't say I'm fearful, I can't say I'm not afraid.
But I am not resisting, I can see.
I don't need a heaven, I don't need religion.
I am in the place where I should be.

I am breathing water, I am breathing water.
You know a body's got to breathe.
I'm drowning (breathing ourselves) me (breathing ourselves).
I'm drowning (breathing ourselves) me (breathing ourselves).
I'm drowning (breathing ourselves) me (breathing ourselves).