It's The End Of The World

"It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" is a song by the rock band R.E.M., found on their 1987 album Document and the 1988 compilation Eponymous. It was also released as a single in 1988, reaching #69 US Billboard Hot 100 and later reaching #39 in the UK singles chart on its re-release in 1991. The song originated from a previous, unreleased, R.E.M. song called "PSA", which is short for "Public Service Announcement". The two songs are very similar in melody and tempo. "PSA" was itself later released as a single in 2003, under the title "Bad Day". In an interview with Guitar World magazine in the early 1990s, R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck indicated that one of the primary inspirations of "End of the World" was Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues". The music video was directed by James Herbert, who worked with the band on several other videos in the late 1980s. It depicts a young skateboarder (Noah Ray) rifling through an abandoned, collapsing farmhouse and displaying the relics that he finds to the camera. One of REM's best songs. Featured on the Disney film Chicken Little, and in the Sony motion picture Independence Day.

[Intro] I'm gonna love you (love you) I'm gonna love you (love you) I'm gonna love you (love you) Like it's the end of the world [Verse 1] I wanna remember the shape of your lips Cause I wouldn't miss breathing as much as your kiss If the streets were on fire, well, we'd never know We'd be lost in each other instead of the smoke [Pre-Chorus] Baby, let's go out with a bang We could be the last love song ever sang [Chorus] I'm gonna love you (love you) Love you like it's the end of the world I'm gonna hold you (hold you) Hold you as long as I can in this world So let's cheers to the moments of beauty we've found As the city burns to the ground I'm gonna love you (love you) I'm gonna love you (love you) [Verse 2] We'll live forever; they'll study our bones Write stories about us and carve us in stone So they can remember what true love was like But this isn't about them; it's just us tonight [Pre-Chorus] Baby, let's go out with a bang We could be the last love song ever sang [Chorus] I'm gonna love you (love you) Love you like it's the end of the world I'm gonna hold you (hold you) Hold you as long as I can in this world So let's cheers to the moments of beauty we've found As the city burns to the ground I'm gonna love you (love you) I'm gonna love you (love you) [Bridge] Be here now as the skies crash down Watch the world fade away (watch it fade away) Cause what we've found never comes around Let it burn up in flames (let it all go up in flames) [Chorus] I'm gonna love you (love you) (Be here now) Love you like it's the end of the world (As the sky's falling down) I'm gonna hold you (hold you) (Let it burn) Hold you as long as I can in this world (up in flames) I'm gonna love you (love you) (Be here now) Love you like it's the end of the world (As the sky's falling down) I'm gonna hold you (hold you) (Let this all) Hold you as long as I can in this world (fade away) (Love love love love you)