It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

The 2020 R.E.M. Song Lyric Rewrite

Photo by Danny Howe on Unsplash.

In a burst of isolation-inspiration, I took the liberty of re-writing the lyrics to R.E.M.’s alt-rock classic, It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) to fit these strange times…

…hope you dig this reworked blast-from-the-past!

It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)¹

That’s great, it started in a marketplace
with bats and snakes, then aeroplanes —
Paul Duprex is not afraid.

Climate and its science are warming to the world’s burn,
self-serve your own needs,
write-off all the misdeeds.

Tighten up, stay away, too close, don’t touch
Respiratory clatter with fear of viral splatter,
Set fire to the pyre, smoke rising from the mire
now the doctors aren’t for hire, it’s a combat site.