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Living Well Is The Best Revenge

Living Well Is The Best Revenge lyrics by R.E.M.. It's only when your poison spins Into the life you'd hoped to live That suddenly you wake up in a shaking...

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Living Well Is The Best Revenge

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It's only when your poison spins

Into the life you'd hoped to live

That suddenly you wake up in a shaking panic

Wow!

You set me up like a lamb to slaughter

Garbo as a farmer's daughter

Unbelievable: the gospel according to who?

I lay right down!

All your sad and lost apostles

Hum my name and flare their nostrils

Choking on the bones you toss to them

Well I'm not one to sit and spin

'Cause living well's the best revenge

Baby, I am calling you on that

Don't turn your talking points on me

History will set me free

The future's ours and you don't even read the footnote

Now!

So who's chasing you? Where did you go?

You disappeared mid-sentence in a judgement crisis

I see my anecdote for it, you weakened shell

All your sad and lost apostles

Hum my name and flare their nostrils

Choking on the bones you toss to them

Well I'm not one to sit and spin

'Cause living well's the best revenge

Baby, I am calling you on that

You savour your dying breath

Well, I forgive but I don't forget

You work it out

Let's hear that argument again

Camera three: go now!

All your sad and lost apostles

Hum my name and flare their nostrils

Choking on the bones you toss to them

Well I'm not one to sit and spin

'Cause living well's the best revenge

Baby, I am calling you on that

Baby, I am calling you on that

Baby, I am calling you on that

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