Saturn Return - R.E.M.

Easy to poke yourself square in the eye

Harder to like yourself, harder to try

These are Elvis poses

Postcards and neoprene

Roses a dollar a stem

Everyone sleeping or pulling the long haul and

Keys in the cooler it’s three AM

And saturn is beckoning no-one

Is off on its own

Is offering up

Late shift convenience store, burn out the lights

Telescope roof towards the north-western sky

You pulled the ladder and no-ones the wiser

You find your sights and discover

Saturn is orbiting nothing

Is off on its own

Is breaking from home

Harder to like yourself, harder to try

Easy to take off

You found the ladder in the pattern of your wrist

You’ve seen and you’ve marked horizions

Mother was difficult, she made you cry

Cover the mirror, look to the sky

You climb into your rocketship trying

Lift up and hold out your hands

Saturn is orbiting nothing

Is off on its own

Is breaking from home

Saturn is orbiting nothing

Is off on its own

Is breaking from home

Saturn return when you chase down its moons

Throw them into a new gravity

Harder to look yourself square in the eye

Easy to poke yourself, easy as pie

Easy to take off, harder to fly

Harder to wake Galileo