[00:09.98] Mercury is rising still
[00:15.38] Turn the fan on high
[00:20.80] I won't step on my own shadow
[00:26.23] No one wants to cry.
[00:32.57] Someone put a pox on me
[00:37.17] I'll spit in their eye.
[00:42.56] Summer turns to high.
[00:50.71] With my bedsheet cape and sandals
[01:01.54] Circle citronella candles.
[01:07.92] Summer's here, the light is raising
[01:13.37] Hopes and dragonflies.
[01:19.61] If those hopes are overshadowed
[01:25.15] Cotton candy, caramel apple.
[01:30.58] Summer turns to high
[01:36.83] Summer turns to high
[01:43.29] Summer turns to high
[01:47.75] Summer high
[01:58.66] After wine and nectarines
[02:05.81] The fireflies and time
[02:12.18] Move like syrup through the evening
[02:17.67] With a sweet resign.
[02:24.09] I won't pine for what could have been -
[02:29.41] I'm preoccupied!
[02:34.80] Summer turns to high
[02:41.22] Summer turns to high
[02:46.69] Summer turns to high
[02:51.16] Summer high.
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R.E.M. was an American rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills, and lead vocalist Michael Stipe, who were students at the University of Georgia. R.E.M. was noted for Buck's arpeggiated "jangle" guitar playing; Stipe's distinctive vocal style, unique stage presence, and cryptic lyrics; Mills's countermelodic bass lines and backing vocals; and Berry's tight, economical drumming. In the early 1990s, other alternative rock acts suc...
