Whats The Frequency Kennethv3

R.E.M. – What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?

INTRO

VERSE 1

“What’s the frequency, Kenneth?” Is your Benzedrine, uh-huh.

I was brain-dead, locked out, numb, not up to speed.

I thought I pegged you an idiot’s dream.

Tunnel vision from the insider’s screen.

I never understood the frequency, uh-huh.

You wore our expectations like an armoured suit, uh-huh.

VERSE 2

I’d studied you’re cartoons, radio, music, TV, movies, magazines.

Richard said, “withdraw in disgust is not the same as apathy.”

A smile like the cartoon, tooth for a tooth.

You said that irony was the shackles of youth.

You wore a shirt of violent green, uh-huh.

I never understood the frequency, uh-huh.

INSTRUMENTAL [BUCK'S NEW VERSION, NOT FROM THE ORIGINAL RECORD]

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VERSE 3

“What’s the frequency, Kenneth?” Is your Benzedrine, uh-huh.

Butterfly decal, rear-view mirror, dogging the scene.

You smile like the cartoon, tooth for a tooth.

You said that irony was the shackles of youth.

You wore a shirt of violent green, uh-huh.

I never understood the frequency, uh-huh.

You wore our expectations like an armoured suit, uh-huh.

VERSE 4

I couldn’t understand.

You said that irony was the shackled of youth, uh-huh.

I couldn’t understand.

You wore a shirt of violent green, uh-huh.

I couldn’t understand.

I never understood, don’t fuck with me, uh-huh.