Living Well is the Best Revenge (R.E.M.)

from Unbroken by Kyle Richards & the TM Collective

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Published October 15, 2016
Theme: REWIND 2016

This one was started back in March 2016 for SENTENCED theme, and now I'm finishing it for REWIND 2016. On guitars is John Pecak, on backing vocals is Carey Anne and on drums is Dave Thake. I played bass and sang lead vocals as well as mix and video. The song is Living Well Is The Best Revenge from R.E.M.'s second to last album, Accelerate.

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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 wells 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 judgment 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 wells the best revenge
Baby, I am calling you on that

You savor 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 wells the best revenge
Baby, I am calling you on that

Baby, I am calling you on that
Baby, I am calling you on

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from Unbroken, released January 25, 2017
Kyle Richards - Vocals, Bass
John Pecak - Guitars
Carey Anne - Backing Vocals
Dave Thake - Drums

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