Welcome to the Occupation

by R.E.M.

From the album: And I Feel Fine... The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982-1987

Track 18 of 21 on And I Feel Fine... The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982-1987 (2006).

Duration: 2:47

And I Feel Fine... The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982-1987 cover art

Lyrics for Welcome to the Occupation

Hang your collar up inside Hang your dollar on me Listen to the water still Listen to the causeway You are mad and educated Primitive and wild Welcome to the occupation Here we stand and here we fight All your fallen heroes Held and dyed and skinned alive Listen to the Congress fire Offering the educated Primitive and loyal Welcome to the occupation Hang your collar up inside Hang your freedom higher Listen to the buyer still Listen to the Congress Where we propagate confusion Primitive and wild Fire on the hemisphere below Sugar cane and coffee cup Copper, steel and cattle An annotated history The forest for the fire Where we open up the floodgates Freedom reigns supreme Fire on the hemisphere below Listen to me Listen to me Listen to me Listen to me Listen to me Listen to me Listen to me

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  3. Pretty Persuasion
  4. Talk About the Passion
  5. (Don鈥檛 Go Back to) Rockville
  6. Sitting Still
  7. Gardening at Night
  8. 7 Chinese Bros.
  9. So. Central Rain (I鈥檓 Sorry)
  10. Driver 8
  11. Can鈥檛 Get There From Here
  12. Finest Worksong
  13. Feeling Gravity鈥檚 Pull
  14. I Believe
  15. Life and How to Live It
  16. Cuyahoga
  17. The One I Love
  18. Welcome to the Occupation
  19. Fall on Me
  20. Perfect Circle
  21. It鈥檚 the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine)