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Lyrics

All the young kids learn to dance in the combat zone
Never dared to take a chance
Goin’ home alone

But it gets so very cold
When it’s late at night

Leave the foxholes on their own
Do you sleep well at night?

Bodycount…feeling hot
Bodycount…keeping warm

Friends are playing with danger
They don’t know where it’s found
With their casual letters
It’s just another chain

You’ve lost the innocence
That you’ve never found
Standing in the DMZ
Don’t get turned around

Body count…feeling hot
Body count…Vietnam

It’s not the game..well, it’s a scar
And they won’t let you wear your khakis
And your Izods anymore

You can go get shot to hell
They don’t want you anymore because..

All the young kids learn to dance
In the combat zone
Never dare to take a chance
You’re going home alone
Military metaphors
Are metaphors no more

Keeping up with protocol
You’re dancin’ off to war

Body count feeling hot
Body count Vietnam

Do you sleep well at night?

Body Count…Vietnam

They can say what they want
But you have your doubts

It’s not what you’ve lost
It’s what your without

When I ran so far
And they just turned away

I doesn’t bother me by the light of day
But at night…I hear your call
Late at night…I hear your call

I saw the mirror that you broke today
I saw the ceiling falling down your way

When they looked at you, you could turn away

You didn’t bother then by the light of day…you’ll stay

But at night…I hear your call
Late at night…I hear your call

You said that you could turn away
I knew that you going to stay

The walls are falling all around
They pinned you down onto the ground
But at night…I hear your call
Vietnam…I hear you call

Copyright © R.E.M./Athens Ltd.

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BODYCOUNT AT TYRONE’S (Bootleg LP)
BRIG 007
released: unknown
Recorded: Tyrone\s Athens, 10/4/80

• 1. Just A Touch
• 2. A Girl Like You
• 3. Dangerous Times
• 4. There She Goes Again
• 5. All The Right Friends
• 6. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
• 7. Body Count
• 8. Hippy Hippy Shake
• 9. Action
• 10. Narrator
• 11. Pretty Girl (Hey, Hey Nadine)
• 12. Gardening At Night
• 13. Scheherazade
• 14. Lisa Says
• 15. Mystery To Me
• 16. (I’m Not Your) Stepping Stone
• 17. Permanent Vacation

Georgia Peaches Ripe! (Bootleg LP)
REM-7
released: unknown

• 1. Rave On
• 2. Burning Down
• 3. A Girl Like You
• 4. Get On their Way (What If We Give It Away?)
• 5. There She Goes Again
• 6. Pretty Persuasion
• 7. Body Count
• 8. A Different Girl
• 9. Action
• 10. Narrator
• 11. Hey! Hey! Nadine
• 12. Baby I
• 13. Permanent Vacation
• 14. Radio Free Europe
• 15. Sitting Still
• 16. Dangerous Times
• 17. All The Right Friends
• 18. Shaking Through
• 19. Hey Little Girl
• 20. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
• 21. Windout
• 22. Gardening At Night
• 23. Scheherazade
• 24. Lisa Says
• 25. Mystery To Me
• 25. White Tornado

Ripe! Georgia Peaches (Bootleg LP)
REM-7
released: unknown
Recorded: Live at Tyrone\s, April 10, 1981

• 1. Rave On
• 2. Burning Down
• 3. A Girl Like You
• 4. Get On their Way (What If We Give It Away?)
• 5. There She Goes Again
• 6. Pretty Persuasion
• 7. Body Count
• 8. A Different Girl
• 9. Action
• 10. Narrator
• 11. Hey! Hey! Nadine
• 12. Baby I
• 13. Permanent Vacation
• 14. Radio Free Europe
• 15. Sitting Still
• 16. Dangerous Times
• 17. All The Right Friends
• 18. Shaking Through
• 19. Hey Little Girl
• 20. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
• 21. Windout
• 22. Gardening At Night
• 23. Scheherazade
• 24. Lisa Says
• 25. Mystery To Me
• 25. White Tornado

Ripe! The Georgia Peaches (Bootleg LP)
CYCLER-T-80
released: unknown
Recorded: Live at Tyrone\s, April 10, 1981

• 1. Rave On
• 2. Burning Down
• 3. A Girl Like You
• 4. Get On their Way (What If We Give It Away?)
• 5. There She Goes Again
• 6. Pretty Persuasion
• 7. Body Count
• 8. A Different Girl
• 9. Action
• 10. Narrator
• 11. Hey! Hey! Nadine
• 12. Baby I
• 13. Permanent Vacation
• 14. Radio Free Europe
• 15. Sitting Still
• 16. Dangerous Times
• 17. All The Right Friends
• 18. Shaking Through
• 19. Hey Little Girl
• 20. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
• 21. Windout
• 22. Gardening At Night
• 23. Scheherazade
• 24. Lisa Says
• 25. Mystery To Me
• 25. White Tornado

20th Century Boys – Vol.2 (Bootleg CD Album)

released: unknown
Recorded: tracks 1-7 were recorded live at Stichcraft in Athens on 9/30/83. Tracks 8-26 were recorded live at Tyrone\s Club, Athens, GA, October 4, 1980.

• 1. Rave On
• 2. 20th Century Boy
• 3. Seven Chinese Bros.
• 4. Crazy
• 5. That Beat
• 6. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
• 7. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
• 8. Just A Touch
• 9. A Girl Like You
• 10. Dangerous Times
• 11. There She Goes Again
• 12. All The Right Friends
• 13. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
• 14. Body Count
• 15. Hippy Hippy Shake
• 16. Action
• 17. Narrator
• 18. Pretty Girl (Hey, Hey Nadine)
• 19. Gardening At Night
• 20. Scheherazade
• 21. Lisa Says
• 22. Mystery To Me
• 23. (I’m Not Your) Stepping Stone
• 24. Permanent Vacation

File Under Kudzu (Bootleg CD Album)
BPP-001
released: unknown
Recorded: January 1982, Fridays, Greensboro, NC + Bonus Tracks.

• 1. Gardening At Night
• 2. 9-9
• 3. Windout
• 4. New Song
• 5. There She Goes Again
• 6. Sitting Still
• 7. That Beat
• 8. Pretty Persuasion
• 9. Mystery To Me
• 10. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
• 11. Ages Of You
• 12. Catapult
• 13. Shaking Through
• 14. Laughing
• 15. Romance
• 16. Ghost Riders In The Sky
• 17. Permanent Vacation
• 18. 1,000,000
• 19. Wolves, Lower
• 20. Radio Free Europe
• 21. All The Right Friends
  Bonus Track
• 22. Wait
  Bonus Track
• 23. Body Count
  Bonus Track