Life And How To Live It
Lyrics
Burn bright through the night, two pockets lead the way
Two doors to go between the wall was raised today
Two doors remain before your others and your own
Keep these books well stocked away and take your happy home
My carpenter’s out and running about, talking to the street
My pockets are out and running about
Barking in the street to tell what I have hidden there
Burn bright through the night, two pockets lead the way
Two doors to go between the wall was raised today
Raise the walls and shout its flaws, a carpenter should rest
So that when you tire of one side the other serves you best
My carpenter’s out and running about, talking to the street
My pockets are out and running about
Barking in the street to tell what I have hidden there
The hills ringing hear the words in time
Listen to the holler, listen to my walls within my tongue
Can’t you see you made my ears go tin?
the air quicken tension building inference suddenly
Life and how to live it
Raise the walls and shout its flaws, a carpenter should rest
So that when you tire of one side the other serves you best
Read about the wisdom lost, a knock, a knock, a knock
A secret knock one hammer’s locked the other wisdom lost
My carpenter’s out and running about, talking to the street
My pockets are out and running about
Barking in the street to tell what I have hidden there
My carpenter’s out and running about, barking in the, listen to the holler
My pockets are out and running about
Barking in the street to tell what I have hidden there
Listen, listen to the holler,
If I write a book it will be called “Life and How to Live It”
Copyright © R.E.M./Athens Ltd.
1 Official Release
Life And How To Live It (Promotional 12” Single)USA – L33-17060
‘Life And How To Live It’ is also available on
Fables Of The Reconstruction (CD Album)Netherlands – MAIN
released: unknown
Re-Issue
Can’t Get There From Here (Bootleg LP)KAXY 002
released: unknown
Recorded: Live at Hammersmith Palais Ballroom, London 10/28/85.
- 1. Feeling Gravitys Pull
- 2. Harborcoat
- 3. Green Grow the Rushes
- 4. Maps And Legends
- 5. Pilgrimage
- 6. Driver 8
- 7. Sitting Still
- 8. Good Advices
- 9. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
- 10. Have You Ever Seen The Rain?
- 11. Can’t Get There From Here
- 12. Seven Chinese Bros.
- 13. Auctioneer (Another Engine)
- 14. Old Man Kensey
- 15. Pretty Persuasion
- 16. Life And How To Live It
- 17. Second Guessing
- 18. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 19. Toys In The Attic
- 20. Radar Love
- 21. Burning Hell
- 22. Talk About The Passion
- 23. Little America
Bucketful of Worksongs (Bootleg CD Album)92029/30
released: unknown
Recorded: Tracks 1-22 Utrecht Holland 9/14/87, Tracks 23-28 Werchter, July 1985
- 1. Finest Worksong
- 2. These Days
- 3. Lightnin’ Hopkins
- 4. Welcome To The Occupation
- 5. Driver 8
- 6. Feeling Gravitys Pull
- 7. I Believe
- 8. The One I Love
- 9. Exhuming McCarthy
- 10. Wolves, Lower
- 11. Fall On Me
- 12. Superman
- 13. Just A Touch
- 14. Oddfellows Local 151
- 15. Strange
- 16. Disturbance At The Heron House
- 17. Funtime
- 18. Time After Time (Annelise)
- 19. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
- 20. Harpers
- 21. Moral Kiosk
- 22. Life And How To Live It
- 23. Feeling Gravitys Pull
- 24. Driver 8
- 25. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
- 26. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
- 27. Have You Ever Seen The Rain?
- 28. Can’t Get There From Here
Losing My Religion Vol.2 (Bootleg CD Album)BAN-042-B
released: unknown
Recorded: 9/14/87, Utrecht, Holland (Second Half Of Show)


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