What's The Frequency, Kenneth?

R.E.M.

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• ADHmiGADAGADAHmiGAADHmiEGGAA
  S1:
  "What's the frequency, Kenneth" is your Benzedrine, uh-huh  

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

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  I thought I'd pegged you an idiot's dream 

  Tunnel vision from the outsider's screen
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  R1:
  I never understood the frequency, uh-huh 

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  You wore our expectations like an armored suit, uh-huh 

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• ADHmiGADAGADAHmiGAADHmiEGGAA
  S2:
  I'd studied your cartoons, radio, music, TV, movies, magazines 

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  Richard said, "Withdrawal in disgust is not the same as apathy" 

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  A smile like the cartoon, tooth for a tooth 

  You said that irony was the shackles of youth
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  R2:
  You wore a shirt of violent green, uh-huh 

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  I never understood the frequency, uh-huh 

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• ADHmiGAADAGADHmiGAADHmiEGAGA
  S3:
  "What's the frequency, Kenneth?" is your Benzedrine, uh-huh 

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  Butterfly decal, rearview mirror, dogging the scene 

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  You smile like the cartoon, tooth for a tooth 

  You said that irony was the shackles of youth
• DADGAAGADADGAAGA
  R2:
  You wore a shirt of violent green, uh-huh 

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  I never understood the frequency, uh-huh 

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• DADGAGADADGAGADADGAGADADGAAGAD
  D1:
  You wore our expectations like an armored suit 

  Uh-huh, I couldn't understand 

  You said that irony was the shackles of youth 

  Uh-huh, I couldn't understand 

  You wore a shirt of violent green 

  Uh-huh, I couldn't understand 

  I never understood, the frequency, uh-huh 

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