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So Fast So Numb

R.e.m.
ChordsKeyCintermediate
★4.7(19)

Chords in this song7

Verse 1

You're movin' through rough waters motel boy,
and swimming in your sleep.
How could I be so blind, mis-sighted,
Not to see there's something wounded deep?
Anyone could scratch your surface now,
It's all amphetamine
You're blasting yourself into the present
Learn some vast indignity, say that,

Chorus

You say that you hate it,
You want to re-create it
I've been around, I've been your lover.
I let it go at Kill Devil Hill,
You're coming onto something so fast, so numb
That you can't even feel. 

Verse 2

You're drinking the raw adrenal baby,
You do-si-do, saddo
You're eating cartilage, shark-eyed, shark heart, all present,
Tense and boy your blood is running cold.
Listen, this is now, this is here, this is me,
This is what I wanted you to see.
That was then, was that, that is gone, this is past,
You cast yourself cast passed by thrown down fast, you say

Chorus

You say that you hate it,
You want to re-create it
I've played this round, I've played your lover.
I played it out to the hilt
You're coming onto something so fast, so numb
That you can't even feel. 

Solo

  
  
  

Verse 3

You love it. You hate it.
You want to re-create it.
Now, this is here, this is me,
This is what I wanted you to see.
That was then, was that, that is gone.
That is what I wanted you to feel.

Chorus

You love it. You hate it.
I’m spitting it out, the bitter pill.
I've been around, I've been your lover
I let it go at Kill Devil Hills.
You're coming onto something so fast, so numb
That you can't even feel.

Chorus

I've played this round, I've played your lover.
I've played it out to the hilt.
You're comin' onto something so fast, so numb
That you can't even feel. 

Outro

You’ve played around, you played me lover,
I let it go at Kill Devil Hills.
You're moving so hard, so fast, so numb
That you can't even feel. 
 

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