REM - Falls To Climb lyrics

rate me

I'll take the position

assume the missionare part

you work by committee,

you had me pegged from the start.

I'll be pounce pony,

phony maroney,

pony before the cart.

I'll be pounce pony.

this ceremony

only fills my heart.

who cast the final stone?

who threw the crushing blow?

someone has to take the fall

why not me?

a punch toy volunteer

a weakling on its knee.

is all you want to hear

and all you want to see.

romantically, you'd martyr me

and miss this story's point

it is my strength, my destiny

this is the role that I have chosen.

who cast the final stone?

who threw the crushing blow?

someone has to take the fall

why not me?

gentlemen mark your opponents

fire inte your own ranks.

pick the weakest as strategec

move. square off. to

meet your enemy.

for each and every gathering

a scapegoat falls to climb.

as I step forward, silently.

deliberately mine

who cast the final stone?

who threw the crushing blow?

someone has to take the fall

why not me? why not me.

had consequence chose differently

had fate its ugly head

my actions make me beautiful

and dignify the flesh

me. I am free. free.