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Theme from Two Steps Onward

R.E.M.
Track 33 on And I Feel Fine... The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982–1987 
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Theme from Two Steps Onward Lyrics

If you hear this, look again
Don't be a stranger
Don't be a shadow to this boy

Steal me a listen
Steal me a song
Turn a tin ear on its side

Write a letter, give a call
Let me know you're alive
And doing well

I’ll follow your whim
I’ll be at your arm if worlds collide
Not to alarm
But little can calm
The storm you left behind my eyes

Write a letter, give a call
Let me know you're alive
And doing well
It's everything for two
Don't be a stranger
Don't be a shadow to this boy

It's nothing to three
A quartеr past evening
The quartеr you live in haunts my eyes
Write a letter, give a call
Let me know you're alive
And doing well
It's everything for two
Don't be a stranger
Don't be a shadow to this boy

Don't be a stranger
Don't be a shadow
Don't be a shadow to this boy
Don't be a shadow to this boy
Don't be a shadow to this boy

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And I Feel Fine... The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982–1987 (2006)
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    Begin the Begin
  2. 2.
    Radio Free Europe
  3. 3.
    Pretty Persuasion
  4. 4.
    Talk About the Passion
  5. 5.
    (Don’t Go Back to) Rockville
  6. 6.
    Sitting Still
  7. 7.
    Gardening at Night
  8. 8.
    7 Chinese Bros.
  9. 9.
    So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
  10. 10.
    Driver 8
  11. 11.
    Can’t Get There from Here
  12. 12.
    Finest Worksong
  13. 13.
    Feeling Gravitys Pull
  14. 14.
    I Believe
  15. 15.
    Life and How to Live It
  16. 16.
    Cuyahoga
  17. 17.
    The One I Love
  18. 18.
    Welcome to the Occupation
  19. 19.
    Fall on Me
  20. 20.
    Perfect Circle
  21. 21.
    It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
  22. 22.
    Pilgrimage
  23. 23.
    These Days
  24. 24.
    Gardening At Night (Demo) (Missing Lyrics)
  25. 25.
    Radio Free Europe (Original Hib-Tone Single)
  26. 26.
    Sitting Still (Original Hib-Tone single B-side)
  27. 27.
    Life And How To Live It (Live at Muziekcentrum Vredenburg, 1987) (Missing Lyrics)
  28. 28.
    Ages Of You (Live at the Paradise Rock Club, 1983) (Missing Lyrics)
  29. 29.
    We Walk (Live at the Paradise Rock Club, 1983) (Missing Lyrics)
  30. 30.
    1,000,000 (Live at the Paradise Rock Club, 1983) (Missing Lyrics)
  31. 31.
    Finest Worksong [Other Mix]
  32. 32.
    Hyena (Athens Demo)
  33. 33.
    Theme from Two Steps Onward
  34. 34.
    Superman
  35. 35.
    All The Right Friends (Studio Outtake)
  36. 36.
    Mystery to Me
  37. 37.
    Just A Touch (Live in the Studio) (Missing Lyrics)
  38. 38.
    Bad Day (Outtake)
  39. 39.
    King of Birds
  40. 40.
    Swan Swan H (Acoustic)
  41. 41.
    Disturbance at the Heron House
  42. 42.
    Time After Time (Annelise)
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