Collapse into Now es un álbum de R.E.M., publicado en 2011 por Warner Bros. Records. El disco incluye 12 canciones, entre ellas «Discoverer», «All the Best», «Überlin» y «Oh My Heart».
Sobre el álbum
La discografía de R.E.M. llega a su fin con este álbum, un trabajo que funciona como un adiós consciente y una celebración de toda su carrera. En "Collapse into Now", la banda decide hacer un recorrido por los diferentes sonidos que exploraron a lo largo de su historia. El disco es un mosaico que incluye desde el rock enérgico y directo hasta las baladas acústicas y los experimentos más pop.Cada canción parece un guiño a una etapa diferente de su trayectoria. Por ejemplo, "Überlin" recuerda al pop melódico de "Automatic for the People", mientras que "All the Best" tiene la energía de "Accelerate". El álbum cuenta con colaboraciones de amigos como Patti Smith o Eddie Vedder, lo que refuerza su tono de despedida. Es decir, la banda cierra su carrera con una obra que resume su legado de manera elegante y emotiva. Es un epílogo digno y conmovedor para una de las bandas más importantes de la historia.
Listado de Canciones
- Discoverer3:31
Letra
Hey baby this is not a challenge It just means that I love you As much as I always said I did I was wrong I have been laughable wrong Sandpaper, paper, marche, chalk And hung out wet On the city and your skin now I didn't have to be afraid I didn't have to feel so stupid I can see myself I can feel Chorus That just the slightest bit of finesse Might have made a little less mess But it was what it was Let's all get on with it now Discover (repeats) Laughing Discover Floating across Houston This is where I am I see the city rise up tall The opportunities and possibilities I have never felt so called Remember the vodka espresso Night of discovery Remember that Laughing Discover Oh how I look back and reflect How I felt it How it set I don't have to feel so wrong now I wake up dreaming saffron Turmeric and brass Chorus - All the Best2:47
Letra
So over me So pie in my face So talk to me And tell me where to place this In my Quasimodo heart That's when I slipped and fell I rang the church bell Till my ears bled red blood cells I think I'll sing it in rhyme I'll give it one more time I'll show the kids how to do it Fine, fine, fine I hold the mirror up You tell me what is what You tell me which part Of my story, baby, stuck, stuck, stuck I'm in a part of your dreams That you don't even understand It's just like me to overstay My welcome, man Let's sing it in rhyme Let's give it one more time Let's show the kids how to do it Fine, fine, fine, fine I just had to get that off my chest Now it's time to get on with the rest All the best All the best All the best All the best, best, best It's just like me to overstay My welcome, bless Let's sing it in rhyme Let's give it one more time Let's show the kids how to do it Fine, fine, fine, fine Let's sing it in rhyme Let's give it one more time Let's show the kids how to do it Fine, fine, fine, fine - Überlin4:14
Vídeo
- Oh My Heart3:20
Letra
The kids have a new take A new take on faith Pick up the pieces Get carried away I came home to city half erased I came home to face what we faced This place needs me here to start This place is the beat of my heart Oh my heart Oh my heart (Oh my heart) Oh my heart Oh my heart (Oh my heart) Storm didn't kill me The government changed Hear the answer call Hear the song rearranged Hear the tress, the ghosts and the buildings sing With the wisdom to reconcile this thing It's sweet and it's sad and it's true How it doesn't look bitter on you Oh my heart Oh my heart (Oh my heart) Oh my heart Oh my heart (Oh my heart) Mother and father I stand beside you The good of this world Might help see me through This place needs me here to start This place is the beat of my heart Oh my heart Oh my heart (Oh my heart) Oh my heart Oh my heart (Oh my heart) - It Happened Today3:48
Letra
This is not a parable This is a terrible This is a terrible thing Yes I will rhyme that, after, after all I've done today I have earned my wings It happened today. Hooray! Hooray! It happened. Hip, hip, hooray! We'll leave the allegory to a different Bible story Out of deference, defiance, the choice Closing on a promise, after, after all I've done today I have earned my voice It happened today. Hooray! Hooray! It happened. Hip, hip, hooray! Oohs, and aahs, and awws - Every Day Is Yours to Win3:26
- Mine Smell Like Honey3:12
Letra
I would dare you, but I know I don't need to You're going to do just what you want to You're going to take the leavings here at the fairground You're going to sing the praises of your fruit Mine smell like honey, uh! Mine smell like honey, uh! Mine smell like hu, hu, hu, hu, honey, uh! Dig a hole, dig it deeper, deeper! Climb a mountain, climb it steeper, steeper! Dig a hole, dig it deeper, deeper! Track a trail of honey through it all If the end comes faster than we had expected And predictions lead us to the final fall If the flowers crack the grave (grain?) and leave the patterns of the pavement I can hear you shouting over it all Mine smell like honey, uh! Mine smell like honey, uh! Mine smell like hu, hu, hu, hu, honey, uh! Dig a hole, dig it deeper, deeper! Climb a mountain, climb it steeper, steeper! Dig a hole, dig it deeper, deeper! Track a trail of honey through it all Dig a hole, dig it deeper, deeper! Climb a mountain, climb it steeper, steeper! Dig a hole, dig it deeper, deeper! Track a trail of honey through it all You track a trail of honey through it all You track a trail of honey - Walk It Back3:24
Letra
Walk it back Walk it back Walk it back What What would you Have had me say Instead of what I said? Where Where would I go How could I follow that Except to do what I did, Which is to Walk it back Walk it back Walk it back Time Reverse and rewind, Erase and revise And try to start again You Don't you turn this around I have not touched the ground In I don't know how long You say to Walk it back (x6) Time Time Time, it cannot abide You You can't turn away You've asked me to stay, But something needs to change Why can't you? Walk it back (x6) - Alligator Aviator Autopilot Antimatter
Letra
I feel like an alligator Climbing up the escalator Climbing up the escalator I feel strong I feel like an aviator pilot Bet you wouldn't fly it I'm feeling violent Bet you beady-eye it Turn up the fly it, beat Hey, hey, alligator, you've got a lot to learn I have got, have got a lot to learn I feel like an autopilot I'm heroic, strong and silent I feel like a rage coming under my hood! I feel good and calm like a robot would! I feel like an autopilot I feel like an autopilot I am not a hater hater hater hater hater Hey, hey, alligator, you've got a lot to learn I have got, have got a lot to learn (Peaches: I feel like a contradiction I'm a walking science fiction I don't know which way to turn I've got a lot to burn I've got a lot of lot to burn) If I didn't like the way you stared at me! If I didn't like the way you stared at me! I could knock you sideways, I could knock you blind I could show you found to the lost and find I am not an agitator (agitator) I feel like an alligator (alligator) Climbing up the escalator... Hey, hey, alligator, you've got a lot to learn I have got, have got a lot to learn (Peaches: You've got so much to learn... You've got a lot to learn.) - That Someone Is You1:44
Letra
With the restraint of New Order covers, young marble giants I sat quietly waiting For someone else to make the first move Someone has to make the first move... That someone is you That someone is you That someone has pulled me up and out of cartoon quicksand Pulled me up and out of me! And with the fury lock of Sharon Stone Casino Scarface, Al Pacino, '74 Torino Waiting for someone else to make the first move Someone has to make the first move That someone is you That someone is you That someone has pulled me up and out of cartoon quicksand Pulled me up and out of me! Pulled me up and out of cartoon quicksand Pulled me up and out of me! - Me, Marlon Brando, Marlon Brando and I3:03
Letra
We live and dream about the future Please ask Neil I need to pow wow, now Sift through the annals of our flavored times, Our heroes and all their fatal flaws Me, Marlon Brando, Marlon Brando and I, sing Lay me down down down down Lay me down down down down down Help me off to sleep Take me deep again We live and dream about our heroes I listened closely, and I said, "I'm not sure where to place myself here, friend. I might pawn the gold rings instead. " The winners write the rule books The histories and lullabies Lay me down down down down Lay me down down down down down Help me off to sleep Take me deep again I heard what you said Picture brass rings in your head, While gold and bronze are... Bonbons Brass is mixed with lead - Blue5:45
Letra
Yellow circus left the stakes a broken ropes world's useless mug The ties that bind, ha ha I can be bad poet Street poet Shit poet Kind poet too Subway Almost 4AM Halloween night Had enough to drink to make my own party All my fellow writers in half costume, half asleep Half silly, gone to seed I don't mark my time with dates, holidays, faded wisdom, locked karma Holders Convenient I am made by my times I am a creation of now Shaken with the cracks and crevices I'm not giving up easy I will not fold I don't have much But what I have is gold I saw your face... I sing in platinum I dress in brass I eat in zinc Let it pass Compare a toast I like that I understand courage I still roll with the shout of a character I was married to today I try to see outside myself I understand the eyes Excuse all the highs Sorry I am sorry Ha ha I like you, love you, every coast of you. I've seen your eddies and tides and hurricanes and cyclones. Low ebb tide and high, full moon. Up close and distant. I read you. Look, the sky, the sea, the ocean, the sun, the moon. Blue, blue, blue, blue, blue, blue, blue blue, blue, blue, blue, Blue. Naked and blue. Breathing with you. Touch. Change. Shift. Allow air. Window open. Drift. Drift away. Into now. I want Whitman proud. Patti Lee proud. My brothers proud. My sisters Proud. I want me. I want it all. I want sensational. Irresistible. This is my time and I am thrilled to be alive. Living. Blessed. I understand. Twentieth century: Collapse Into Now Cinderella boy You've lost your shoe Cinderella boy Your coach awaits A sun makes shadows All over your face As you sit Naked and blue Into me
