Strange Currencies

Album: Monster (1994)
Charted: 9 47
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  • I don't know why you're mean to me
    When I call on the telephone
    And I don't know what you mean to me
    But I want to turn you on
    Turn you up, figure you out
    I want to take you on

    These words, you will be mine
    These words, you will be mine, all the time

    Now fool might be my middle name
    But I'd be foolish not to say
    I'm going to make whatever it takes
    Ring you up, call you down, sign your name
    Secret love, make it rhyme
    Take you in and make you mine

    These words, you will be mine
    These words, you will be mine, all the time

    I tripped and fell, did I fall
    What I want to feel
    I want to feel it now

    You know with love comes strange currencies
    And here is my appeal
    I need a chance, a second chance, a third chance
    A fourth chance, a word, a signal
    A nod, a little breath
    Just to fool myself, to catch myself
    And make it real, real

    These words, you will be mine
    These words, you will be mine, all the time

    These words, you will be mine
    These words haunt me, hunt me down, catch in my throat
    Make me pray, to say love's confines, oh Writer/s: Bill Berry, Michael Mills, Michael Stipe, Peter Buck
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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