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It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

1987Released
4:06

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Explaining this song to Q magazine in 1992, lead singer Michael Stipe said: "The words come from everywhere. I'm extremely aware of everything around me, whether I am in a sleeping state, awake, dream-state or just in day to day life. There's a part in 'It's The End Of The World As We Know It' that came from a dream where I was at Lester Bangs' birthday party and I was the only person there whose initials weren't L.B. So there was Lenny Bruce, Leonid Brezhnev, Leonard Bernstein... So that ended up in the song along with a lot of stuff I'd seen when I was flipping TV channels. It's a collection of streams of consciousness."

This was heavily influenced by Bob Dylan, especially the way Dylan sang "Subterranean Homesick Blues." Stipe had once imitated Dylan in a low-budget film called Just Like a Movie, which was a play on the Dylan song "Just Like A Woman."

Stipe claims to have a lot of dreams about the end of the world, destroyed buildings and the like. His stream-of-consciousness writing style in this is very similar to the way a dream moves.

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine).
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MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
103BPM

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Capitol Records
© 1993 Capitol Records, LLC
℗ 1993 Capitol Records, LLC

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