Life and How to Live It - R.E.M.

Burn bright through the night, two pockets lead the way

Two doors to go between the wall was raised today

Two doors, two names to call your other and your own

Keep these books well stocked away and take your happy home

My carpenter's out and running about and talking to the street

My pockets are out and running about and barking in the street

To tell what I have hidden there

Burn bright through the night, two pockets lead the way

Two doors to go between the wall was raised today

Raise the walls to hide these flaws, the carpenter should rest

So that when you tire of one side the other serves you best

My carpenter's out and running about, talking to the street

My pockets are out and running about and barking in the street

To tell what I have hidden there

The hills ringing hear the words in time, listen to the holler

Listen to my walls within my tongue

Can't you see you made my ears go tin

The air quicken tension building inference suddenly

Life and how to live it

Raise the walls to hide these flaws, the carpenter should rest

So that when you tire of one side the other serves you best

Read about the wisdom wall, the knock-knock-knock

A secret knock, one hammer's locked, the other wisdom's lost

My carpenter's out and running about and talking to the street

My pockets are out and running about and barking in the street

To tell what I have hidden there

My carpenter's out and running about, walking the

Listen to the holler

My pockets are out and running about, barking in the street

To tell what I have hidden there

Listen, listen to the holler

If I write a book it will be called

Life and how to live it