REM: "Nightswimming"

"Nightswimming

deserves a quiet night The photograph on the dashboard

taken years ago

Turned around backwards so the windshield shows

Every streetlight reveals a picture in reverse

Still it's so much clearer,

I forgot my shirt

At the water's edge,

the moon is low tonight

Nightswimming deserves a quiet night

I'm not sure all these people understand

It's not like years ago,

the fear of getting caught

The recklessness and water,

they cannot see me naked

These things they go away,

replaced by every day Nightswimming,

remembering that night September's coming soon,

I'm pining for the moon

And what if there were two side by side in orbit

Around the fairest sun, that bright, tight, forever drum

Could not describe

nightswimming"