It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
It's The End of the World As We Know It is a song on the Lancaster, Carlisle, and Loyola Marymount Canons during which students join hands and walk/run/skip around. It is also a part of Siena canon, but the dance is different. During the chorus, everyone jumps as high as they can (though not at Lancaster).
One of the papers on the buletin board in every hall has a listing of dance rules, and one of the rules is that students may not run or pull people apart during this song. This prompts RAs to stand at intervals along lines of students and yell "don't run!" when it is played whether or not people are in fact running. In the past two years, we have also skipped, which I suppose could be confused with running. Sometimes they will just settle for us skipping, not running, which causes almost everyone to skip really, really fast.
At LAN.06.2, Due to the RAs yelling, the middle of the chain would always be traffic-jamming, that is, running for a second or two, then running into the next person, who would suddenly begin running again. Also, due to an overpopulation of squirrels, there were way too many lines.
Lyrics
That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and
Snakes, an aeroplane and lenny bruce is not afraid
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn - world
Serves it's own needs, dummy serve your own needs. feed
It off an aux speak, grunt, no, strength, ladder
Start to clatter with fear fight down height. wire
In a fire, representing seven games, a government
For hire and a combat site. left of west and coming in
A hurry with the furies breathing down your neck. team
By team reporters baffled, trumped, tethered cropped
Look at that low playing! fine, then. uh oh,
Overflow, population, common food, but it'll do. save
Yourself, serve yourself. world serves it's own needs,
Listen to your heart bleed dummy with the rapture and
The revered and the right, right. you vitriolic,
Patriotic, slam, fight, bright light, feeling pretty Psyched
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine
Six o'clock - tv hour. don't get caught in foreign
Towers. slash and burn, return, listen to yourself
Churn. locking in, uniforming, book burning, blood
Letting. every motive escalate. automotive incinerate
Light a candle, light a votive. step down, step down
Watch your heel crush, crushed, uh-oh, this means no
Beer cavalier. renegade steer clear! a tournament,
Tournament, a tournament of lies. offer me solutions,
Offer me alternatives and I decline
(chorus)
It's the end of the world as we know it (it's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (it's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine (it's time I had some time alone)
I feel fine
(repeat chorus)
The other night I dreamt of knives, continental
Drift divide. mountains sit in a line, leonard
Bernstein. leonid brezhnev, lenny bruce and lester
Bangs. birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom! you
Symbiotic, patriotic, slam book neck, right? right
(repeat chorus)
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine (its time I had some time alone)
(repeat chorus 2x)
Fine
It's the end of the world as we know it (it's time I had some time alone)
