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 (And I Feel Fine) 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 at Carlisle and Loyola Marymount, everyone jumps as high as they can.

One of the papers on the bulletin 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. Students oftentimes skip to bypass this rule, although, depending on both site and RA, this may or may not be tolerated.

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

It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine), by R.E.M.

That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane - Lenny Bruce is not afraid. Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn - world serves its own needs, dont misserve your own needs. Feed it off an aux speak, grunt, no, strength, turn, ladder start to clatter with fear fight down height. Wire in a fire, representing seven games, in 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 its 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,and book burning, blood letting. Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate. Light a candle, light a motive. Step down, step down. Watch your heel crush, crushed, uh-oh, this means no fear cavalier. Renegade steer clear! A tournament, a 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

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.

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 (it's time I had some time alone)

Chorus

Chorus

Fine It's the end of the world as we know it (it's time I had some time alone)