Falls To Climb - R.E.M.

I’ll take the position

Assume the missionary part

You work by committee

You had me pegged from the start.

I’ll be pounce pony

Phony maroney

Pony before the cart.

I’ll be pounce pony.

This ceremony

Only fills my heart.

Who cast the final stone?

Who threw the crushing blow?

Someone has to take the fall

Why not me?

A punch toy volunteer

A weakling on its knee.

Is all you want to hear

And all you want to see.

Romantically, you’d martyr me

And miss this story’s point

It is my strength, my destiny

This is the role that I have chosen.

Who cast the final stone?

Who threw the crushing blow?

Someone has to take the fall