Easy to poke yourself square in the eye
Harder to like yourself, harder to try

These are espouses
Postcards and neoprene
Roses a dollar a stem
Everyone sleeping or pulling the long haul and
Keys in the cooler it's three A.M
And Saturn is beckoning no-one
It's offering up
Late shift convenience store, burn out the lights
Telescope roof towards the north-western sky
You pulled the ladder and no-ones the wiser
You find your sights and discover

Saturn is orbiting nothing
He's off on its own
He's breaking from home

Easy to poke yourself square in the eye
Harder to like yourself, harder to try

You found the ladder in the pattern of your wrist
You've seen and you've marked horizons
Mother was difficult, she made you cry
Cover the mirror, look to the sky
You climb into your rocket ship trying
Lift up and hold out your hands

Saturn is orbiting nothing
He's off on its own
He's breaking from home

Saturn is orbiting nothing
He's off on its own
He's breaking from home

Saturn returns when you chased down, it slows
Throw them into a new gravity

Harder to look yourself square in the eye
Easy to poke yourself, easy as pie
Easy to take off, harder to fly
Harder to wake Galileo


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Saturn Return Lyrics as written by Michael Mills Peter Buck

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    even though it's a fairly new one, i think this may be my favorite rem song. it's so unbelievably beautiful. at first, i heard it several times, only half listening, until finally looked down at the lines on my wrist and almost cried at how beautiful that part of the song is. our escape route to the stars lies within ourselves.

    renderon July 12, 2002   Link

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