One of the better received songs from R.E.M.’s 2004 album Around the Sun, widely regarded as the least good in their catalogue.[Verse 1]

So hesitation pulled me back

I'm stronger when I don't attract

In your eyes I'm a lamb without a rack

And I am getting confused

I'm a cactus trying to be a canoe

As you pan for ore in the desert, floored, I say to you

That I could never imagine a place so beautiful

I could never steal your gold away

[Chorus]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

(I try to walk like a big wham bam

I came across like a battering ram)

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

(I try to float like a Telegram Sam

I'm trying to divine you)

[Verse 2]

My book is called "The Ascent of Man"

I marked your chapter with a catamaran

The accent's off, but I am what I am

[Chorus]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

(I try to walk like a big wham bam

I came across like a battering ram)

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

(I try to float like a Telegram Sam

I'm trying to divine you)

[Verse 3]

I looked for you, it's my last grandstand

A motorscootered goat-legged Pan

Figure eighting in quicksand

[Chorus]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

(I try to walk like a big wham bam

I came across like a battering ram)

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

(I try to float like a Telegram Sam

I'm trying to divine you)

[Outro]

So hesitation pulled me back

I'm so in love I don't attract

And with my hands tied I won't crack