Everybody_Wants_to_Rule_the_World x3

The Black Soft – Everybody Wants to Rule the World [m4a download]

The Smiths vs Tears For Fears - Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This Mashup Before (BRAT Mashup)

Lorde - Everybody Wants to Rule the World

LYRICS

Tears for Fears lyrics mix personal psychotherapy (their first album was about Primal Scream therapy) and global politics in equal measure, so most lyrics can be read multiple ways. This song is equally parts about egos, the Cold War and apathy.


Welcome to your life there's no turning back -  even while we sleep [there is no escape from life].
[Even while you sleep] we will [still] find you acting on your best behaviour [by] turn your back on mother nature [aka natural urges]

Everybody wants to rule the world

It's my own design [so it's also] my own remorse.
Help me to decide [how to] make the most of freedom and of pleasure [because] nothing ever lasts forever

Everybody wants to rule the world

There's a room where the light won't find you, holding hands while the walls come tumbling down





When [the walls tumble] they do I'll be right behind you  

So glad we've almost made it, so sad they had to fade it....



Everybody wants to rule the world

I can't stand this indecision married with a lack of vision


[The song was recorded in 1985, 5 years before Bush Sr. complained that the public wanted him to have 'a vision' but he did not get the "vision thing" they were complaining about -but since this quote lead to the great Sister's of Mercy's Vision Thing, I'm still referencing it]

Everybody wants to rule the world

Say that you'll never need it. [It's only] one headline why believe it?



Everybody wants to rule the world

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The original chorus was "Everybody Wants to Go to War" but it was changed to a Clash reference
[a song that itself references Apocalypse Now]

CLASH - "Charlie Don't Surf"

Everybody wants to rule the world
Must be something we get from birth
One truth is we never learn
Satellites will make space burn

We've been told to keep the strangers out
We don't like them starting to hang around
We don't like them all over town
Across the world we are going to blow them down

The reign of the super powers must be over
So many armies can't free the earth
Soon the rock will roll over
Africa is choking on their Coca Cola

It's a one a way street in a one horse town
One way people starting to brag around
You can laugh, put them down
These one way people gonna blow us down

Charlie don't surf he'll never learn
Charlie don't surf though he's got a gun
Charlie don't surf think that he should
Charlie don't surf we really think he should
Charlie don't surf

Charlie don't surf and we think he should
Charlie don't surf and you know that it ain't no good