Everybody Wants to Rule the World

The lyrics as I heard them by Andy Bull for Like a Version

Welcome to your life

There's no turning back

Even while you sleep

We will find you

Acting on your best behaviour

turn your back on Mother Nature

Everybody wants to rule the world

It's my own advice*

it's my only voice*

Help me to decide

how to make the most

of freedom and of pleasure

I know that nothing ever lasts for ever

and everyone wants to rule the world

There's a room where the light won't find you

Or no hands when the walls come tumbling down*

when they do, I'll be right beside you

So glad we almost made it

so sad they had to fade it

everybody wants to rule the world.

I can't stand this indecision

or is it the lack of vision

everybody wants to rule the world

Say that you'll never never ever ever need it

one headline why believe it

when everybody wants to rule the world

wants to rule the world

*not quite right

Thank you Tears for Fears for these lyrics that resonate in the way that only a good 80s track can - easy to sing along to and profound in the cheesiest but most satisfying of ways. Mmm cheese :)