Everybody Wants to Rule the World

It would be so cliche to post this given that the elections is just five days away (PCOS machine epic fail notwithstanding), not to mention the recent Tears for Fears concert at Araneta that everybody is still high from, but it works.

The first cassette tape I ever owned was Songs from the Big Chair. My dad bought it for me and I remember feeling so grown up, owning something so “adult” as a cassette tape that didn’t have cartoon characters on the cover. I have to say that my dad’s pretty cool music-wise (among many other things). I’ll never forget how he sided with me when I begged my mom to let me watch Pearl Jam in Folk Arts on a school night! He still listens to new music, the last CD I heard him play was Kelly Clarkson’s haha 😛

Anyway, here’s Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith. I never imagined that a song I sang in 1985 for fun would hold so much more meaning now…and dread. Nayks 🙁

Everybody Wants to Rule The World

Welcome to your life
There’s no turning back
Even while we 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 design
It’s my own remorse
Help me to decide
Help me make the most
Of freedom and of pleasure
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 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
Everybody wants to rule the world
Say that you’ll never never never NEVER need it
One headline why believe it ?
Everybody wants to rule the world

All for freedom and for pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
Everybody wants to rule the world