Lyrics for I Want To Conquer The World as interpreted by oofus

I Want To Conquer The World Lyrics
Hey Brother Christian with your high and might errand,
Your actions speak so loud, I can't hear a word you're saying.
Hey Sister Bleeding Heart with all of your compassion,
Your labors soothe the hurt but can't assuage temptation.
Hey man of science with your perfect rules of measure,
Can you improve this place with the data that you gather?
Hey Mother Mercy can your loins bear fruit forever?
Is your fecundity a trammel or a treasure?
And I want to conquer the world,
Give all the idiots a brand new religion,
Put an end to poverty, uncleanliness and toil,
Promote equality in all my decisions
With a quick wink of the eye
And a "God you must be joking!"
Hey Mr. Diplomat with your worldly aspirations,
Did you see the children cry when you left them at the station?
Hey moral soldier you've got righteous proclamation,
And precious tomes to fuel your pulpy conflagrations.
And I want to conquer the world,
Give all the idiots a brand new religion,
Put an end to poverty, uncleanliness and toil,
Promote equality in all of my decisions
I want to conquer the world,
Expose the culprits and feed them to the children,
I'll do away with air pollution and then all save the whales,
We'll have peace on earth and global communion.
I want to conquer the world! (x4)

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Woofsis
05-19-2009

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What I think it means is that stupid people who just want to take over the world to create wars and neglect to small contries but really the song is saying what NEEDS to be done.


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shokwave
01-29-2009

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As far as I know, the verse describes all the people he thinks have tried to improve the world but their idealism has ended with them either hindering progress or actively hurting it. IE religion and science and compassion and righteous war try to make the world a better place, and they just end up ruining more lives, getting bogged down in details, mollycoddling people without fixing their problems, and just plain getting people killed.

The chorus is mocking that kind of "fix the world" idealism, that it will be as easy as putting an end to poverty "with a quick wink of the eye".

So the verse describes the people that the chorus imitates and mocks.

I don't know where I read it, but I read a quote from Greg Graffin about this song, something like
"A jarhead came up to me one performance, after we ended with this song, and his eyes were bright and he was enthusiastic, telling me 'Yeah man I feel exactly the same way!' and I just couldn't believe he was that oblivious"

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Bender is great
11-26-2008

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I think it's about people who have fixed ideologies and think that their way is "the way" and if they could conquer the world they would set things right. others have commented that its a pessimistic song because you'll fail trying to fix things and that's right but i think its also used to attack people with dogmatic beliefs, be they right or left, religious or secular, or whatever. one of the best BR songs!

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pinkfade
10-29-2008

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"Promote equality in all my decisions
With a quick wink of the eye
And a "God you must be joking!"

if yur gonna put things into context and analyze, this is where to begin.

self-rightous people have these panaceas they come up with and.. its ridiculous...it wont work...

its showing the ignorance of perspectives..even the ones with good intentions..

and alot of the song could be just lashing out...

but ones who are so ambitious.. even though its impossible...if they could do these tasks would result in many of the same problems.

theyre deep meaning in this song im not sure i understand.

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tngbnhd
01-25-2008

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Everybody listed in the song considers themselves fighting for the greater good (religion). The chorus is poking fun at their beliefs, because you can't conquer the world and promote equality in all of your decisions. It's a contradiction, because not everyone is going to agree with your decisions. Generally anyone who says they can fix these problems is lying. The bridge sounds like it's coming from the prospective of the writer of the song saying instead of trying to bring everyone to his way of thinking, he'd promote global communion.

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duffdrinkinhomer
11-29-2007

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I believe the quote by Lord Acton is a great way to describe this song:
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Basically, the song is sung from some one who is not in power, therefore, he has the best of intentions if he were given that authority - he'd save the wales, and create peace on earth.

Unfortunately, when someone DOES have that power, they don't waste their time helping the greater good or doing those things they promise.

I believe the song is quite a satire on Political races. The canidates will say what everone wants to hear, but never actually do those things, had they the power.

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meanieFACE
08-24-2007

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I love this song.
When I first heard this band I didn't care for them
But as I started listening to the lyrics
I grew to like them more and more.
Now they happen to be one of my favorite bands.

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TheOlderIGet
07-22-2007

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Madcappunk is defiantly the closest to correct in my opinion. at least thats what iv always gotten out of the song....

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clamum
07-08-2007

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Gurewitz wrote this song, get your stuff straight to those who are saying it was Graffin. ;-)

Anyway, I pretty much agree with what kuffs said about it being a sarcastic song. The narrator wants to conquer the world and is questioning all these other perspectives (soldier, diplomat, scientist, etc) when really the narrator's actions are just another perspective to someone else.

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likequicksand
06-28-2007

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i think its talking about all of these different groups/people that think theyre making the world a better place but its not working. you're stupid to think you can change the world in the blink of an eye.

"Hey Brother Christian with your high and might errand,
Your actions speak so loud, I can't hear a word you're saying.
Hey Sister Bleeding Heart with all of your compassion,
Your labors soothe the hurt but can't assuage temptation.
Hey man of science with your perfect rules of measure,
Can you improve this place with the data that you gather?"
religious groups-they try so relentlessly to convert people that people ignore them. although they go out and do all of these good deeds, its not gonna stop people from "sinning."

"Hey Mother Mercy can your loins bear fruit forever?
Is your fecundity a trammel or a treasure?"
-is having mercy on these ignorant people a good thing or a bad thing?

"And I want to conquer the world,
Give all the idiots a brand new religion,
Put an end to poverty, uncleanliness and toil,
Promote equality in all my decisions
With a quick wink of the eye
And a "God you must be joking!"
-the chorus is sarcastic. this person thinks that with his/her religion, he/she can change the world in the blink of an eye, only to find out they were wrong

"Hey Mr. Diplomat with your worldly aspirations,
Did you see the children cry when you left them at the station?
Hey moral soldier you've got righteous proclamation,
And precious tomes to fuel your pulpy conflagrations."
-the diplomats try to aid foreign countries, but theres still poverty there. soldiers can say they have the honor of dying for their country, but the war is because of religion (precious tomes, referring to the bible and such)

"And I want to conquer the world,
Give all the idiots a brand new religion,
Put an end to poverty, uncleanliness and toil,
Promote equality in all of my decisions
I want to conquer the world,
Expose the culprits and feed them to the children,
I'll do away with air pollution and then all save the whales,
We'll have peace on earth and global communion.
I want to conquer the world! "
-the ending is totally sarcastic. no more air pollution, save the whales(sortuve ridiculous), and theres no chance in hell everyone will have a global communion in peace.

i think the message is pretty obvious, but hey, i could be wrong.

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Richard Enahobo
06-14-2007

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I don't think anyone could control the entire world without fucking it up. I'm pretty sure it's sarcastic, he sounds idealistic and like an overbearing dictator at the same time.

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Skuitar21
06-12-2007

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I want the world to be conquered too. It would be alot different. (:

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St.Catastrophe
02-07-2007

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This song is ironical, like he sounds like a dictator or politician exactly.

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aNthraXx
08-26-2006

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To me this sounds like Greg was desperate to say this within a song, and i think he did it perfectly.

The lyrics describe the ideals of what he would like to achieve, what he would view as a perfect world where everyone understood each other and conflict and exploitation was eradicated. "We'll have peace on earth.." shows this.

But Greg is aware that this ideal is impossible, and he shows this with the lines "with a quick wink of the eye...", demonstrating the corruption within alot of politics today. The picture that this song paints is idealic but the song has an underlying tone of frustration/desperation with the knowledge that it is unlikely this utopia will occur.

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Unright
04-14-2006

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I've always liked this song. It's a race for BR against other idealists to be the first to 'save' the world by making it better. Even though they're all adding to the problem of forcing their version of 'better' on everyone.

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macks
02-10-2006

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this song means how if he could conquer the world and make everything run his way he could stop all the troubles. but tahts what politicians say and of course there is no such perfect solution.

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darkfox89
01-27-2006

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be aware that i am only 16....my mind is expanding everyday!!! be happy im not drinking/smoking/having "fun" at high school parties etc. like the majority of our youth.... but what good is it to have opinions and take no action? ........thats why i am in a band...but my generation is pathetic....we arent "hardcore"....our vocals arent very good...we dont scream....our appearance doesnt match our music....we need a new singer....blah f-cking blah...at least we have true beliefs..i dont have a problem with religion if you TRULY have faith...but who does anymore....ok get this...this girl in my german class is a "church go-er" and she was pissed because she had to attend church on christmas......WTF....fuck that....i refuse to attend church anymore its a FUCKiNG trend now....kids go to church to skip it and go smoke....please help me help our future.... www.freewebs.com/madamex and www.myspace.com/vomitonme (i am not just trying to get famous and conform!!) i love this site...a meeting place for the open-minded....Much Love...

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darkfox89
01-26-2006

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i think he is using sarcasim....from governments point of view....like what the presidents "say" they will do for our "great" nation but just want complete control....just giving the idiots a brand new religion....hes mimicing them.....being what he despises....but also saying what he truly feels....but he is aware that the human instinct of GREED will kick in once they obtain.....

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gofuckyourself
02-28-2005

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also, Put an end to poverty, uncleanliness and toil,
Promote equality in all my decisions
With a quick wink of the eye
And a "God you must be joking!", sounds a little like he is questioning punk rock, not so much in it's goals, but in its actions, i see greedier, richer, stupider, more dangerous people entering branches of power every year, we get pissed off, and we might have the right idea, but is that any better than having the wrong idea if we aren't doing a goddamn thing?

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gofuckyourself
02-28-2005

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Best song on No Control, and one of BR's overall best, anyone who said Process of... is BR's best is a fucking idiot...88-93 was their peak...this song is about people who give wrong answers to our problems, and are just trying to get more rich, and more food and luxury then they deserve, they tell you they will end poverty, but when was the last time they even tried to do something about it? Greg Graffin is a motherfucking genius...

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Avarant
02-07-2005

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wow, vampirella, I could not possibly disagree with you more.

you have to remember this is punkrock, not .. well whatever Tool is classified as now (I know they were metal, but they seem to have transcended that genre sort of)

Personally I think of Greg as one of the most brilliant lyricists and one of the best vocalists punk has ever had. (Jason Cruz from Strung Out too)

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vampirella666
02-04-2005

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Amazing lyrics. Well written. The entire band (less the vocals) is bloody amazing. But the volcalist seems to be completely for just cutting off the ends of phrases and really gross tuning....But I think with a different singer it would be good...actually with Maynard from Tool I think it would be amazing...

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goodbar
12-17-2004

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mr. brett said this is one of his most misunderstood songs and everyone who talks to him about it has no clue as to what it's about.

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JoE][BoXeR
11-23-2004

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Great song, and I agree with Dogsweat and Avarant for the most part, though I don't feel every leader is filled with greed lol.

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Dogsweat
10-30-2004

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I agree with Avarant.Everyone seems to have all the intentions but doing everything wrong to fix the problem.But think about it.What if we conqured the world?We already know what mistakes not to make and we know what's right.Take the out our leaders filled with greed and let's do something about it!

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