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


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Everybody Wants to Rule the World Lyrics as written by Ian Stanley Christopher Merrick Hughes

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    I think it's about freedom of choice, enjoying yourself in your own way and standing up against people who only want power, conformism ("acting on your best behaviour") and the messages given in the media ("one headline why believe it"), even if it means you are persecuted for those beliefs ("holding hands while the walls come tumbling down"). He is annoyed at people who lack the decisiveness and vision to do this. I think his "remorse" is about the way the world is. "Everybody wants to rule the world" could refer not only to the people who only want power, but also that if he gets the freedom and pleasure he craves, he could also feel like he rules the world.

    finnegan63on June 09, 2009   Link

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