Everybody Wants To Rule The World

"Everybody Wants to Rule the World" is a song by the English New Wave band Tears for Fears. It was the band's ninth single release in the United Kingdom (the third from their second LP: Songs from the Big Chair) and seventh UK Top 40 chart hit, peaking at number two in April 1985. In the U.S., it was the lead single from the album and gave the band their first Billboard Hot 100 number-one hit on 8 June 1985, remaining there for two weeks. It also reached number-one on both the Hot Dance Music/Club Play and Hot Dance Singles Sales charts in the U.S. The song has since become the pinnacle of Tears for Fears' chart success, its endurance allowing it to accumulate over two million radio broadcasts by 1994, according to BMI.

[Instrumental Intro] [Verse 1] Welcome to your life There's no turning back Even while we sleep We will find you [Chorus] Acting on your best behaviour Turn your back on mother nature Everybody wants to rule the world [Verse 2] It's my own design It's my own remorse Help me to decide Help me make the [Chorus] Most of freedom and of pleasure Nothing ever lasts forever Everybody wants to rule the world [Bridge] 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 [Chorus] So glad we've almost made it So sad they had to fade it Everybody wants to rule the world [Instrumental Break] [Chorus] I can't stand this indecision Married with a lack of vision Everybody wants to rule the world [Breakdown] Say that you'll never, never, never, never need it One headline, why believe it? Everybody wants to rule the world [Chorus] All for freedom and for pleasure Nothing ever lasts forever Everybody wants to rule the world [Instrumental Outro]