R.E.M. - World Leader Pretend Lyrics

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"World Leader Pretend" by R.E.M. was released on October 31, 1988, as part of their sixth studio album, Green. The song was written by band members Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Bill Berry.

Song lyrics

I sit at my table and wage war on myself

It seems like it's all, it's all for nothing

I know the barricades

And I know the mortar in the wall breaks

I recognise the weapons, I've used them well


This is my mistake

Let me make it good

I raised the wall

And I will be the one to knock it down


I've a rich understanding of my finest defences

I proclaim that claims are left unstated

I demand a rematch


I decree a stalemate

I divine my deeper motives

I recognise the weapons

I've practised them well

I fitted them myself


It's amazing what devices you can sympathize

Empathise

This is my mistake, let me make it good

I raised the wall

And I will be the one to knock it down


Reach out for me

Hold me tight

Hold that memory

Let my machine talk to me

Let my machine talk to me


This is my world,and I am the World Leader Pretend

This is my life, and this is my time

I have been given the freedom to do as I see fit

It's high time I razed the walls that I've constructed


It's amazing what devices you can sympathize

Empathise

This is my mistake, let me make it good

I raised the wall

And I will be the one to knock it down


You fill in the mortar

You fill in the harmony

You fill in the mortar

I raised the wall

And I'm the only one

I will be the one to knock it down

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