World Leader Pretend - R.E.M.

R.E.M. - R.E.M.’s Top Forty Playlist (according to Berry, Buck, Mills and Stipe) - World Leader Pretend

01.	World Leader Pretend
02.	Country Feedback
03.	Strange Currencies
04.	The Lifting
05.	Electron Blue
06.	Supernatural Superserious
07.	Oh My Heart
08.	We All Go Back to Where We Belong
09.	The Flowers of Guatemala
10.	Half a World Away
11.	Feeling Gravity’s Pull
12.	So. Central Rain
13.	Walk Unafraid
14.	You’re in the Air
15.	Discoverer
16.	All the Way to Reno (You’re Gonna Be a Star)
17.	Try Not to Breathe
18.	Undertow
19.	Electrolite
20.	Finest Worksong
21.	Wolves, Lower
22.	Pilgrimage
23.	I Believe
24.	It’s the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine)
25.	You Are the Everything
26.	Orange Crush
27.	What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?
28.	How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us
29.	Living Well Is the Best Revenge
30.	Every Day Is Yours to Win
31.	Beachball
32.	Daysleeper
33.	Leaving New York
34.	These Days
35.	We Walk
36.	I Remember California
37.	I Don’t Sleep, I Dream
38.	Rotary Ten
39.	Voice of Harold
40.	Find the River

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.

(Freedom)
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.
(Freedom)
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.
(Freedom)
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.