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R.E.M. - We Are Hope Despite the Times - World Leader Pretend
We Are Hope Despite the Times
01. Turn You Inside‐Out
02. Pop Song 89
03. These Days
04. I Believe
05. Fall on Me
06. Welcome to the Occupation
07. World Leader Pretend
08. Drive
09. Begin the Begin
10. Finest Worksong
11. Exhuming McCarthy
12. Just a Touch
13. Cuyahoga
14. Disturbance at the Heron House
15. Swan Swan H
16. Ignoreland
17. Stand
18. It’s the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine)
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.