Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Robert Glasper/Lalah Hathaway/Common

Lyrics by：Ian Stanley/Roland Orzabal/Christopher Merrick Hughes

Composed by：Ian Stanley/Roland Orzabal/Christopher Merrick Hughes

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

Everybody everybody who am I

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 oh

Everybody everybody

Everybody wanna rule the world

There's a room where

The light won't find you

Holding hands while

The walls come tumbling down

Come tumbling down

When they do I'll be right behind you

So glad we almost made it

So sad we had to fade it

Everybody wants to rule the world

Yeah uh

As we move through time and space

And we all try to find our place

So many rulers

But who leads with grace

Yeah

Greet 'em with the freedom

When I see 'em yo I read 'em

Scriptures of humanity

The spirit's colosseum

Step in the arena my Medina

Yo my Mecca

Life is greener where there's texture

The meaning of the sceptre

God's rule is better

We move through your trepidation

It's a nation searching

For it's foundation

Mother Nature's relation

You see agitation

So many admirables with no admiration

This is verbal vaccination

How do you react to it

We needed Black Radio

For pure Black music

The path to movement

Show improve improvement

For our homes and domes

We all had to move with

The times as the world heals we climb

It's no back to normal

'Cause normal don't recline

I'm a portal for rhymes

Ask Shonda

I bridge tons of minds

So everyone can conquer

One rule one mantra

You got me then I got ya

The posture of a Rasta

I reconsider I re-evolve

I reconstruct

I see the I we in all

We got understanding

Then there's no need to fall

You know I got bars

So there's no need to brawl

Tryna change hearts like

The angels did Saul

And pierce the Devil with

The truth like Paul that's all

Welcome to your life mmm