World Leader Pretend (30 Days, 30 Songs)[Live]

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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Song Details

Duration
04:12
Key
4
Tempo
132 BPM

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