Would You Like To Rule the World

from Songs of the Anthropocene by Blue Dog

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About what would happen if you ruled the world

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Would you like to rule the world

Would you like to rule the world
And if you could how would you do it
Would it be a world where dreams come true
You will need a good disease
And after that you’ll need an army
Because the world is way too small for them and you

You can die inside from gonorrhoea
Or you can die for real in North Korea
What a world of great diversity
Were it only big enough for you and me

You can fly a plane to Greece
Watch some folks dance the sirtaki
Would that world fit your consumerist ideas
Pass out on the couch
Watching IED-ed Iraqis
Knowing that one day the world will be at peace

You can tweet about your holiday plans
Wih lithium from Afghanistan
Oh what will happen when these things run out
Will there be a single soul who hears you shout

There is beauty in a leaf of grass
There is beauty in the middle class
There is things and then there’s stuff
Always too much never enough
But in the end it’s nature’s way

You can judge or lose or win
But in the end it’s all just things
That come and go only you know
What’s right or wrong from day to day
And everything you know will fade away someday

SOLO

When the world becomes devoid of meaning
Remember there’s no one who’ll hear you screaming
Better learn to watch the world go by
See the beauty in your children’s eyes
And every night
Say goodbye

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from Songs of the Anthropocene, released February 18, 2018

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