Released: April 10, 1989
Songwriter: Simon Le Bon
Producer: Nile Rodgers Jonathan Elias Duran Duran
God created the world
The created the devil to blame for his mistakes
I closed the door of my hotel room behind me
It was like closing a chapter in the book of life
Outside, thirty floors below
I could hear the police using their sirens
Like wolve whistles to pick up young girls
On TV Oliver North his 15 minutes of fame
Ticking steadily away was being fuzzy about crucial events
Which had happened a year earlier- what a flake
But then who isn't
That was Reagan’s defense at least
The worst thing is how politics begins to leak into your life
Back in our innocence we used to simply stick two fingers up
Say "fuck the Queen" that was about all you had to say anyway
And then go back to the more important business of making music
So why was I sitting there feeling angry about covert operations
And illegal aid to the contras
I mean I'm not even American
But maybe we all are a little bit
And then I realized, it was just the thought
That in this particular democracy
And probably every other one in the world
There is somebody in power who thinks he is more right
Then all the people who put him there
All the people who for once in their lives took an interest
Outside the wind was howling the who-who's
From sympathy for the devil
Round and round the concrete hotel walls and corners
That was then- this isn’t
The created the devil to blame for his mistakes
I closed the door of my hotel room behind me
It was like closing a chapter in the book of life
Outside, thirty floors below
I could hear the police using their sirens
Like wolve whistles to pick up young girls
On TV Oliver North his 15 minutes of fame
Ticking steadily away was being fuzzy about crucial events
Which had happened a year earlier- what a flake
But then who isn't
That was Reagan’s defense at least
The worst thing is how politics begins to leak into your life
Back in our innocence we used to simply stick two fingers up
Say "fuck the Queen" that was about all you had to say anyway
And then go back to the more important business of making music
So why was I sitting there feeling angry about covert operations
And illegal aid to the contras
I mean I'm not even American
But maybe we all are a little bit
And then I realized, it was just the thought
That in this particular democracy
And probably every other one in the world
There is somebody in power who thinks he is more right
Then all the people who put him there
All the people who for once in their lives took an interest
Outside the wind was howling the who-who's
From sympathy for the devil
Round and round the concrete hotel walls and corners
That was then- this isn’t
more tracks from the album
The Singles 1986-1995
- Come Undone [Edit]
- Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)
- Skin Trade (Parisian Mix)
- Ordinary World [Single Version]
- Water Babies
- Yo Bad Azizi
- Skin Trade [Radio Cut]
- Ordinary World (Acoustic version)
- Violence of Summer (Love’s Taking Over) (The Dub Sound Of A Powerful Mix)
- This Is How A Road Gets Made
- I Don’t Want Your Love (7" mix)
- I Believe / All I Need To Know
- Decadance
- Meet El Presidente (7" Remix)
- Violence of Summer (Love’s Taking Over) (Rock mix)
- Hungry Like the Wolf [130 B.P.M. Version]
- Notorious (Live)
- Come Undone (12" mix - Comin’ Together)
- Throb
- All She Wants Is (US Master Mix)
- I Don’t Want Your Love (Big Mix)
- Palomino (Edit)
- God (London)
- Skin Trade (Stretch Mix)
- Notorious (Extended Mix)
- Notorious [45 Mix]
- Drug (It’s Just a State of Mind)
- The Krush Brothers LSD Edit
- All She Wants Is [45 Mix]
- Vertigo (Do the Demolition)
- My Antarctica
- All Along The Water
- Serious
- Violence Of Summer (Love’s Taking Over)
- Skin Trade
- Do You Believe in Shame?
- Come Undone
- Save a Prayer
- Girls on Film
- Is There Something I Should Know?
- Meet El Presidente
- Winter Marches On
- I Don’t Want Your Love
- Violence of Summer (Love’s Taking Over) (The Power Mix)
- Perfect Day (acoustic version)
- Violence of Summer (Love’s Taking Over) (The Story mix)
- The Reflex (7'’ version)
- Meet el Presidente (Meet el Beat)
- Too Much Information
- We Need You
- The Needle And The Damage Done
- Burning The Ground
- Perfect Day
- White Lines
- A View to a Kill
From the albums
- The Singles 1986-1995 (2004)
- Big Thing (2010) (2010)
Duran Duran popular songs
- Ordinary World
- Come Undone
- Hungry Like the Wolf
- Rio
- Save a Prayer
- Girls on Film
- The Reflex
- The Chauffeur
- Notorious
- A View to a Kill
- The Wild Boys
- New Moon on Monday
- Planet Earth
- Is There Something I Should Know?
- Union of the Snake
- New Religion
- Drug (It’s Just a State of Mind)
- Faster Than Light
- Hungry Like the Wolf (Night Version)
- American Science (Meltdown Dub)
- Girls on Film [Night Version]
- I Believe / All I Need To Know
- I Don’t Want Your Love (7" mix)
- This Is How A Road Gets Made